Ms. Stewart's updated adaptation takes things further by turning the successful, widowed, cruel Dr. Austin Sloper, the father in the novel, into the successful, divorced, cruel Eve Walker.
Early in "Ward No. 6," an updated adaptation of Chekhov's famous short story set in a Russian provincial mental hospital, the chief doctor, Hobotov (Evgeny Stychkin), leads a documentary film crew through the halls of the shabby institution.
There's also Pavan Varma, the Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, who wrote "The Art of Making Love to a Woman," an updated adaptation of the "Kama Sutra".
"I've never directed anything on a ship before; I've never even been on a ship before," said Michael Scheman, who wrote the updated adaptation and who directs not just a cast of 20 but frequently the audience.
This updated adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel, set in the present day, follows an entrepreneurial French expatriate (Stanislas Merhar) in a Southeast Asian delta village whose ramshackle farm faces ruin.
The film, an updated adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by the Portuguese author José Maria Eça de Queiroz, tells the story of Father Amaro (Gael García Bernal), a dreamy-eyed 24-year-old cleric dispatched to a small parish church in Los Reyes to assist its aging priest, Father Benito (Sancho Gracia).
In fact, I pitched an updated adaptation of the Graham Greene screenplay in 2006 to Speight Jenkins, Intendant of Seattle Opera.
Perrault's adaptation of Basile's updated adaptation of the story (a much tamer version) is probably what was used for the Disney adaptation, as they are much more similar.
"The Night Manager" is an updated adaptation of Le Carré's 1993 novel of the same name, the first television adaptation of the author's work in over 20 years.
There were some of each, for example, in his discussion of plans for a series of television shows and films meant to sneakily introduce the masses to classical music, among them updated adaptations of "The Wizard of Oz" (as "La Clemenza di Toto") and "Das Rheingold" (as "Singing in the Rhine") as well as several police and organized crime shows ("NYPDQ," "Beverly Sills Cop" and "The Altos").
