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unusual facts about film adaptation


Chris Lowell

In 2011, Lowell played the role of Stuart Whitworth in the film The Help, an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name.


Andre Dubus III

It has been published in twenty languages and the 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for an Academy Award.

Andrew Melville Hall

Andrew Melville Hall was used for location shooting of the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go starring Keira Knightley.

Angels Sing

An adaptation of Turk Pipkin's 1999 novel When Angels Sing, the film is directed by Tim McCanlies, and stars Harry Connick, Jr., Connie Britton, Chandler Canterbury, Fionnula Flanagan, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.

Ayande-ye No

In reaction to the 2007 film 300, an adaptation of Frank Miller's 1998 graphic novel, was widely criticized for its portrayal of Persian combatants at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Barret Oliver

He is known for his role as Bastian Balthazar Bux in the film adaptation of Michael Ende's novel The NeverEnding Story followed by roles in D.A.R.Y.L., Cocoon and Cocoon: The Return.

Bob Burden

Burden's Mystery Men was the subject of a 1999 film adaptation, directed by Kinka Usher and starring Ben Stiller and Geoffrey Rush.

Bosco Hogan

He appeared in a minor role as convicted felon George Saden in John Boorman's film Zardoz (1973), but his first major film role was as Stephen Dedalus in Joseph Strick's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977), a film adaptation of James Joyce's novel of the same name.

Brigitte Auber

Brigitte Auber also had a supporting role in 1998's film adaptation of The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas.

Cogliostro

Nicol Williamson portrayed Cogliostro in the 1997 film adaptation, where he was the black knight from the fifteenth century who became a Hellspawn after his death.

Coon 2: Hindsight

The creatures emerging from the dimensional tear are similar to those in the works of author H. P. Lovecraft and the Stephen King novella The Mist, as well as its film adaptation.

Cultural depictions of Anne Frank

The book The Freedom Writers Diary (and its 2007 film adaptation) biographs the lives of high school students whose English teacher encourages them to read The Diary of Anne Frank.

Film producer

Late German producer Bernd Eichinger is said to have worked 15 years on convincing novelist Patrick Süskind just to agree to a film adaptation of his book Perfume.

Gotengo

It was first conceived by author Shunrō Oshikawa in his 1899 novel Kaitei Gunkan ("Undersea Battleship"), of which Atragon was an adaptation produced by Toho Studios.

Hearts a Mess

The song also appears on the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby.

Hell-Cat Maggie

A composite character based on Hell-Cat Maggie, Sadie the Goat and Gallus Mag was played by Cara Seymour in the 2002 film adaptation of Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese.

Jessica Sara

After appearances in the films The Next Best Thing, Gepetto, and The Amati Girls, Sara appeared as Sophie in the film adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

John Patrick Looney

The character was renamed John Rooney and portrayed by Paul Newman in Sam Mendes' 2002 film adaptation.

Khwae Yai River

However this is not the same bridge as depicted in The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle and in its film adaptation.

Lost City of Z

David Grann's New Yorker article "The Lost City of Z" (2005) was expanded into a book The Lost City of Z (2009) and a forthcoming movie.

Lost Planet

In July 2008, it was announced that David Hayter (voice of Solid/Naked Snake in the video game series Metal Gear Solid and screenwriter of films such as X-Men, X2: X-Men United and Watchmen) was in talks with Warner Bros. to write and direct a film adaptation of Lost Planet.

O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S. is a 1937 action comedy film, while the title of Ian Fleming's 1963 James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, along with its film adaptation, is a play on the term.

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta

The film is the eighth feature based on the One Piece media franchise, adapting a story arc from the original manga by Eiichiro Oda, wherein the Straw Hat Pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy travel to the Kingdom of Alabasta to save the war- and drought-plagued country from Sir Crocodile and his secret criminal organization Baroque Works.

Otto Witte

Witte's story bears a strong resemblance to the best-selling adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), of which the first film adaptation was released in 1913.

Perks

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a 1999 coming-of-age epistolary novel by Stephen Chbosky; also refers to the film adaptation.

Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim has been adapted as a film three times, in 1919, 1936 and 2004, with Jimmy Crocker played by, respectively, Owen Moore, Robert Montgomery and Sam Rockwell.

Pontiac LeMans

In the film adaptation of The French Connection, Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle commandeered a 1971 Le Mans sedan from a citizen.

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

While not a direct video game adaptation or containing elements of the film, the game's release coincides with the May 2010 release of Disney's film adaptation of the video game, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley.

Robert Fulke Greville

He hence appears as a character in the play The Madness of George III and its film adaptation, played in the latter by Rupert Graves.

Screaming Tunnel

The tunnel was used as a set during the filming of David Cronenberg's 1983 film adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel The Dead Zone.

