Disney recently hired DuVernay to direct their highly anticipated adaptation of the popular children's novel A Wrinkle in Time.
The production company is Lookout Point, which co-produced BBC1's highly acclaimed adaptation of War and Peace.
For example, Anders Lustgarten's highly entertaining adaptation for the Red Ladder company of David Peace's novel The Damned United is doubly site-specific.
AK stands for Anna Karenina, Joe Wright's highly stylised adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel – the second feature in my surreal double bill of screenings.
It was a highly irreverent adaptation of the problematic novel by Robert Heinlein but an upcoming reboot will, according to one of its writers on Twitter, be "an actual adaptation of the Heinlein novel.
Eimear McBride's A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing gets its UK premiere in highly praised adaptation by Dublin's Corn Exchange as part of the Norfolk and Norwich festival, which this week also features Circa, Wildworks, Deborah Pearson, Richard Dedomenici and more.
But this is a highly skilful adaptation, and Paul Ritter and Nicola Walker as Christopher's parents movingly remind us of the messily contradictory human emotions that co-exist with their son's world of perfect patterns.
It would be enough to put anyone off even having a go, but Rhys Ifans has stepped bravely up to the plate for this hyperactive, highly coloured adaptation directed by Kevin Allen.
In the very few points on which Cranko differs from Tchaikovsky's highly selective adaptation of Pushkin, he doesn't return to Pushkin's original — he moves further away.
Cabin in the Sky (1943), made for the Freed unit for well under a million dollars, was an extraordinary first effort, a highly stylized adaptation of the hit Broadway show.
