adaptations

The film musical Cats bombed at the box office, an epic flop that will go down in history for all the wrong reasons. When director Tom Hooper approached the content, it appears that the spectacle of the onscreen mutations took centre stage…

Art evolves and changes with the times. It reacts, provokes and inspires. Films, literature, music and games have all changed and mutated and evolved into new forms with new ways of telling stories. Video game adaptations have not. Be they…

WTTE Ep23: Adaptation (How does a book become a film?) The book is always better than the film. Or so they say. But there are obviously quite a few problems with this, as there tends to be with any sweeping generalisation. For some,…

When we look back at 20th century literature, there’s an interesting, recurring aspect that runs through the work of the authors lucky enough to have been afforded their own adjective. The novels of George Orwell (Orwellian), Franz Kafka…

Warning - Spoiler for both novel and adaptation of Never Let Me Go “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as…

I had a lot of ill-will built up toward Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are. It wasn’t just the usual enmity for a film adaptation of a book. But you’ve got to understand Maurice Sendak’s classic is the bedrock on which the colours and…

“People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles” – Less Than Zero The enigmatic and resonant first line of Bret Easton Ellis’ debut introduced us to a La La Land of dead souls indulging in excess of all kinds. But for a native…