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Displaying all articles tagged:
Adaptations
adaptations
Oct. 20, 2022
‘People Go Out, Come Back, Because It’s Too Much’
Ivo van Hove’s staging of
A Little Life
immerses audience members in its main character’s suffering.
By
Jason P. Frank
dr. mad-hatin’
Oct. 18, 2022
Who Watches the
Watchmen
? Not Alan Moore
Damon Lindelof tried to appease the writer with a Dr. Manhattan–blue apron, which Moore found “embarrassing.”
By
Rebecca Alter
657 boulevard
Oct. 18, 2022
Investigating
The Watcher
With Its Star Reporter
A conversation with Reeves Wiedeman about what the Netflix series got right and wrong about 657 Boulevard.
By
Devon Ivie
take two
Oct. 13, 2022
Martin Scorsese Is Finally Bringing
Gangs of New York
to TV
It will reportedly focus on characters who weren’t in his 2002 film.
By
Jennifer Zhan
future trash
Oct. 6, 2022
John Waters, Pope of Filth, to Direct Adaptation of His Book
Liarm
outh
“Maybe it’s fitting that my novel was shocking enough to jump-start the engine of my film career.”
By
Jason P. Frank
fire and blood
Oct. 3, 2022
House of the Dragon
’s Big Twist: A Happy Ending
“Driftmark” subverts book canon for a character send-off that might just be the last nice thing that happens in this series.
By
James Grebey
a twenty-four
Aug. 25, 2022
Brandy and Her Range to Star in A24 Psychological Horror
From the Eggers
twins
, Robert’s little brothers.
By
Zoe Guy
batter up!
Aug. 16, 2022
All of
A League of Their Own’
s Nods to the 1992 Peaches
Of course the Prime Video series knows “there’s no crying in baseball,” but that’s just the beginning of its many winks to the movie.
By
Sarene Leeds
tv review
Aug. 10, 2022
A League of Their Own
Pulls Off an Awkward Double Play
This imperfect but captivating series adaptation of the 1992 film is both a correction and a celebration.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
trailer mix
Aug. 4, 2022
Tell Me Lies
Trailer: Real Eyes Realize Real Lies
The Hulu adaptation of Carola Lovering’s novel premieres on September 7.
By
Jason P. Frank
crime
July 12, 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing
Author Still Wanted for Questioning in Zambia Murder
The Reese Witherspoon–produced film adaptation premieres July 13.
By
Zoe Guy
my production company is dropping
July 6, 2022
Duffer Bros to Adapt
Death Note
and Expand the
Stranger
-verse
Get you a man(s) who can do both.
By
Zoe Guy
dramatization drama
June 10, 2022
Michael Peterson Feels “Pimped Out” by
The Staircase
He has “no sympathy” for documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, “any more than I would for a hooker who contracted an STD after peddling her ass.”
By
Zoe Guy
the fault in our stairs
May 13, 2022
HBO Max’s
The Staircase
Let the Original Creators Down
Filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said he felt “betrayed” by the adaptation of his docuseries.
By
Jennifer Zhan
coming soon
May 3, 2022
Tanya Reynolds Joins Grown-Up Cast of
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Sony’s live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s book has cast a lot of adults so far.
By
Halle Kiefer
a bloody study
Apr. 7, 2022
How
The Dropout
’s Actors Compare to Their Real-Life Counterparts
The series stays largely faithful to the true story of Theranos, the fraudulent biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
By
Jennifer Zhan
book spoilers
Apr. 1, 2022
What to Expect in
Bridgerton
Season 3, Based on the Novels
There are a couple of ways the next Bridgerton sibling romance could go, but ton willing, we
will
have a masquerade ball!
By
Maggie Fremont
meet the ton
Mar. 25, 2022
Who’s Who in
Bridgerton
: A Books-to-Series Character Guide
Allow us to reintroduce you to the ton.
By
Maggie Fremont
trailer mix
Mar. 22, 2022
There’s a New Taylor Swift Song (Yay!) in This Trailer (Boo!)
Where the Crawdads Sing
… along to her new song, “Carolina.”
By
Rebecca Alter
tv review
Mar. 21, 2022
Pachinko
Builds Epic Family Drama on an Exquisitely Intimate Scale
Apple TV+’s adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s generational saga finds satisfying poignance in the space between the remarkable and the ordinary.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
trailer mix
Mar. 9, 2022
Corgis Replace Sex in the
Bridgerton
Season 2 Trailer
It’s time for the Viscount to get a wife.
By
Devon Ivie
tv review
Jan. 12, 2022
Beneath the Clichés,
Archive 81
Is a Slow-Burning Horror Scorcher
Rebecca Sonnenshine’s podcast-inspired Netflix series effectively chips away at the conviction of our senses.
By
Roxana Hadadi
a key role
Jan. 10, 2022
Mark Ruffalo to Play a Locksmith Dad in Netflix’s
All the Light We Cannot See
Joining Hugh Laurie in the adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s World War II novel.
By
Jennifer Zhan
scott senpai
Jan. 8, 2022
Netflix Wants to Turn Scott Pilgrim Into an Anime Character
The Japanese studio behind
Devilman Crybaby
would provide the animation for the new adaptation.
By
Jennifer Zhan
close reads
Dec. 23, 2021
Station Eleven
Finds the Sublime in the Apocalypse
This pandemic story’s winter 2021 debut seems almost perfectly wrongly timed, but that’s precisely what makes it so perversely satisfying.
