Genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan named a few of the Stephen King adaptations he feels are underrated. Do you agree with him? The career of genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan is strongly tied to the works of author Stephen King. Flanagan has directed film adaptations of the King novels Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. He tried and failed to bring … Read more
The film industry has been making adaptations of famous books pretty much since movies were invented. Nowadays, if an author publishes even a mildly successful novel, it’s a good bet that a movie studio will swoop in to scoop up the rights—sometimes even before the book is published. With so much of Hollywood dominated by … Read more
Next to video games, anime and manga are some of the most difficult storytelling mediums to translate into live-action. Where there have been many successes—Takashi Miike’s samurai flick Blade of the Immortal, Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel, Higuchinsky’s delightfully gross version of Junji Ito’s horror manga Uzumaki, the Wachowskis’ acid trip Speed Racer—there have been … Read more
Olivia Wilde is teaming up with A24 to adapt Jennifer Egan’s novels A Visit From the Goon Squad and The Candy House to television. Olivia Wilde (Booksmart, Perfect) and A24 are teaming up to adapt Jennifer Egan’s best-selling novel A Visit From the Goon Squad and its sequel The Candy House, for television. Wilde is … Read more
Game adaptations are all the rage in 2023. The Last of Us has been a major hit for HBO Max, and The Super Mario Bros. movie is tracking to do very well theatrically for Illumination. Video game adaptations have been made for almost as long as the medium has existed, and it’s finally looking like … Read more