She has signed to make an adaptation of ALICE SEBOLD's best-seller "The Lovely Bones".
Following that, Cox went back to Mexico in 1992 to make an adaptation of a Jorge Luis Borges story, Death & the Compass.
After her repeated entreaties, they agreed in 2002 to grant her the rights to make an adaptation for a period of two years.
One of the most audacious and bitter films ever made: an adaptation of "McTeague," by the seminal American realist Frank Norris, from 1899.
Lee himself put pressure on Hammer to make an adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's tale of high-flying diplomats indulging in Satan worship, The Devil Rides Out.
Roman Polanski and Olivier Assayas are teaming up to make an adaptation of Based on a True Story, Delphine de Vigan's novel about a writer struggling to complete a new book after suffering the unwanted attentions of an obsessive fan.
As a poet of dislocation and isolation, Egoyan's closest equivalent is arguably American writer-director Paul Schrader, who made an adaptation of another Banks novel, Affliction, in the same year as The Sweet Hereafter.
Alban Berg thought seriously of making an adaptation of Hauptmann's play "And Pippa Dances" (1906) before moving on to the two Frank Wedekind plays from which he would fashion "Lulu".
(This might be a good place to mention that this reviewer once made an adaptation, which Feinstein recorded, of some decidedly non-American cabaret songs, Arnold Schoenberg's "Brettl-Lieder").
