Sentences with phrase «second adaptation»

Channel 4's second adaptation of Chris Mullin's 1982 novel A Very British Coup (the first, which kept the book's title, aired in 1988), «Secret State» is very driven by plot.

ORIGINAL SIN (Grade: D): Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie are the elements of this lifeless second adaptation (after Francois Truffaut's 1969 «Mississippi Mermaid») of Cornell Woolich's novel of obsessive love, «Waltz Into Darkness,» with the action transplanted to Colonial Cuba.

This is Anderson's second adaptation after There Will Be Blood but his approach to the source material is vastly different from the previous feature.

Casino (Martin Scorsese, 1995) Martin Scorsese's second adaptation of a Nicholas Pileggi book, Casino is often overlooked as a lesser iteration of the first, 1990's Goodfellas.

This 2010 western is the second adaptation of a 1968 novel by the same name and was previously filmed by John Wayne in 1969.

It's the second adaptation of the book.

This 2008 filming marks the second adaptation of Waugh's novel.

2013's Carrie is the second adaptation of the Stephen King's first novel, published in 1974, though it is not really an adaptation so much as a remake of the campy but entertaining 1976 Brian De Palma film.

The source material is nothing to write home about, and Howard's second adaptation of a Dan Brown novel (which was actually published before «The Da Vinci Code») fails to elevate it.

The second adaptation of A.J. Quinnell's novel (the first starred Scott Glenn and Joe Pesci), Man On Fire casts a largely wasted Denzel Washington as a repressed alcoholic and Bible - reading killing machine hired as a bodyguard for Dakota Fanning, the most creepily precocious child star this side of Haley Joel Osment.

The second adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about a populist - leaning stump - thumper modeled after Huey Long, the film garnered attention first for its sterling cast and Tiffany pedigree, then for its sudden disappearance from last year's Oscar slate, only to appear now, without fanfare (save a gala screening at last week's TIFF), in the middle of what's traditionally a dumping ground for dead weight.

Ben Affleck's adaptation of «Live By Night» will be his second adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel after Affleck's 2007 film «Gone Baby Gone.»

Tom Ripley is the hero of a series of novels from famed author Patricia Highsmith, and this film is the second adaptation (after Rene Clement's 1960 Purple Noon starring Alain Delon) of the first of them.

Dimension Television is developing a second adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 horror novella, this time for TV.

Whilst Hollywood wastes everyone's (including David Fincher's) time with its own version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sweden's been busy, pumping out the second adaptation of Stieg Larsson's «Millennium Trilogy» in the same year as the first.

His fifth feature film is an adaptation from a graphic novel — his second adaptation.

Jack Reacher Never Go Back review: Tom Cruise returns in the second adaptation from Lee Child's much - loved bestsellers.

Aided by the marvelous, impressionist - styled images of cinematographer Nestor Almendros and a swooning score by Georges Delerue, François Truffaut transforms his second adaptation of a novel by Henri - Pierre Roché (author of Jules and Jim) into an overwhelming sensory experience.

It's the second adaptation of the novel by Ray Bradbury, after the one made by François Truffaut.

The classic black and white A Place in the Sun was adapted from the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, the second adaptation of the same novel (after the film titled An American Tragedy in 1931).

«Judgement is coming» declares the marketing materials for Dredd, yet given the film's status as the second adaptation of the titular law enforcement officer, many had already formed their opinion.

It will be the screenwriter's second adaptation of a DC comic book and third movie for Warner Brothers

The miniseries marks the second adaptation of Mildred Pierce.

This film was the second adaptation of Charles Portis's 1968 novel, following the beloved original, released only a year after the book's publication.

The second adaptation we made to the video annotation method was using experts» observations of the same video segments as feedback to learners.