The race is on to be the first team to successfully adapt a hit video game for the big screen.
Art Spiegelman's "Maus" is a natural starting point, but there is so much more that has been done since he won a Pulitzer for that book in 1992: Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" (which was also adapted into an Oscar-nominated animated film), Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" (which has been adapted into a hit Broadway play), Joe Sacco's "Footnotes in Gaza," to name only a few.
The original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" ran for more than 1,500 performances from 1981 to 1985; the show was also adapted into a hit 2006 film.
Rodrigo Garcia, the writer and director of the drama, which is adapted from a hit television series in Israel, predicted that as the series continues, through March 29, viewers with a crush on Paul might find the spell broken.
Charles Webb, 66, the author of the 1963 novel "The Graduate," later adapted into a hit film of the same title, is facing eviction from his apartment in England for nonpayment of rent, the BBC reported yesterday.
Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Studios have bought the rights to the book "War Horse," about the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World War I — a novel that was adapted into a hit play now running in London, above with Robert Emms, and expected in New York in 2011.
Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale," her prescient 1985 novel later adapted for a hit series on Hulu.
He was a staff writer for sitcoms such as "Martin," "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "The John Larroquette Show," and in an act of digital foresight, created the Internet series "Undercover Brother" that would be adapted into a hit film in 2002 (which he also produced).
Adapting a stage hit can be phenomenally expensive, he adds, because of the cost of the rights.
Nicholas Hytner has once again mined his time as the artistic director of the National Theatre to adapt a stage hit for the big screen.
