He also acted in
film adaptations of the works of James Joyce and Victor Hugo.
She didn't like many of
the film adaptations of her work.
Filmmaker Andy Serkis sticks much closer than Disney did to the darker tone of Rudyard Kipling's «The Jungle Book» with his upcoming
film adaptation of the work «Mowgli» opening this Fall.
Lemonwade the author of War Horse already has
another film adaptation of his work, lined up.
Not exact matches
Generally his
film work less successful than this TV
work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot
adaptation as well as
work on Masters
of Horror.
Film adaptations of Highsmith's
work include The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, and Todd Haynes» upcoming
film, Carol, starring Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett.
Her
work in the action - packed comic book
adaptation lead to a part in John McTiernan's Rollerball (2002), a remake
of the»70s
film about the futuristic world
of sports.
While at
work on Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Louiso moved to L.A. to further pursue his screen career, and, after appearing in such
films as Scent
of a Woman (1992), Apollo 13 (1995), and Jerry Maguire (1996), he had his most high profile role to date in Stephen Frears» widely celebrated
adaptation of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (2000).
Other
film work includes Major Stewart in Steven Spielberg's
film adaptation of WARHORSE and Peter Guillam alongside Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Colin Firth in Tomas Alfredson's TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, STARTER FOR 10, AMAZING GRACE, STUART: A LIFE BACKWARD, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and the role
of Paul Marshall in Joe Wright's Oscar nominated ATONEMENT.
Carrie is a
film adaptation of Stephen King's
work, which got turned into a cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed by Brain De Palma.
The Italian actor - turned - director fails to draw anything substantial out
of his stars Penelope Cruz (who he
worked with on his previous
film, Don't Move, another
adaptation of a Mazzantini novel) and Emile Hirsch, though the unbelievably phony dialog would stumble up even the best
of thesps.
After six years
working on First Australians, it is not hard to imagine why, in 2009, Perkins embarked on the
adaptation to
film of Jimmy Chi's 1990s stage musical hit Bran Nue Dae.
This entire project has my full attention: Pet Sematary is my favorite Stephen King novel, and while the 1989
film was a pretty solid
adaptation (King wrote the script himself), there are a lot
of details that were left out
of the
film that could
work perfectly in a new take on the material.
Ten years later,
working from an
adaptation of the caper novel by W.R. Burnett scripted in collaboration with the author, he essentially launched the heist
film as a genre
of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.
A sports bio-pic about one
of the epic Tennis rivalries that fails to
work as either a sports
film, or a proper
adaptation of a real life event.
Those
film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen
work in such miniseries as Winds
of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television
adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).
With so many
adaptations of the
works of Stephen King already made - and many more just on the horizon - it's refreshing to see a
film based on his
works sticking so closely to the book.
Though he once described his screenplays as more craft than art, Stoppard's literate
film adaptations of various
works by major authors have matched him with some
of the most esteemed directors in international cinema, beginning with Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman in 1975.
In talking about the
film adaptation of the iconic TV soap opera that was in class all its own, Burton stated he was a fan
of the show and had a «strange love
of weird cultural phenoms» that he shared with Johnny Depp, with whom he had
worked with on eight
films.
Director Richard Ayoade «s new
film is an
adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky «s «The Double `, starring Jesse Eisenberg (who
worked with Allen on «To Rome with Love «-RRB-.
Beck has
worked on
film adaptations of comic books before, such as Red and Elektra.
That trailer was filled with over-expository moments and scenes that made the
film look like a remake
of Predator rather than an
adaptation of VanderMeer's
work.
But Heyman hasn't forgotten the other highly anticipated fan project he's
working on, namely Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first Harry Potter
film not be a direct
adaptation of one
of the books, and the first to have a screenplay written by J.K. Rowling herself.
With a few exceptions — the Roald Dahl
adaptation The Witches (1990), or the non-Vietnam War Joseph Conrad
adaptation Heart
of Darkness (1993)-- the subsequent
films failed to pierce public consciousness as keenly as his earlier
works.
The
works of Alexandre Dumas have not fared well in recent
film adaptations.
«That doesn't really bother me,» he said last week by phone from New York, where he is
working on the
film adaptation of the bestselling novel «The Goldfinch.»
I didn't re-read the book immediately before seeing the
film, but I'm certain that I couldn't imagine a better
adaptation of Martel's
work.
