Hosts Kendyl, Dorin, Ryan and Chase get together to discuss Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale and its two movie adaptations: Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 Total Recall and the current Len Wiseman remake.
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Corey and Dorin discuss Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina, the destructiveness of Anna’s relationship and the Russian aristocracy she was part of.
Also check out our episode on the 2012 film!
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Kendyl and first-time host Nicole sit down to talk about some interviews Kendyl did at the From Page To Screen festival earlier this year. The interview with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Salmon Fishing in the Yeman, Catching Fire) gets the girls excited for the new Hunger Games installment as well as discussing the role of screenwriters in film making. The interview with English and Film lecturer at the University of Exeter, Dr. Corinna Wagner about DH Lawrence’s Women in Love and the 1969 adaptation leads into quite the discussion about how relationships are viewed today.
A special thanks to everyone at From Page to Screen for making these interviews possible!
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Kendyl, Corey and Dorin finally get to see the film Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax and then discuss the high school experience via Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Discussion of Perks starts at 31:47
Also, check out our episode on the Perks film!
*WARNING*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower contains mentions of child molestation, rape, suicide, teen pregnancy, abortion, drugs, sex, and mental health issues. As such, they are all a part of our discussion. If any of this offends you or could be a trigger for you, please proceed with caution.
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Kendyl, Jess and Ryan get together to discuss their reactions to The Dark Knight Rises: the surprises, the predictions and the debatable satisfaction received from THAT ENDING. Also, they get a little too distracted by the logistics of that bomb and how much can actually be accomplished in 11 minutes.
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In episode #13, the hosts gush over The Amazing Spider-man, verbally flog M. Knight Shyamalamadingdong’s The Last Airbender and then profess their love to the television version.
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Episode #12 brings to you the host’s opinions on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter the film and comes to the conclusion that we should write all the scripts in Hollywood from now on.
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In episode #11 discussion of Snow White and the Huntsman and the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter leads to talk of awkward accents, hot archers, and history lessons from fiction novels. Plus some lessons that Disney probably shouldn’t have taught us.
In the 10th episode of Adaptation (hurray for double digits!), the hosts gather to discuss Joss Whedon’s The Avengers based on the Marvel comics and Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows based on the 1966 cult soap opera.
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Everyone is back to talk about the Grimm Brothers’ Little Snow White and Tarsem Singh’s Mirror, Mirror (2012) plus many other interesting and occasionally disturbing adaptations of the classic fairytale.
On the last morning of Bridport’s From Page to Screen festival, host Kendyl Bryant sits down with festival committee members Maisie Glazebrook, Polly Gifford, Paul Marshall and Nic Jeune as well as this year’s guest curator Francine Stock to discuss From Page to Screen‘s origins, objectives and favorites moments from this year.
Adaptation has some exciting news!
In a fated cataclysm of events, Adaptation is being allowed to attend and cover Bridport’s From Page to Screen film festival. This year, the festival will be curated by BBC Radio 4’s Francine Stock and host a long list of exciting guests such as The Woman in Black‘s director James Watkins, screenwriter Miora Buffini and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen‘s screenwriter Simon Beaufoy.
Host Kendyl Bryant will be journeying to Bridport for the festival this coming week to get the scoop from the planning committee and guests on the festival itself and the ups and downs of adapting the written word for film.
Stay tuned for episodes to come!
MEGA apologies to anyone who downloaded Adaptation #7: Seneca Crane’s Beard Invalidates Your Argument on the first day that it came out and found that it was missing the last 6 minutes.
The problem has been fixed, as have all the links and a quick re-download will get you the complete episode.
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First time host Dorin joins the rest of the crew to discuss the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, how it compares to the book, what the filmmakers did brilliantly and what opportunities they missed.
Our other HG episodes: The Hunger Games (book), Catching Fire (book) (movie), and Mockingjay (book) (first movie).
Our hosts are joined by friend and fellow Hunger Games fan Chase Pifer to discuss Suzanne Collins’s brilliant young adult dystopian novel and make predictions for the March 23rd movie release.
Our other HG episodes: The Hunger Games (movie), Catching Fire (book) (movie), and Mockingjay (book) (first movie).
and dressed up as Katniss’s prep team!
Plus, we saw (and got autographs from) Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth and Jennifer Lawrence! Josh Hucherson was there, but kinda missed our section. Oh well!
For more awesome pictures, head over to our newly added Photos section!
In the fifth episode of Adaptation, our hosts discuss the movie One for the Money (and Corey vents her frustration). This is followed up by gushing over the brilliance that is Dr. Seuss, analyzing The Lorax and predicting where the film will go right.
In this jam-packed episode, Kendyl, Jess and Corey discuss Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money and Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black.
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Hello Adaptations listeners!
I hope everyone had a great holiday season. We’re quite far into the new year now, I know, and it’s been a long time since we’ve had an episode or an update.
I have to admit, this is my fault. I kept meaning to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I just never did. Jess, on the other hand, ever the responsible one, has read it and will be our authority on it for the upcoming episode.
Speaking of which, it’s going to be a crazy one. Since we’ve been gone for so long, and I feel like we’ve missed a lot, we’re going to be jamming three books into a single Adaptation.
As I mentioned, Jess will be heading up Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo discussion, Corey will be back again to talk about Janet Evanovich’s One For the Money and I will have read Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black. It’s a lot to fit in one episode, but we’ll try to keep it brief and do each novel justice.
Until then, happy reading!
Other Current Book-to-Movie Projects:
Big Miracle (Book) (Movie)
The Vow (Book) (Movie)
The Secret World of Arrietty (Book) (Movie)
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