Sentences with phrase «novel adaptation»
"Novel adaptation" refers to the process of turning a written book, known as a novel, into a different medium such as a movie, TV show, or play. It involves taking the story, characters, and themes from the book and translating them into a new format while staying true to the original source material. Full definition
If this text is a classic, there are many graphic novel adaptations of classics out there.
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(What would Mark Twain say about a French - produced, manga - influenced graphic novel adaptation of Tom Sawyer?)
Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule of YA novel adaptations, horror, and other genre films suggests that the studio is going to start churning out critically praised films, but with another Hunger Games installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.
Certain filmgoers might think concern over the fate of Hoffman's work in the young adult novel adaptation series was unnecessary, given the breadth of the fan - favorite performer's career in movies and on stage; yet, Hoffman was a standout in the well - received second installment, Catching Fire, and many fans (young and old) were eager to see him return in the two remaining sequels.
She scored her latest Oscar nomination for novel adaptation Brooklyn, and Saoirse Ronan is lining up another film based on a book for a future project.
I am not a fan of most movie musicals, because, like novel adaptations, they generally can not capture the true essence of an original work of art.
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The Stephen King novel adaptation stars the 16 - year - old «Kick Ass» star as the titular telekinetic who unleashes years of pent - up rage on her abusive mom (Julianne Moore) and teasing peers
Moving away from dramas inspired by disturbing real - life incidents; Lionsgate has set the crime / comedy Mortedcai to hit U.S. theaters on February 6th, 2015, where the film will open against the YA fantasy novel adaptation Seventh Son and Liam Neeson's crime drama Run All Night.
Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.
Koepp, best known for writing blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Spider - Man, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, previously directed Depp in the Stephen King novel adaptation Secret Window.
Actually, this romance novel adaptation about a country singer (Alex Roe) returning to the jilted ex (Jessica Rothe) who's raising the daughter (Abby Ryder Fortson) he never knew they had doesn't seem like it'll end with anyone dead or turned into a ghost.
Buoyed by a boatload of pre-release publicity — including a major push at San Diego's ComiCon — the graphic novel adaptation only earned $ 31M this summer.
The upcoming graphic novel adaptation sees Charlize Theron lead the cast as a lethal MI - 6 assassin alongside James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, and Toby Jones; -LSB-...]
Graphic novel adaptation I Kill Giants takes a step closer to release through the launch of its first full trailer.
Without their support and protection, she needs to find an item called the Curse Seed to restore their memories and get this visual novel adaptation back on track.
Their conclusions challenge a classic theory, which links the evolutionary success of horses to several novel adaptations in response to the spread of grasslands around 18 million years ago.
The panel began with the announcement of two new novel adaptations, joining other titles such as Witch & Wizard and Soulless.
Like most of the light novel adaptations from Yen lately, I will probably be more likely to read the manga over the light novel, unless the manga really impresses.
This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.
Last year, the actor played supporting Vampire hunter Henry Sturges in the genre - bending novel adaptation Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - one of the bright spots in a film that fell short of finding the same success as its source material.
On the bright side, at least the makers of «The Maze Runner» series learned a lesson from what happened with the last movie in the «Divergent» series, in which we're not getting a part 2 to finish it off, and they broke YA novel adaptation tradition by making just one movie out of the final book.
Always a master at handling ominous material, 20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for David Fincher's Gone Girl.The highly anticipated novel adaptation stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike
EXCLUSIVE: Lady Bird and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising star Beanie Feldstein has been set for the title role in Caitlin Moran novel adaptation How To Build A Girl, which Protagonist is launching world sales on in Cannes.
You think of all those French New Wave films by Truffaut and Godard, they were all dime - store novel adaptations that felt nothing like the source.
This graphic novel adaptation displays an attractive visual flair along with an 80's best - of soundtrack that keeps your eyes from wandering to far from the screen although there's no substance beneath its neon portrait.
He will also star in Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, which will close the Toronto film festival in September; romantic war drama Suite Francaise; and novel adaptation Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Juno Temple, Michael Sheen and Carey Mulligan.
Portman, as mentioned, is circling Garland's novel adaptation Annihilation.
While it was the latest YA novel adaptation at a time when they seemed to be arriving on a regularly scheduled basis, having a film so stripped down and primal made it more worthwhile as an action - horror hybrid than a world - building first chapter of a more extensive series.
As Maddy, a teen who can't leave her home ever due to illness, in this teen novel adaptation, she's quite engaging.
Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for the upcoming graphic novel adaptation Atomic Blonde.
While at one point it looked like Jennifer Lawrence would star in novel adaptation Burial Rites for Hunger Games director Gary Ross, the film is actually going with Call Me By Your Name's Luca Guadagnino.
«Kingsman: The Golden Circle» Fox will also flaunt «Kingsman: The Golden Circle,» the graphic novel adaptation slated for release this September.
Both YA novel adaptations feature up - and - coming whipper - snappers as the leads, with a supporting cast rounded out by more seasoned and accomplished veteran actors / actresses.
However, the Cassandra Clare YA novel adaptation looks solid, if only because it features a female protagonist whose primary motivation is NOT romance (looking at you, Beautiful Creatures and The Host).
After a year of underwhelming performers and outright box office failures in the Young Adult novel adaptation field, from the The Host to Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments, studios must be breathing a sigh of relief with the absolute certainty of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's chances of success.
We had an opportunity to sit down with two of the stars of the Veronica Roth novel adaptation, Maggie Q, who plays shadowy tattoo artist Tori, and Mekhi Phifer, who dons a badass black jacket as Max, the leader of Dauntless, one of five factions that make up the world of Divergent.
With constant Youth novel adaptations, it is hard to find a good dystopia movie these days.
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In the immediate term, cinemas look set for another relatively quiet weekend, with Tom Hardy in thriller novel adaptation Child 44 leading the way among newcomers.
He's hard at work on the James Baldwin novel adaptation «If Beale Street Could Talk,» which is in production in New York City, and he's just added a new project to helm.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure sees franchise director Wes Ball close the circle that began with his first instalment of the James Dashner novel adaptations.
«Our results indicate that novel adaptations allowing the early ancestors of modern dogs to thrive on a diet rich in starch, relative to the carnivorous diet of wolves, constituted a crucial step in the early domestication of dogs.»
- Written by Mie Takase, who has written other novel adaptations of video games such as Fire Emblem, Persona, Kirby and others
12 Monkeys is their most popular, but they have also produced a number of classic novel adaptations that will be coming to the small screen, including Childhood's End, 3001: The Final Odyssey, and Old Man's War.
I am not a fan of most movie musicals, because, like novel adaptations, they generally can not capture the
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Director: Josh Boone Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Willem Dafoe Don't let the phrase «young adult novel adaptation» turn you away.
because all but one are British Amicus productions, this film was a surprise success and lead to the sequel plus another Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel adaptation.