"first adapted" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that was changed or modified for a particular purpose. For example: "The novel was first adapted for the stage in 1999."
Subjects were first adapted to the experimental setup by spending one adaptation night in the sleep laboratory, and subjects with an abnormal sleep pattern on this adaptation night were excluded.
It was first adapted for the big screen in 1979, starring Marilyn Hassett.
The first, adapted from Bridget Jones's Diary, came in 2001, with the sequel following in 2004.
It was first adapted for TV and shown on Channel 4 in the 1980s, with Prunella Scales and Nigel Hawthorne.
In "Solaris," Steven Soderbergh's reimagining of the Stanislaw Lem science fiction novel first adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972, Natascha McElhone plays at least three characters in one.
Universal first adapted the book in 1933, with Frankenstein's James Whale in charge of the cameras and Claude Rains as the bandaged madman on the run.
Wuthering Heights was first adapted for the screen in the silent era, while actors who have previously played Heathcliff include Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton and Ralph Fiennes.
Johnson first adapted Aristophanes at Bowdoin College, where she put on an update of "Acharnians" as a senior project, in 2012.
Pride and Prejudice was first adapted in short scenes designed for drawing rooms or schools, most of which relegated Darcy to an offstage idea.
But he never approached the wide acclaim and influence he achieved with his first novel, which was first adapted for film by Peter Brook in 1963.
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