Sentences with phrase «film adaptations of her work»

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-...]