Sentences with phrase «screen adaptation of his work»

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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).

One of the better big screen adaptations of a small screen television show, The Addams Family may not be completely faithful in its adherence to the characters and humor of the TV show, but it does work well in terms of entertaining on its own terms.

Harry Potter director David Yates's recent announcement that he's working on a big - screen adaptation of Doctor Who is sounding more and more like wishful thinking on Yates's part than something that will, you know, actually ever happen.

The idea of an U.N.C.L.E. adaptation now feels as old as the source material itself: A big - screen version has been in the works since the»90s, attached at various times to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh and reportedly starring every white guy to grace the pages of People in the past two decades (including Don Draper himself, Jon Hamm.)

Macbeth director Justin Kurzel is reteaming with star Michael Fassbender for the big screen adaptation of Assassin's Creed, and the caliber of talent involved has many hoping this really will be the video game movie that actually works for gamers and movie lovers.

Entering the awards season race with their finest work yet in «Fences,» the stage - to - screen adaptation of August Wilson's classic play, Washington and Davis have one thing on their mind: craft.

There's a reason more established directors stay away — Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) saw his reputation permanently dinged by the box - office failure of Prince of Persia, a Disney adaptation of a famed platform game, while Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) took on the mighty task of adapting Warcraft to the screen and was greeted by punishing reviews for his years of work.

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).

Disney has been remaking their animated classics for the screen over the past few years with the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and The Jungle Book (they did not produce either live action version of Snow White but adaptations of Aladdin, Dumbo, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Mulan, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and The Sword in the Stone are in the works).

The Seagull: There's an awful lot to admire in Michael Mayer's adaptation of the Chekhov classic — particularly some exquisite work from Corey Stoll and Elisabeth Moss — but the play still resists the screen, and Billy Howle's Konstantin is a mess of poor choices.

I'm not sure if the extraordinary TV adaptation of Jake Arnott's «The Long Firm» ever made it onto US screens, but Penhall's achievement there in filleting and reimagining Arnott's (very dense) work was amazing.

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis»

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis «best - selling book about the devastating financial collapse of the mid-aughts.

The Stranger / Lo straniero Luchino Visconti, Italy / France / Algeria, 1967, 35 mm, 104m French and Italian with English subtitles Visconti's shattering adaptation of Albert Camus's landmark work of existential humanism brilliantly translates the novel to the screen.

In a drastic, surprisingly smooth departure from his typical work directing major studio comedies, Adam McKay tackles the dense subject matter of The Big Short, a screen adaptation of Michael Lewis «best - selling book about the devastating financial collapse of the...

Amongst the many difficulties that accompany screen adaptations of classic literary works is the overwhelming burden of historical comparisons.

Universal Pictures and Working Title have released the first poster for The Snowman, the upcoming big screen adaptation of Jo Nesbo's crime novel, which stars Michael Fassbender as Detective Harry Hole as he investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous - looking snowman.

Considering the less than stellar track record of Stephen King adaptations (including the recently released monumental failure that is The Dark Tower), it's pleasant to report that director Andy Muschietti's (Mama) stab at one of the writer's most revered works of art doesn't float like a lifeless corpse down in Pennywise's sewer lair, but instead propels forward with frightful momentum and probably the best character work that could be done when bringing such a lengthy and detailed story to the silver screen.

His animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly was, to my mind, the most successful translation yet of Dick's work to the screen.

The British scribe has largely been responsible for many UK miniseries and television series, working on Skins, Castoffs, The Fades, This is England, Glue, National Treasure and the upcoming small screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.

Here, she talks about her work as Jo in Tyler Perry's screen adaptation of For Colored Girls, an ensemble drama co-starring Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine and Phylicia Rashad.

After bringing the warped and surreal works of Charlie Kaufman's «Being John Malkovich» and «Adaptation» to the screen, director Spike Jonze carved himself a reputation for the off - beat.

When: October 28th Why: A big screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's «lost novel» has been in the works for over a decade now, but it wasn't until two years ago when the project finally went into production, only to be shelved long enough for Thompson's death to prevent him from seeing the final product.