Sittin' Pretty

The first track, "Nothing to Be Done" was featured in the soundtrack of 1998's film adaptation of Irvine Welsh' novel "The Acid House".

Stigmatized property

One example is the house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York where Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his family, later made famous by a best selling book and numerous film adaptations.

The Masked Menace

It was adapted from the story Still Face by pulp writer Clarence Buddington Kelland and was released in ten chapters.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

A film adaptation—starring Jon Foster, Sienna Miller, Peter Sarsgaard, and Nick Nolte—was released in 2009.

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!

The name of the album is a quote from the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (and is also included in its 1998 film adaptation).

Up Country

Paramount Pictures, the motion-picture studio that was responsible for the 1999 film adaptation The General's Daughter, likewise bought the rights to Up Country, with actor John Travolta slated to return as Brenner.

Victoria Horne

Perhaps her best-known film roles were as Myrtle Mae Simmons in the 1950 film adaptation of Mary Chase's play, Harvey, and as Roberta in the 1952 Three Stooges short subject Cuckoo on a Choo Choo.

Walter D. Edmonds

One of them, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), was successfully adapted as a Technicolor feature film in 1939, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert.

Wheelman

Simultaneously with the announcement of the video game in February 2006, a film adaptation was announced with Vin Diesel in the lead role and Rich Wilkes, who worked with Diesel on xXx (2002), was hired to write the script.


see also

2061: Odyssey Three

Shortly after the novel was released, Tom Hanks expressed great interest in producing a film adaptation, with himself cast in the role of Floyd, and Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain reprising their roles as David Bowman and HAL 9000.

Absent-minded professor

An example of this would be the characterisation of Merlin in The Sword in the Stone—particularly the Disney adaptation—and Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter.

Adršpach

The rural area around the village was used as the filming location for the winter scenes in the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of the Narnia books written by British author C.S. Lewis.

American Knees

A film adaptation, entitled Americanese (2006), was written and directed by Eric Byler, produced by Lisa Onodera, and stars Chris Tashima as Raymond Ding, Allison Sie as Aurora Crane and Joan Chen as Betty Nguyen.

Blood of the Innocent

Breck Eisner is set to direct the upcoming Hollywood film adaptation.

Boy Culture

Boy Culture is a 2006 film adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Matthew Rettenmund.

Boyd Oxlade

The book was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1987, and the 1991 film adaptation—which Oxlade co-wrote with the film's director, John Ruane, and which starred Sam Neill, Zoe Carides and John Clarke—became a cult hit.

Cherd Songsri

Among his other works are Puen Pang (1987), about two sisters in love with the same man; Muen and Rid (1994), a true story from Rama IV-era Siam about a woman who petitioned King Mongkut to make equal rights for women; and Tawipob (1990), the first film adaptation of a novel by Thommayanti, about a modern-day socialite who time travels back to Rama V-era Siam and becomes involved in the political and diplomatic intrigue of the day.

Child of God

In February 2012, James Franco began shooting a film adaptation of Child of God in Hillsboro, West Virginia.

Crimson Peak

Del Toro sent them his screenplays for a film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, a Western adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, and Crimson Peak.

Dora Gerson

In 1920, Gerson was cast to appear in the successful film adaptation of the Karl May penned novel Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (On the Brink of Paradise) and later followed that same year in another May adaptation entitled Die Todeskarawane (Caravan of Death).

Emmanuelle Arsan

Following the success of the film adaptation Emmanuelle (1974), Arsan was the titular director and writer of the film Laure (1976) about the sexual discoveries of a younger "Emmanuelle" named Laure, again in an exotic setting.

Enchanted April

Enchanted April is a 1992 film adaptation of Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel, "The Enchanted April," directed by Mike Newell.

EUR, Rome

The location was also used as the headquarters of Mayflower Industries in the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk and served as a backdrop for scenes from the 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Ferdydurke

Jerzy Skolimowski directed the 1991 film adaptation of Ferdydurke (alternate English title: 30 Door Key) with international cast including Iain Glen, Crispin Glover, Beata Pozniak, Robert Stephens, Judith Godrèche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Fabienne Babe.

Galina Jovovich

Her most notable works were such roles as Beatrice in Mnogo shuma iz nichego (1973), a film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and as Molly in criminal drama Milliony Ferfaksa (1980).

Ghostopolis

Hugh Jackman is to star and produce the feature film adaptation under his own company Seed Productions, with both the Gotham Group and Disney.

Heart Electric

The music video for Heart Electric was directed by Shusuke Kaneko who is known for the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, and the live-action film adaptation of Death Note.

