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Three years ago there were reports that the director of Wanted, Timur Bekmambetov, was readying a "graphic novel-style" adaptation featuring a heroic Ahab, but that project seems to have died in development hell.
Many will know Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation, featuring a screenplay by James Agee, cinematography by Stanley Cortez and a colossal performance by Robert Mitchum as the widow-killing preacher with "love" and "hate" tattooed on his fists.
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A 1996 film adaptation featured a new Rice Lloyd Webber song, "You Must Love Me," performed by pop star Madonna.
Advance information tells us that the movie, entitled Adaptation, features a Kaufman clone (played by Nicolas Cage) wrestling with an adaptation of a book called The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean - which in turn tells the true-life story of a man who illegally cloned orchids to sell to plant collectors.
Set out like a traditional text book on the ancient art of rhetoric, the adaptation featured a caricature of Cresswell as a philosopher teaching her lifetime's worth of sexual tricks and wiles to Dorethea, the fallen daughter of a ruined royalist.
The JG Ballard adaptation features an all-star cast, including Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons.
Following the success of the manga series, TMS Entertainment and Toho produced a 12-minute Lupin III anime film adaptation featuring Lupin wearing a red jacket outfit.
The book could be due a major resurgence in popularity now that Brendan Gleeson is directing an adaptation featuring pretty much every Irish actor you've ever heard of (Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, and Gabriel Byrne have all signed on).
Two separate Swedish television series were made featuring the character, who took on a life of his own within them: both were sold around the world, as was a BBC adaptation, featuring Kenneth Branagh.
Based on a best-selling Japanese manga, the show's aired for three seasons and has culminated in a film adaptation featuring many of the series's actors.
Both the film and the stage adaptation feature a nightmarish extraterrestrial designed by the artist H.R. Giger — played, in this production, by a high school student.
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