Sentence examples for based on another book from inspiring English sources

An earlier film about an abbreviated life, based on another book of Krakauer's, "Into the Wild," was also seen as flubbing this opportunity.

Mr. Star had originally planned to make a television series based on another book by Ms. Bushnell, "Lipstick Jungle," about older, more established versions of the "Sex and the City" friends.

But he was busy with the HBO series "Bored to Death," based on another of his books, so his contributions to "The Extra Man" happened mostly via interborough e-mail.

As is the case so often with movies based on books, the book is better than the movie.

"18 Stories" (Heinrich Böll): Bought the book because it contained "Bonn Diary," the story on which Straub's "Machorka-Muff" was based; made a Super-8 film, at age nineteen, based on another story in the book, "In the Valley of the Thundering Hooves".

But no one will take me seriously when I admit that I've been playing Freedom Force and Spider-Man, two games based on another juvenile pastime, comic books.

Schreck recently sold a series to the Sundance Channel based on another feminist and sexually forthright book, Mary Gaitskill's "Bad Behavior".

Meanwhile, Mr. Toback said he was close to finishing his own DeLorean script, based largely on another book, "Dream Maker: The Rise and Fall of John Z. DeLorean" by Ivan Fallon and James Srodes.

If the series was based on books, read the books again - or perhaps even for the first time!

"At the time, he wasn't sure whether he was going to finish it, and I was doing another movie based on a book called Nothing Lasts Forever," recalls Silver.

In fact it was, in 1949, and Universal are now working on another, based on Hillenbrand's book and with the author as "consultant".