(The script, which was the inspiration for Jerome Robbins's "West Side Story," could just as easily be adapted into a "Twilight" movie, so adroitly does it play on the teen-age idea of love as a state of extreme ecstasy).
When I spoke with Straub a day or two later, he invited me to a screening at the Cinémathèque of his "Antigone," a political film that turns Sophocles' vision of ancient Greece, through the translation by Hölderlin as adapted by Brecht, into a refraction of a John Ford Western.
The impressive combined forces of the St . PetersburgChamber Choir and the Dessoff Choirs got a bigger workout in "The Bells," Rachmaninoff's settings of four Edgar Allan Poe poems, as freely adapted into Russian by Konstantin Balmont.
The series spawned three compilations films and was adapted into a manga as well as light novels.
As adapted by Mr. Chong, the story touches on the present day, turning a cautionary tale into a cultural indictment.
Classic Machiavellian maneuvers as adapted by Cheney and Rove.
These IP will be developed as comic books and adapted into live-action movies and TV shows on Netflix.
Classics Sometimes it's too easy to take a lazy potshot at Hollywood when every summer brings around a fresh crop of sequels to last year's blockbusters: "Don't they have any new ideas?" It's not just about superheroes; some of our most beloved classics started their lives as books before being adapted into tremendously important films.
Plunz also offers insight into how and why modernist "tower in the park" designs of architects such as Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius were adapted into the design of much of New York's public housing, and the recent return to low-rise publicly subsidized housing, such as new "suburban cottages" set amidst the abandoned buildings and rubble strewn lots of the South Bronx.
Those references and nods are clear to King's Constant Readers (the name he gives to his fans): for It's main narrative thrust, it almost seemed as if he looked at the teenage friendships he'd written in 1982's The Body (later adapted into film as Stand By Me) and took the basic setup of that book, deciding to push it further.
