Posts tagged adaptation in 2012
John Carter
Not a disaster or a game-changer, but well worth a look.
Off the Page Dept.
On filming the "unfilmable", or when writing becomes a multi-media enterprise.
For The Girls (And The Boys, Too) Dept.
Let's see some live-action anime projects in the West that are shojo stories.
Big Eyes Small Market Dept.
Five issues facing live-action adaptations of anime, dissected.
Best Original Screenplay Dept.
Is SF better when written directly for the screen, instead of adapted from another source?
No Longer Human / Ningen Shikkaku (2010)
A glitzy and hollow adaptation of a book that was anything but those two things.
Pride Before A Fall Dept.
While grousing elsewhere about the Akira live-action adaptation -- which now mercifully seems to be off the table -- I used the term "insider's hubris". This was a phrase I coined a while back to describe the kind of disconnect...