I haven't read the novels (I've paged through some of «Dragon Tattoo» in English), but even fans I've talked to don't make any claims for Larsson as a great writer (albeit in translation), and the Swedish movie version struck me as little more than a straightforward work of adaptation: «OK, we're going to take this story and put it on the screen.»

The popular actor has the screen adaptation of the play «Fences» in the works with Viola Davis, as well as the recently announced sequel to «The Equalizer.»

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.

They understand why recent Marvel adaptations for the big screen have worked and recent DC adaptations have not: Superheroes need to have a sense of humor — ideally, leavened with a little irony — about life in general and occasionally about themselves.

It took more than 25 years for Gerald's Game, one of Steven King's lesser known works, to find a silver screen adaptation and thankfully Mike Flanagan does a pitch perfect job of translating the sex game gone horrible wrong into a dread - inducing waking nightmare.

Last week it was announced that Edgar Wright and Johnny Depp are working on a movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk, and now The Guardian is reporting that four of the acclaimed writer's short stories are coming to the small screen.

The first official review of Cormac McCarthy's big screen adaptation of The Road has been released, full of praise for the soul - crushing work of John Hillcoat and Viggo Mortensen.

A movie musical based on a stage musical built on pre-existing music certainly has some of its work done for it right from the point of cinematic conception, but even with such a head start, Clint Eastwood still applies enough tender, heartfelt identity to his adaptation, Jersey Boys, to make the screen version a touching endeavor.

With its mix of comedy and horror, it's a work ripe for the big screen, and writer / director Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down,, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud) take promises to be a rollicking adaptation.

We know that 20th Century Fox is working on a big screen adaptation of The New Mutants from director Josh Boone (The Fault in our Stars), but not much concrete information has been announced.

Graeme Robertson on whether The Last of Us needs a film adaptation... Video game adaptations are nothing new; with Hollywood in its infinite wisdom thinking that whatever works on the games console, must surely work on the big screen, churning out video game movie after video game movie.

What You Need To Know: Arguably the most famous scientist in the world, Stephen Hawking's story has been brought to the screen before (Benedict Cumberbatch played him in a television film a decade ago), but «The Theory Of Everything» marks the first time the story's made it to the big screen, and has some hefty names behind it: an adaptation of Hawking's ex-wife Jane's memoirs «Travelling To Infinity,» it's backed by «Atonement» producers Working Title and is helmed by Oscar - winning «Man On Wire» and «Shadow Dancer» helmer James MarsOf Everything» marks the first time the story's made it to the big screen, and has some hefty names behind it: an adaptation of Hawking's ex-wife Jane's memoirs «Travelling To Infinity,» it's backed by «Atonement» producers Working Title and is helmed by Oscar - winning «Man On Wire» and «Shadow Dancer» helmer James Marsof Hawking's ex-wife Jane's memoirs «Travelling To Infinity,» it's backed by «Atonement» producers Working Title and is helmed by Oscar - winning «Man On Wire» and «Shadow Dancer» helmer James Marsh.

The 12 Years A Slave star has already signed up for the big screen version of the best - selling computer game series and now it seems filmmaker Justin - who recently worked with the actor on an adaptation of Macbeth - might be getting on board.

James is currently at work on another novel, as well as collaborating on the much - anticipated 50 Shades of Grey screen adaptation.

First conceived way back in 2008, only one short year after the release of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on PS3, a big - screen adaptation of Naughty Dog's iconic action - adventure series has been in the works for almost a decade now, and though stuck in development hell for much of that time, with constant fundamental changes delaying the project on numerous occasions, the film's survival has never really felt in doubt.

First conceived way back in 2008, only one short year after the release of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on PS3, a big screen adaptation of Naughty Dog's iconic action - adventure series has been in the works for almost a decade now.

Deadline is reporting that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. writer and producer Rafe Judkins has signed on to work on the script for the long - gestating big screen adaptation of the Uncharted video game series.

The BBC and Mammoth Screen studios (which is also working on a new BBC adaptation of H.G. Wells» Victorian - set novel The War of the Worlds), picked up the adaptation in 2015, with screenwriter Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams) attached to write.