Sentence examples for troubled adaptation from inspiring English sources

Ramsay's career then ran into the sand over her troubled adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, which has since been taken over by Peter Jackson and Dreamworks.

Shrewd about promotion and well aware of career trajectories ("In this profession it's a long walk between drinks"), he may allow himself to be distracted by theatrical ambitions (troubled adaptations of "The Grass Harp" and his story "House of Flowers"), but not even Henry James was immune to that particular seduction and heartbreak.

Even if you didn't know how troubled this adaptation of John Albano's comic book was, with rumours of countless rewrites and reshoots, it's obvious something is drastically wrong here even before the opening titles are over.

The only reason I finished it is because the movie adaptation is coming out next month and I felt the need to thoroughly explain why it is so problematic and why I find the excitement over the movie adaptation so troubling.

At the Oscars this evening, however, the comedian will be in contention as the writer of an original screenplay, not an adaptation of the material she already had performed -- a fact that has troubled some members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Nov. 15 BARRYMORE Christopher Plummer recreates his Tony Award-winning performance as John Barrymore in this adaptation of the Broadway play by William Luce, set near the end of the actor's troubled life.

The critics' troubled response to Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" in 1964 was echoed by New York City officialdom when it came to the 1966 film adaptation.

The matter has troubled him.

Uncertainty in prognosis is troubling for patients, hampers psychosocial adaptation to illness, and degrades quality of life [ 12- 15].

Yet the N.F.L.'s governance model is not designed for early warning of trouble or creative adaptation.

Despite the critical success of The House of Mirth, his 2000 adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, Davies feared he might never trouble our cinema screens again.