Sentence examples for produced an adaptation from inspiring English sources

About 1170, however, the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas, who was probably associated with the court of Henry II of England, produced an adaptation in which the harshness of the archetype was considerably softened.

The myth that Banville adapts is that of the Theban king Amphitryon (a story that he engaged with a decade ago, when he produced an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's "Amphitryon").

For years, David O. Selznick held the movie rights to "The Dove," but he never produced an adaptation of the novel, unquestionably because of the difficulty of casting the three principal roles and of finding an adapter who could satisfactorily cope with the dramatization.

In 2007, an off-off-Broadway company named The Hourglass Group produced an adaptation of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles in a production that ran for a month.

Wholesale changes to an original instrument raises the issue of whether or not one has produced an adaptation of an existing instrument, or rather a new instrument entirely.

But it took a while for Hollywood to produce an adaptation that preserved the toxic cynicism of his writing.

Polanski and his producing partners had pieced together financing to produce an adaptation of a Polish memoir, first published in 1946, called "Death of a City".

With Mr. Carnahan ("Narc" and "Smokin' Aces"), Mr. Yari and others have for years been working to produce an adaptation of "Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw," Mark Bowden's best-selling 2001 book.

SEVERAL years ago, the Cannes Film Festival was brightened by the report that Menahem Golan, of Cannon Films, and Jean-Luc Godard had signed an agreement on a napkin calling for Cannon to produce an adaptation of "King Lear" to be written by Norman Mailer, directed by Mr. Godard, with Mr. Mailer in the title role co-starring with his daughter, Kate Mailer, as Cordelia.

The cable network, which is also producing an adaptation of Mr. Kushner's play "Homebody/Kabul," is betting heavily that the playwright -- who is a socialist, gay and so very Jewish (according to his friend Maurice Sendak) that "it hurts your eyes" -- is ready for prime time.

For HBO, he directed and co-produced an adaptation of his father's Broadway play Thurgood, about the civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court justice, and shared a daytime Emmy for co-producing We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.