Ian Watt

In fact, he had been taken prisoner by the Japanese and remained a prisoner of war at the Changi Prison until 1945, working on the construction of the Burma Railway which crossed Thailand, a feat that inspired the Pierre Boulle book 'Bridge Over the River Kwai', and the film adaptation by David Lean.

Kamen Rider: The Next

The film borrows elements from the Kamen Rider V3 television series and is a sequel to the Kamen Rider: The First movie (which was a film adaptation of the original Kamen Rider series).

Kawab

The film adaptation of David Macaulay's 1975 book Pyramid depicts Kawab as being killed by an ambush near the border between Egypt and Nubia.

Kirk DeMicco

John Cleese and DeMicco co-wrote the film adaptation of the Roald Dahl's children classic The Twits.

Leopoldo María Panero

#The quote that headlines the text: Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Fifteen men over the Dead Man's Chest/ Yahoo! And a bottle of rum!, which is the song that the pirates sing in Robert L. Stevenson's "The treasure island" (evidently, there is also a film adaptation).

Married Love

The book was the basis for a 1923 British silent film adaptation Married Love directed by Alexander Butler.

Mathilukal

In 1989, a film adaptation of the novel was released, starring Mammootty as Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

Paloma Kwiatkowski

Kwiatkowski plays a main role in Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, a film adaptation of a young adult book by Canadian author Billie Livingston.

Plot hole

The 2000 film adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth is rife with plot holes, e.g. the Psychlos enslaving humanity for gold for 1000 years despite the presence of Fort Knox.

Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival

In years past, the PRCF has welcomed Hollywood celebrities such as Oscar-winning actor Chris Cooper (Adaptation) and Emmy-nominated producer Kris Meyer (There's Something About Mary).

Pruneface

He also made a brief appearance in the 1990 film adaptation of Dick Tracy, in which he is portrayed by R. G. Armstrong.

Raymond Chandler bibliography

Unless otherwise noted, all works have been released by Phoenix Books & Audio, and are read by actor Elliott Gould, who portrayed Philip Marlowe in the 1973 film adaptation of The Long Goodbye.

Requiem: A Hallucination

Alain Tanner directed a 1998 film adaptation, also called Requiem.

Sandy Harbutt

In the late 1970s Harbutt tried to get up a film adaptation of The Drums of Myrrh by Ion Idriess.

Serge Brussolo

In 2009, a film adaptation of his best-seller French-language novel Les Emmurés was adapted into a film, entitled Walled In.

Silvina Bullrich

Her continued success led to a 1975 film adaptation of her novel "Crystal Jubilee," for which she wrote the screenplay.

Skip Homeier

He played the troubled youngster in the 1944 film adaptation and received good reviews playing opposite Fredric March and Betty Field as his American uncle and aunt.

Strange Company

The most recent Strange Company release is a short film adaptation of a Lord Byron poem entitled, "When We Two Parted.", which was featured on the front page of YouTube UK upon its release.

Tales from the Town of Widows

A film adaptation released in 2011, was directed by Gabriela Tagliavini and starred Eva Longoria and Christian Slater.

Tannöd

A film adaptation of the novel with the same title Tannöd was released in cinemas in Germany on 19 November 2009, directed by Bettina Oberli, (Wüste-Film West) and starring Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch.

The Country of the Blind

The Russian studio Soyuzmultfilm made a wordless 19-minute animated film adaptation in 1995 called Land of Blind (Страна Слепых).

The Fifth Musketeer

The Fifth Musketeer is a 1979 film adaptation of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.

The Lincoln Lawyer

A film adaptation, starring Matthew McConaughey as Haller and Marisa Tomei as Maggie McPherson, was released on March 18, 2011.

The Lotus Caves

A film adaptation of the book was in development in 2007, from Walden Media, to be written by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal and directed by Rpin Suwannath.

The Marriage of William Ashe

A 1921 American silent film adaptation was directed by Edward Sloman and featured Wyndham Standing as Ashe and May Allison as Bristol.

The Tale of Pigling Bland

In 1994, an animated film adaptation was featured on the BBC television anthology series, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends with the voice of Pam Ferris as Aunt Pettitoes.

Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a 2012 film — part one of the film adaptation of The Hobbit

Vulvodynia

Susanna Kaysen, well known for her novel, Girl, Interrupted, and its film adaptation, has also published The Camera My Mother Gave Me, a novel concerning her own experience with vulvodynia and its debilitating symptoms.

Where Rainbows End

A film adaptation of the book is being directed by Christian Ditter with Lily Collins as Rosie Dunne.

William Sistrom

Later he joined RKO in 1935, where he worked on the film adaptation of Leslie Charteris' The Saint in New York.

Yoichi Asakawa

In the Korean film adaptation, The Ring Virus, Hong Booram, is the daughter of single-mother Sun-Joo Hong.