Sentence examples for adaptation director from inspiring English sources

In this superb screen adaptation, director Nora Twomey and screenwriter Anita Doron have retained the cultural authenticity of Ellis's book while expanding the narrative in adventurous ways.

In his second masterful Dickens adaptation, director David Lean expertly abridges the author's long-winded story about a young orphan's changing fortunes in Victorian England into a beautifully paced two-hour film.

Bondarchuk also starred as Pierre, was more than 50 years after the first Russian adaptation, by director Vladimir Gardin, in 1915.

Rather than recalibrating the film as a literary adaptation, the director's fondness for the stage play is obvious.

This adaptation by director Adam shiftsbury-Maher, shifthethe story to Berlin in 1989, just as the Eastern Bloc is imploding.

But it was his subsequent casting in The Green Mile, the Stephen King adaptation by director Frank Darabont that cemented Duncan's place in the Hollywood firmament.

Her latest project is an adaptation for director Tim Burton of Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in cinemas this week.

In this free adaptation by director Tae-Suk Oh, which mixes the Bard's late romance with old Korean tales and folk songs, Prospero (aka Zilzi) is a storm-conjuring shaman with a cloud of dark hair.

In her adaptation, Elegy, director Isabel Coixet softens Roth's misogyny and concocts clumsy dialogue, especially between Ben Kingsley, the professor, and Dennis Hopper, 'a Pulitzer poet'-winning poet', as Kingsley reminds him in case he didn't know.

The movie adaptation broke director Peter Weir's international career, and the symbols and tropes of his work of cinema have proved as culturally haunting as Lindsay's tale of picnicking schoolgirls who vanish into a mountainside on Valentine's Day, 1900.

One of the most ambitious projects was the failed film adaptation by director Alejandro Jodorowsky of the 1965 sci-fi novel Dune, written by Frank Herbert.