Adaptation Archives

A Plague Tale Television Adaptation Announced

Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 18, 2022 | 1

The award-winning game A Plague Tale: Innocence is getting a television adaption from Merlin Productions and Focus Entertainment, as reported by Matthieu Turi to English-speaking fans on his Twitter account. Turi, best known for assistant directing Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, will be...

REVIEW: The Prince of Egypt (1998)

virginiakublawi | Sep 17, 2020 | 2

The Prince of Egypt was DreamWorks SKG’s second film release and their first traditionally animated movie. In 1998, a faith-based, $60 million epic was quite a gamble for the fledgling animation studio. Simon Wells, Steve Hickner, and former Disney story artist Brenda Chapman would direct the fil...

Disney+ to Adapt Kingdom Hearts Games With Original Voice Actors

virginiakublawi | May 27, 2020 | 0

Kingdom Hearts is coming to Disney+ in the form of a TV show. Jeremy Conrad reported that the house of Mouse will be bringing the iconic Square Enix video game franchise to the animated series format. Several voice actors, including Bill Farmer as Goofy, are returning to their roles. Brett: Virginia...

Jon Spaihts To Write Dune Sequel

brettstevens | Nov 13, 2019 | 2

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Passengers writer Jon Spaihts will now pen the sequel to director Dennis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated Frank Herbert adaptation Dune. He also co-wrote the Villeneuve film with Eric Roth and the Blade Runner 2049 filmmaker following his ouster as showrunner of...

Ludi Lin May Play Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat

brettstevens | Aug 19, 2019 | 1

Power Rangers and Aquaman star Ludi Lin is in talks to portray Liu Kang in the upcoming film adaptation of video game franchise Mortal Kombat. If the negotiations bear fruit, he will succeed Robin Shou, who played the character in 1995’s Mortal Kombat and 1997’s much-maligned Mortal Kombat: Anni...

Akira Rides Toward a May 2021 Release

brettstevens | May 28, 2019 | 0

Deadline reports that Warner Bros. has set Taika Watiti’s Akira film for a May 2021 release. This is news I’ve been hoping to hear for a long time. I remember a few years ago when Jaume Collet-Serra was attached to direct an adaptation of the iconic manga, and Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart...