Sentences with phrase «write about adaptations»

This movie camera shaped reading response project will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to write about adaptations that they have to make to their books in order to make a film version of the novel.

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Charles Hartshorne has written extensively about the merits of this philosophical position, and a loose adaptation of his ideas on its advantages may be set forth in the following short list: 17

I thought you might like to know that I made an adaptation of your green and black forest smoothie which I have written about on my blog (with a link back to your original recipe).

Since writing about the ketogenic diet, I received a slew of inquiries on the «how - to's,» and the process of keto - adaptation.

Not only does it illuminate the evolutionary icon most people think of as A Beard, it's arguably the most insightful film about writing since Adaptation.

Mayer and screenwriter Stephen Karam (normally a playwright, who previously wrote a stage adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard) open the movie with a flash - forward to events that occur about 2/3 of the way through the story, and when that moment arrives, they play it again, without variation.

«There's been a lot of criticism from foreign fans about the casting of Scarlett Johansson as Motoko Kusanagi in the movie adaptation of Ghost in the Shell,» wrote another.

ADAPTATION Director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the team who brought you «Being John Malkovich,» have created a movie about the writing of a movie.

Roger Michell wrote his adaptation for the latest big screen version of My Cousin Rachel about two years ago.

Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi were set to write the script shortly thereafter, with Adam McKay sought to direct back in 2010, but that was the last we heard about the movie adaptation.

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William Monahan wrote the screenplay adaptation based on Jon Roberts and Evan Wright's book about a New York gangster who smuggled guns and drugs for the CIA.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 7, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Ides of March (R for pervasive profanity) George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play «Farragut North,» a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

As of this writing, Lindelof has neither denied nor confirmed his involvement in the project but he has been vocal about wanting to be part of it, and that he wants a close adaptation of the comic book.

In addition, they talked about how they got involved in The Flash movie, Flashpoint, working in the Hasbro writers room on projects like M.A.S.K. and Rom, and how they're currently writing and producing an adaptation of The Vacation Guide to the Solar System which is a science - based family adventure movie in the tone of Jurassic Park.

ADAPTATION is written by Charlie Kaufman and his imaginary brother, Donald Kaufman, and selfishly, it's about the writers as well.

First, a word about the music: The songs are by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a fast - rising team who wrote lyrics for the tunes in La La Land; they composed the charmingly retro score for the musical adaptation of A Christmas Story and penned the affecting emo balladry in the Tony - winning Broadway smash, Dear Evan Hansen.

I now write about films, books and adaptations and am an aspiring novelist with a tendency to focus on the morbid side of life...

In this week's special second segment, Whit Stillman talks with FC contributor Nick Pinkerton about his new film, Love & Friendship, adaptation, and the finer points of writing a novel.

The silver lining here might be that the film so clearly lays bare the problems inherent in eliminating the controller from the video game equation that Hollywood might finally think twice about spending $ 100 million plus on thinly - written adaptations of thinly - written games.

So Adaptation is about Kaufman writing the adaptation of The OrcAdaptation is about Kaufman writing the adaptation of The Orcadaptation of The Orchid Thief.

Written by Matt Charman and directed by Kevin MacDonald, «Strange New Things» is an adaptation of Michel Faber's «The Book of Strange New Things,» a novel about an English man of faith who ends up also being a man in space; Brian Eno is providing the score.

Abi Morgan -LRB-» Shame») will write the script, and given her previous credits it'd suggest this won't be a spoof or anything less than a straight - up adaptation, but Sony's not talking yet so until they do let's remain hopeful that Green's wasn't high on dish washing detergent and blindfolded into picking his next project from a bucket of bobbing apples when this came about.

But it hasn't kept Ellis from his copy of Final Draft: he was hired in 2009 to write «The Golden Suicides,» an adaptation of a Vanity Fair article by Nancy Jo Sales about the mysterious suicides of artists Jeremy Blake, who'd collaborated with the likes of Beck and Paul Thomas Anderson, and Theresa Duncan, who killed themselves after allegedly being harassed by Scientologists.

And after that, Pearce seems to have booked gig after gig: he's penning an adaptation of DC Comics ««The Mighty,» about a cop who takes on a superhero, for Paramount; he was picked for another huge franchise with «Sherlock Holmes 3» (his Twitter by - line wryly comments «I mostly write threequels») and he's got an original action - comedy in the works too, «Secretaries Day,» to be directed by «Easy A» and «Friends With Benefits» helmer Will Gluck.

Deadline reports Christine Boylan has been hired to write the comic book adaptation about a cop who develops regenerative superpowers, starring Jessica Chastain.

Preminger's last film — a faithful adaptation of Graham Greene's dark, knowing novel about a British defector / putative spy (Nicol Williamson)-- has a good, smart script, inspired by the Kim Philby case, written by playwright Tom Stoppard.

The Scottish film - maker Lynne Ramsay will write and direct the film adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver's Orange Prize - winning novel set in the aftermath of a high school massacre.

Looking to resuscitate his career on the boards of Broadway, he has used the remainder of his Hollywood wealth to write, direct and star in an adaptation of Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

We've been writing about a potential Robotech movie since 2007, when Tobey Maguire was planning to produce a big screen adaptation of the classic anime series.

Higher Level texts about health and fitness, followed by comprehension, summarising, «find the phrase», and adaptation exercises plus a writing task to wrap it up.

Encourage students to work what they know about the science of animal adaptation into their writing.

Confirming comments include, «Students were highly engaged in the box analysis and provided some of the best writing we had seen from this class,» and «There was quite a debate about whether education, flowers, and clothes were a need, linked their discussion to math and adaptation.»

The New York Times bestselling author of The Martian dropped by The Writer Files to chat with host Kelton Reid about his writing process and the upcoming movie adaptation of his hit book, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon (release date October 2, 2015).

Harper answered a few questions about subverting genre tropes, writing compelling criminals, the upcoming film adaptation and more.

It's an interesting twist of fate for a novelist who once wrote, upon hearing the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his book About a Boy, «Seeing one's words converted into Hollywood cash is gratifying in all sorts of ways, but it really can not compare to the experience of hearing them converted into music: for someone who has to write books because he can not write songs, the idea that a book might somehow produce a song is embarrassingly thrilling.»

was released in 1993, though he has written original screenplays and was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of Nick Hornby's About a Boy.

Yes, it's true — the Queen of Tennessee (and angel of literacy) herself is writing original songs for the upcoming film adaptation of Murphy's fabulous novel about the plus - sized teen beauty queen named Willowdean.

She also dishes about her role as a creative consultant for the 2012 big screen adaptation of Sweet Valley High, which is being written by Oscar - winner Diablo Cody.

I love your comment about writing from the soul, BUT with an adaptation for the market.

Writing about your interested topic will definitely benefit your reader to share the genuine passion and create the whole new space for endless adaptation.

She wrote and self - published a memoir about her experiences which has now been optioned for a movie adaptation.

Mass Effect and its sequel have been described as cinematic by just about everyone who % 26rsquo; s ever written about them, so we have high hopes that here, finally, is the Holy Grail of game - to - movie adaptation.

When I wrote with James Kanter last year about the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on impacts from global warming, I made sure we noted how the consequences for humans change significantly when adaptation is taken into account (boldface added):

[This is the Intergorvernmental Panel on Climate Change report, «Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation,» which I wrote about here.]

Most Lukewarmers who write about climate change have offered individual assessments, but none of us have said «this is a lukearmer position on adaptation or mitigation.»

I wrote about this possibility in a previous post, and since then people have been sending me examples of inspiring projects where adaptation reduces emissions, or where reduced emissions help enable adaptation.

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In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»