It has been a banner year for smart and fun comic book movie
adaptations, and the reason those three
films worked as well as they did is they had a sly sense
of humor and didn't take themselves so deadly seriously as Justice League does.
While I wouldn't mind playing with some
of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an
adaptation of a beloved
work that has enchanted many millions
of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind
of fan
film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all
of the stuff not from the writings
of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.
This newly pieced together version
of Clive Barker's own
adaptation of his book Cabal, created from footage found on a VHS
work print, the «Cabal Cut»
of Nightbreed is not quite a «lost masterpiece» but it's interesting to see the painstaking
work gone into restoring the
film to what more closely resembles Barker's vision.
The original script draft was co-penned by Guillermo del Toro shortly after he made Pan's Labyrinth nine years ago, but the project was put on hold while del Toro
worked on a couple
films (Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim), a TV series (The Strain), an At the Mountains
of Madness
adaptation that stalled in pre-production, and The Hobbit before Peter Jackson took over... among other things, that is.
Haynes»
film adaptation is more explicit about the possibility
of a future between Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) and Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), who meet in the department store where Therese
works.
The company is clearly happy with Schwentke's
work on Insurgent — one
of the first stills from the
film is lurking above, showing Four (Theo James), Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Caleb (Ansel Elgort) on the run — and is eager for him to pull off a similar trick to Francis Lawrence, who shot T ** he Hunger Games: Catching Fire plus both chunks
of the Mockingjay **
adaptation, the first
of which is currently soaring at the box office.
But clearly my favorite thing about the
film is that it is based off
of William Shakespeare «s, The Taming
of the Schrew, and might just be one
of the most successful modern
adaptations of Shakespeare's
work.
Many
of his bestselling
works have inspired numerous
film and television
adaptations.
Assassin's Creed only added to another failed video - game
adaptation and his
work with Ridley Scott on Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and The Counselor also failed to impress (although, I was admittedly one
of the few admirers
of the latter
film).
Then, we
work through our feelings about Ava DuVernay's
film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's children's classic, A Wrinkle in Time and discover that maybe how you feel about this movie depends on how in touch you are with your -LSB-...]
Though as early as 1996 she was reportedly at
work on a
film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price
of Salt, later adapted by Todd Haynes into 2015's Carol, Macdonald has
worked exclusively in television ever since, and has been back in view lately for directing the acclaimed new miniseries
adaptation of Howards End, scripted by Kenneth Lonergan.
He won strong reviews for his unsettling literary
adaptations Young Adam (2003) and Asylum (2005), but since the limited release
of the latter, his
work has gone unnoticed, despite the fact he's gotten more adventurous with each
film.
Jenkins, who is now
working on high - profile
adaptations of books by James Baldwin and Colson Whitehead, will return to Telluride this year as its short -
film programmer.
The movie has been adapted from the E. M. Forster novel by three filmmakers who have specialized recently in
film adaptations of literary
works: director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Wingard is currently
working through post-production on his next
film «Death Note,» an
adaptation of the manga series by Tsugumi Ohba.
Production designer Alice Normington has
worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie
adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a
film about the early feminist movement in London.
Even balancing a jarring, time - hopping narrative, the
film manages to
work as a stellar action movie
of the time, while serving as a solid comic book
adaptation in its own right.
I'm still
working through this in my head, too, but there's some point at which a
film becomes more iconic than the book it's based on and any future
adaptations of the book can't escape that.
«James Franco has revealed that he's
working on a
film adaptation of James Ellroy's «American Tabloid».
The 1991
film, one
of many
adaptations over the centuries
of the old, dark fairy tale,
worked wonderfully because it was pure Broadway, written for the screen, blending comedy and romance and magic and just enough snark in the margins.
Coming up this month are
films like «Selma,» the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic; new
work from Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage; Reese Witherspoon in her most transformative role to date; a stage - to - screen
adaptation of one
of the theater's most beloved composers and lyricists; and a contemporary reboot to a musical classic.
That's because the Shakespeare and Milton
work in question are two big budget studio
films with CGI - loving directors at the helm, and in the former's case it's more
of an unraveling
of the lore surrounding William Shakespeare than an
adaptation.
From almost the moment
film was invented,
adaptations of Charles Dickens's
work have permeated the -LSB-...]