He said his next film would be a small scale, low budget adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, which centres on the story of two 17th century Portuguese missionaries travelling in imperial Japan.
The news emerged after four of the wranglers on the set of the big budget adaptation of JRR Tolkien's novel blew the whistle to the animal rights organisation and said the deaths were preventable.
Indeed, Mr Whedon will surely be showing off these talents in his next venture a very low budget adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing", which might seem remarkably far removed from the cosmic tag-wrestling of "The Avengers" were it not for the sensibility that will unite them.
I feel like that bit of context might be helpful as I walk you through my utterly baffled reaction to Universal Studios' big budget adaptation directed by Duncan Jones (whose Moon and Source Code I remain a pretty big fan of).
On the other hand, less-adventurous big-budget adaptations reshape the literary works on which they are based into conventional "Hollywood" movies, as some critics complained about Sidney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985).
and director James Franciss) Ivory (b. June 7 , 1928 Berkeley, Calif., U.S). produced a string of impressive low-budget adaptations of complex novels by such authors as Henry James, E.M. Forster, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Several major new productions -- including big-budget adaptations of films like "The Witches of Eastwick" and "Peggy Sue Got Married" -- failed during the last year, as have musicals based on the work of British pop sensations (the Pet Shop Boys' musical "Closer to Heaven") and French literary classics ("Nôtre Dame de Paris").
The word febrile has appeared in 21 New York Times articles in the past year, including on April 22 in "Poe Taunts Filmmakers Evermore" by Terrence Rafferty: Probably the best known Poe pictures are the eight low-budget adaptations directed by Roger Corman between 1960 and 1964.
The two had produced an unequaled string of impressive low-budget adaptations of complex novels by such authors as Henry James, E.M. Forster, and Kazuo Ishiguro and were known for their richly textured cinematography and ability to evoke brilliant performances from some of the world's finest actors.
Here's the trouble with Hollywood's franchise machine, in a nutshell: Studios are so dependent on big-budget adaptations that they will greenlight several years' worth of movies before a series' first installment has even hit theaters.
By 1937, Preminger, having proved himself capable, was assigned to direct a big-budget adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped".
