Sentence examples for commissioned to adapt from inspiring English sources

(She has been commissioned to adapt to the Southport scene as well, she said).

2008 That Face transfers to the West End and Stenham is commissioned to adapt it for the big screen.

In the nineteen-sixties, the American animator Gene Deitch, famed for his work on "Popeye" and other cartoons, was commissioned to adapt "Krazy Kat" for television.

I was commissioned to adapt Wagner's Götterdämmerung by the Perth international arts festival, and felt this might be an opportunity to let such an interplay of the senses become a focused articulation.

She has also written a three-part television murder mystery, Limehouse, set in London in 1918, and has been commissioned to adapt The Remarkable Journey of Miss Tranby Quirke, about a lesbian affair between a repressed teacher and her feisty young student.

Raine, whose play Consent was seen at the National Theatre last year, has been commissioned to adapt the book by Mammoth Screen, who also made ITV's Victoria.

Harwood had read Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir in 2002, but accepted the commission to adapt it without re-reading it.

He has accepted a lucrative commission to adapt Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief, and after struggling for months discovers that the screenplay he actually wants to write is the story of his failure to adapt it.

The New York architect Deborah Berke recently won a commission to adapt that hunkering sandstone complex of 11 buildings dating from 1870 into a hotel and conference center that can serve contemporary needs.

Since then, he has released a memoir, "A Bad Idea I'm About to Do," which IFC commissioned to be adapted into a TV pilot starring Gethard.

Two years ago, the Almeida Theatre, in London, commissioned Cusk to adapt Euripedes' "Medea" for the contemporary stage.