Sentence examples for saga based from inspiring English sources

It was billed as the next Twilight: a blockbuster fantasy saga based on the hugely popular series of young adult novels by Cassandra Clare.

Ms. Stewart's saga, based on "Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia" by Christopher Byron John Wileyy & Sons, 2002), did not make the cut to the big screen, which is in itself a slight.

'All of a sudden you're not that any more and you're scared.' The film-makers opted to tell the saga based on 'the PoWs' mindset at the time,' which was (and is) staunchly militaristic.

Mortal Instruments is just the latest franchise being positioned to take over as the new Twilight, as Hollywood vies to ape the enormous $3.3bn success of the saga based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling series of supernatural romance novels.

Marvel even published a series of Conan comics between 1970 and 2000, so it could be argued that the Disney-owned studio is the natural home for a saga based on his world.

Marriott offered to pay $34 in cash for all Saga shares, for a total of about $435 million, but the shares of Saga, based in Menlo Park, Calif., closed significantly higher, at $36.625.

The saga was based on Winston Graham's novels about the Poldark tin-mine dynasty.

Most of the themes of French romance appear in Icelandic versions; e.g., Karlamagnús saga was based on Charlemagne legends.

One of its members, Esaias Tegnér, wrote a popular verse epic, Frithiofs saga (1825), based on an Old Norse theme.

When asked just how much of Tracy's saga is based on her own life, Ms. Reed's practiced reply was: "Obviously, a lot of it is true.

"The Forsyte Saga" is based on the first two books of an immensely ppular nine-book series by the British author John Galsworthy.