It's the specific contemporary challenge of Australia – to reconcile itself to its land – that Lutton suggests inspired the recent spate of offers to adapt Picnic's text to production.
As a result of the film, Bakshi received an offer to adapt Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book for TNT.
Salinger had rejected previous offers to adapt the novel, and had not made a public appearance since 1965 or granted an interview since 1980.
In the wake of its 1950s success, Salinger received (and rejected) numerous offers to adapt The Catcher in the Rye for the screen, including one from Samuel Goldwyn.
At this time, he also couldn't afford to pay the rent, which is why he accepted the late Sydney Pollack's offer to adapt "Silver Linings Playbook" from the Matthew Quick novel.
In 1947 a Belgian film adaptation of The Crab with the Golden Claws was produced, and believing that cinematic adaptations were a good way to proceed, Hergé contacted Disney Studios in the United States; they declined his offer to adapt The Adventures of Tintin for the silver screen.
The detailed protocols will be offered to and adapted for countries of varying size and income in order to establish INFORMAS globally as a new monitoring initiative to reduce obesity and diet-related NCDs.
The 'difficult part' was reviewing the 261 offered occupations to adapt the details (e.g., deleting or renaming the occupations such as 'Career Planning and Placement Director' versus 'Careers Counsellor' [Lokan and Fleming 2003, p.
Additionally, they offer flexibility to adapt to different clinical settings, important aspects if one wishes to implement modifications in clinical protocols to decrease or increase CS rates.
Animal genetic resources and local breeds offer opportunities to adapt livestock to constraining feeding environments, and hence their preservation is highly relevant for the development of ecology-based alternatives for animal production.
