Sentence examples for a fictionalized retelling of from inspiring English sources

In 1945 Burroughs and Kerouac collaborated on a fictionalized retelling of those events entitled And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.

To give the actors a sense of what excited him about the musical, Timbers turned to a text published in 1896: the preface of Mark Twain's "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," a fictionalized retelling of her life.

"Nightingale" is a fictionalized retelling of her grandmother's life, constructed from a handful of remembered anecdotes and research on what life was like for a typical, well-brought-up Englishwoman of her grandmother's day.

The movie is a fictionalized retelling of the true story of Regina Kelly, of Hearne, Texas.

The Story of Yue Fei is a fictionalized retelling of Yue Fei's young life, military exploits, and execution.

This is a revenge movie based on a revenge novel that is a fictionalized retelling of the life of Hugh Glass.

Kosinski then took the literary world by storm with The Painted Bird (1965), a graphic, fictionalized retelling of his own horrific experiences as a Jewish child in World War II.

When Gene Kirkwood, a film producer and former client, learned that Mr. Marcucci was writing his memoirs, he bought the rights and used the material as the basis for "The Idolmaker," a thinly fictionalized retelling of the Fabian and Frankie Avalon story, with Ray Sharkey in the role of Vinnie Vacarri, their manager.

It remains to be seen whether or not "The Social Network," the highly fictionalized retelling of the origins of Facebook, will be a box-office hit.

"It's a fictionalized version of my life," he said.

In 1965, Natacha Stewart wrote "Bottles," a fictionalized account of an interview with the reclusive Bolognese artist.