Sentences with phrase «television adaptations of the novels»
Recently she has been remarkably productive; her run of projects includes the upcoming television adaptations of the novels «Dietland» and «Sharp Objects.»
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For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.
In a recent article in the «New York Review of Books» on the television and stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel's historical novels «Wolf Hall» and «Bring up the Bodies,» the Irish critic Fintan O'Toole tries to explain the present popularity of a story about Henry VIII's obscure....
A once - contented wife struggles to maintain her dignity when her husband abandons her for a younger woman in longtime television director Christopher Menaul's adaptation of Stevie Davies» acclaimed novel.
Lewis starred as Henry VIII opposite Mark Rylance in WOLF HALL, the critically acclaimed BBC Two / Masterpiece Theater six - part television miniseries adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker - Prize winning novels, directed by BAFTA - winning Peter Kosminsky.
Grainger was also recognized for her character of Charlie Cooper in a one - off television adaptation of Kate Long's novel THE BAD MOTHER»S HANDBOOK; Grainger starred opposite Catherine Tate, Anne Reid, and Robert Pattinson in this popular comedy drama.
Filmed for British television in 1991, Black Velvet Gown is a two - part adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel.
Joanne Whalley was born in Manchester, England and became interested in acting at an early age, appearing in small television roles including the television adaptation of JOBY, a novel by Stan Barstow, and A QUIET LIFE, about writer Beryl Bainbridge.
Los Angeles, CA (June 01, 2017)-- HBO has made a development deal for Annapurna Television's limited series adaptation of Maria Semple's bestselling novel, «Today Will Be Different», it was announced today.
This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.
If the experience of reading Collins's novel is one of being inside a horrifyingly brutal reality television show, the experience the film adaptation offers is one more akin to watching one, and its success depends on our awareness of this relatively new medium as well as our willingness to critique it.
Based on the cult novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by English author Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), the BBC America television adaptation has reportedly cast Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings) in a key role.
That his nickname is thought to originate from a copy of Frederick Forsyth's novel «The Day of the Jackal» is apt, as popular culture has leapt upon him as a subject in everything from Robert Ludlum's Bourne Trilogy (as seen in the TV adaptations, but not the films) to comedic television series Whoops Apocalypse (with Seinfeld «s Michael Richards satirising his public persona).
The late Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel provides the groundwork for this dramedy adaptation starring Paul Giamatti (Fred Claus, The Nanny Diaries) as the titular Montreal television producer Barney Panofsky, a man who has suffered through one tragic marriage with a free - spirited young woman in Italy (Lefevre, Twilight) who turns up carrying another man's child only to get himself into another loveless one with a well - to - do Jewish - American princess (Driver, Ella Enchanted), while he only has eyes for a woman he barely knows in another part of the country (Pike, Surrogates).
He was Saoirse Ronan's love interest Eddie in How I Live Now, the 2013 film version of Meg Rosoff's novel, and played the lead role in Sadie Jones» television adaptation of her own novel The Outcast.
HBO acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to the upcoming television adaptation of the «Harry Potter» author's crime novels.
ABC Family has debuted the first trailer for «Shadowhunters,» the television adaptation of Cassandra Clare's bestselling «Mortal Instruments» novels.
As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.
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.
«The 100» actor will star in the upcoming television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling fantasy novel.
The «Mad Men» alum will star as the protagonist in Hulu's television adaptation of Margret Atwood's classic novel, which will be penned by «The 100's» Bruce Miller.
In addition, Warner Bros. will serve as the worldwide TV distributor (excluding the U.K.) of J.K. Rowling's upcoming television adaptation for the BBC of «The Casual Vacancy,» her best - selling first novel aimed at adult audiences.
While the television show is a gritty adaptation of «The Walking Dead» graphic novels, the games are an original story set in the same zombie - infested world.