Sentences with phrase «novel take place a year»

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Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

A long - unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still - controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe.

Based on Alexandre Dumas's novel Twenty Years Later, the film takes place (appropriately enough) two decades after the death of Milady de Winter.

Based on the novel by Kevin Powers and a screenplay signed by R.F.I. Porto and David Lowery (yes that David Lowery), principal photography on The Yellow Bird took place in Morocco and wrapped in January this year.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

Based on Seth Grahame - Smith's best - selling mash - up novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (out Feb. 5) recounts the unlikely romance between Lizzy (Lily James) and the haughty Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), but the courtship takes place in a 19th - century English countryside where the «sorry stricken» — as the zombies are called in the book — have been roaming for more than 70 years, victims of a mysterious plague.

Based on the Joyce Maynard novel of the same name, the film takes place over the course of a Labor Day weekend and tells the story of a 13 - year - old boy who convinces his reclusive mother to take in a drifter, who turns out to be an escaped convict on the run.

It's surprising that Clowes (who adapted his own graphic novel, expanding it into a story that takes place over years instead of the graphic novel's single day) and director Craig Johnson chose to soften the book's harsher edge, as it's clear that Harrelson — obviously enjoying himself here — could have easily handled a darker character arc.

Lehane wrote an epic novel that includes Prohibition, Irish & Italian mobs, racism, religious fanaticism, addiction, and much more, taking place over years of American history.

By the time the 38 - year - old actor - turned - writer / director brought the author's 1996 historical novel Alias Grace to the small screen — the six - hour miniseries began streaming on Netflix in early November — she had no idea she'd end up discussing the very same issues taking place in the 21st century.

This literary event — taking place 55 years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird and about six months after Facing History published Teaching Mockingbird, its study guide to the novel — comes at a time when we have been diving deep into the themes of Lee's classic novel, both as a staff and with educators around the world.

Doig's latest historical novel set in the fictional Two Medicine Country in northern Montana stars an affable bartender and his precocious 12 - year - old son, whose coming - of - age takes place in a saloon.

Just when 12 - year - old Bea feels as though she's lost her place in the world, a grandmother she barely knows takes her on the road trip of a lifetime in Rebecca Behren's latest historical novel, The Last Grand Adventure.

National Novel Writing Month takes place every November, and has done so with write - ins, community support forums, local chapters and challenges for many years.

This novel takes place 10 years after the classic Sweet Valley High series ended.

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard takes place two years after we first meet Peter Nimble in Auxier's debut novel, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.

The best scenes in the novel actually take place in Maine, where Alice's husband, Daniel, won a cottage in a bet 60 years before.

In this novel a kidnapped and sexually abused 15 - year - old, now too mature for her abuser, is required to look for another young girl to take her place.

Most small publishers take one year to get a book from the original contract to a published novel, excluding the time it takes to find that publisher in the first place.

My four novels on Africa explore the changes taking place in the lives of girls and women in the past forty years in an informative and entertaining fiction genre.

The novel takes place over the course of a year, opening with the break - up of the central relationship, and concluding on what was to be their wedding day.

The KDP Select giveaway for the novel took place almost a year after the short - story collection was released.

Written by Urban Waite, the novel acts as a prequel taking place a few years prior to the upcoming Far Read More...

Once again, this twelfth part of the exhibition cycle is based on Robert Musil «s novel, The Man without Qualities, which takes place in the year 1913.