By
Hillary Kelly
reality check
Dec. 3, 2021
Maybe
Wheel of Time
Doesn’t Need to Look So Realistic
The series’s elaborate, expensive fantasy world is gorgeous to behold and boring to spend extended time in.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
casting
Nov. 18, 2021
Lizzy Caplan Won’t
Party Down
Owing to Overlap with
Fleishman Is
in Trouble
She’s missing the revival to star in the FX on Hulu limited series with Jesse Eisenberg.
By
Natalie Lin
adaptations
Nov. 12, 2021
Jennifer Garner Is
The Last Thing He Told Me
Show’s New Starring Stepmom
After Julia Roberts pulled out of the role due to a scheduling issue.
By
Justin Curto
popular like me
Nov. 5, 2021
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Will Defy Gravity in
Wicked
Movie
What is this feeling?
By
Alejandra Gularte
treasure!
Oct. 28, 2021
Treasure Hunters
Doc Will Adapt a
New York
Mag Piece That Was Pure Gold
And they’re calling all treasure seekers.
By
Rebecca Alter
adaptations
Oct. 4, 2021
Sterling K. Brown to Stay on the Small Screen With Hulu’s
Washington Black
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the Esi Edugyan novel.
By
Justin Curto
and the stans go wild
Sept. 24, 2021
Teen Wolf
to Howl Again With Revival Movie
Under creator Jeff Davis’s new overall deal with MTV.
By
Zoe Haylock
the streaming wars
Sept. 22, 2021
Netflix Gets the Golden Ticket to Roald Dahl’s Catalogue
Or maybe the goose that lays the golden egg? There’s a lot of money involved.
By
Justin Curto
trailer mix
Sept. 2, 2021
Wheel of Time
Trailer: If You’re Lost You Can Look and You’ll Find Rosamund Pike
She can save or destroy humanity, so no pressure.
By
Devon Ivie
sequels
Aug. 26, 2021
The Old Guard
Will Get the Old Sequel Treatment
Victoria Mahoney will step in for Gina Prince-Bythewood as director.
By
Justin Curto
tv development
Aug. 5, 2021
Colson Whitehead’s
Sag Harbor
in Development at HBO Max
The Underground Railroad
effect.
By
Zoe Haylock
casting couch
July 15, 2021
Robert Downey Jr. to Pivot From Hero to Villain in HBO
The Sympathizer
Series
His first major role since
Avengers: Endgame
is also his first full TV series.
By
Justin Curto
adaptations
July 9, 2021
Kumail Nanjiani to Relive Chaos of Past Few Years in
Homeland Elegies
Adaptation
Ayad Akhtar is adapting his 2020 novel as an FX limited series.
By
Justin Curto
suck it
June 24, 2021
Grab Your Crucifix Recorders,
Interview With the Vampire
Gets Adapted for AMC
The series will be Anne Rice’s first for the network.
By
Devon Ivie
can we get this as a penny press?
June 23, 2021
Disney Making
Tower of Terror
Film As Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster Erasure Continues
Because, sure.
By
Devon Ivie
casting
June 20, 2021
Nicholas Braun Won’t Be a Catboy in the
Cat Person
Movie
Instead of anime Cousin Greg with ears and a tail, we’ll have insecure Cousin Greg dating a college student and being weird about it.
By
Rebecca Alter
adaptations
June 7, 2021
Michelle Zauner’s Memoir
Crying in H Mart
to Get Movie Adaptation
“It is a surreal thrill to have the opportunity to memorialize my mother in film.”
By
Zoe Haylock
red queen
May 25, 2021
Elizabeth Banks, Like a Fish to Water, Returns to YA Adaptations With
Red Queen
Blah blah near-future America, blah blah superpowers, blah blah a fiery young woman born to poverty who changes the system. Obviously we’re in.
By
Rebecca Alter
adaptations
May 18, 2021
7 Ways
The Woman in the Window
Book and Movie Endings Are Different
A look at the Netflix adaptation’s most significant plot changes.
By
Jennifer Zhan
book adaptations
May 6, 2021
HBO to Develop a Scripted Drama Based on E. Lynn Harris’s
Invisible Life
The author’s 1991 novel, the first in a trilogy, follows a young Black man’s journey toward discovering his sexuality.
By
Halle Kiefer
adaptations
May 6, 2021
The Camila Cabello
Cinderella
Will Go to the Ball With Amazon Prime
After it was originally set for release through Sony Pictures.
By
Justin Curto
adaptations
May 3, 2021
Tegan and Sara’s
High School
Series Enrolls at IMDb TV
The duo’s memoir will become a half-hour comedy helmed by
Happiest Season
’s Clea DuVall.
By
Justin Curto
tv review
Apr. 30, 2021
The Mosquito Coast
Is Filled With Unpleasant Wisdom
At its best, the Justin Theroux–starring series delivers the horror-adjacent excitement that comes from wondering how things could possibly get worse.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
trailer mix
Apr. 26, 2021
Hot Priest Becomes Hot Peace Talk Coordinator in
Oslo
Trailer
Andrew Scott and Ruth Wilson star.
By
Rebecca Alter
viewing guide
Apr. 22, 2021
Let’s Illuminate the
Shadow and Bone
Universe
Get ready to step into Netflix’s version of the Grishaverse — and if you just said, “What the hell’s a Grisha?” Congratulations, this is for you.
By
Maggie Fremont
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