He was considered part of the firmament - a good actor, but not necessarily a great one - until he was offered the chance to play Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant, an ITV adaptation of Crisp's autobiography.
His adaptation takes the civil rights movement of the 1960s – a struggle that lurks deep in the background of the original novel – and brings it centre stage.
We conclude that grassroots innovations develop and diffuse in quite different ways to conventional innovations, and that niche theories require adaptation to the civil society context.
Cumberbatch, who plays Holmes, starred in Star Trek sequel Into Darkness in 2013 and will play the lead in Marvel's Dr Strange next year, while Freeman, star of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, will take a role in another blockbuster comic adaptation, Captain America: Civil War.
The word around the campfire is that the third Captain America film, due to be released on May 6th, 2016 by Walt Disney and Marvel, will be a loose adaptation of the "Civil War" comic book arc that pitted masked hero against masked hero after the government demanded that all superheroes register their identities.
Eleven years after drawing a few boos and zero prizes for her competition entry "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola won directing honors for "The Beguiled," her slyly feminist adaptation of a Civil War-era novel that previously inspired Don Siegel's 1971 thriller starring Clint Eastwood.
It draws attention to implementation and evaluation barriers, and highlights creative approaches to adaptation, such as involving civil society volunteers.
Bridget Jones is a side issue, anyway - we're here to talk about Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Charles Frazier's civil war love epic, set in North Carolina.
David Rush's adaptation of a heartbreaking Civil War memoir was brought to dynamic life by Drew Martin in an environmental staging, first seen at Stage Left Theatre in Chicago in 1992.
Equipped with better analysis of the origins of these multilateral donors, we can more accurately describe, anticipate, and understand their strengthened governance processes and, consequently, their likely adaptation to country and civil societal needs.
