adaptation
Work in Memory: The Long Road to Cyrano
Erica Schmidt charts her 17-year journey adapting Cyrano for the stage and then screen with Peter Dinklage, the National and Joe Wright.
Adaptation as Collaboration
Coming Home in the Dark writer-director James Ashcroft on his personal process for bringing the stories of others to the big screen.
The Hand Double
As producer William Horberg explains, The Queen’s Gambit took 30 years to get made – and it was perfect timing.
The 10 Things We Learned Writing a Movie About Our Relationship
The real-life couple behind Men Don't Whisper share their takeaways from the process of turning their hit short film into a feature.
Video Essay: Stephen King at the Movies
With The Dark Tower in theaters and It on the horizon, we look at the many and varied Stephen King adaptations.
John McNaughton Talks Reteaming with Michael Rooker 30 Years After Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
About to embark on an adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," the director ponders how true that is of Rooker.
For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)
Writer and actress Mara Wilson traces her complex relationship over time with Phoebe Gloeckner's book, and then its big-screen version.
Getting Lucky in Hollywood
Best-selling author and narrative expert Lauren Oliver breaks down the unlikely tale of how her novel Before I Fall made it to the big screen.
How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It)
Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life."
How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It)
Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life."
Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them) Talks Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl
A period coming-of-age dramedy, Heller's debut feature is a portrait of adolescence femininity that embraces complexity.
Josh Safdie (Heaven Knows What) and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talk Doug Ellin’s Entourage
Two New York indie filmmakers who are longtime fans of Vinnie Chase and the gang debate how the HBO show fared in its leap to the big screen.
