While writing The French Lieutenant's Woman, he was working on the screenplay for the film adaptation of The Magus; The Collector had already been adapted as a film released in 1965, gaining him further popular attention.
Mr. van der Linden's Furby has already been adapted to play standard WAV files.
A film of Victory was made in 1996 starring Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe and Rufus Sewell, but it had already been adapted several times, including a 1919 silent version featuring Lon Chaney Sr and again in 1930 as Dangerous Paradise.
But the shepherdess is probably borrowed from the work of the Victorian artist Walter Crane, whose children's book illustrations had already been adapted and mass-produced as popular tile designs.
Although Chandler's Marlowe novels had already been adapted twice for the screen including a 1942 version of the same story Murder, My Sweet marked the first appearance of the Marlowe character himself.
One of them, in water management — a historical strength in a country where 21 percent of the population live below sea level — has already been adapted by the University of Bandung, in Malaysia.
But Little pointed out that the book has already been adapted for film by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp, and "so it's not like it's the first time the book has come around in a different medium, so why not comics?" "It's a dream job for a guy like me," he said.
Mr. Stine's "Goosebumps" and "Haunting Hour" series have already been adapted for television; in an interview with moviefone.com Mr. Stine said that his adult novel "The Sitter" was also being developed as a feature film under the title "The Au Pair," to be produced by Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures.
On Oct. 30 last year, after staying up late to edit the final proofs of my novel, I woke to discover it had already been adapted for television — by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and every other channel that had interrupted its programming to show images of a flooded New York City.
In any case, the previous negotiating mandate has already been adapted to reflect, at least partly, Lithuania's desire for stronger language on energy (Russia has blocked an oil pipeline to Lithuania's refinery since 2006, claiming that it needs "repairs").Yet the Lithuanians want more.
