It's even more astonishing considering its source, a seemingly unadaptable, utterly bizarre novel.
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Will someone attempt an adaptation of the seemingly unadaptable book The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch?
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Author Orson Scott Card said the series was unadaptable because the entire story takes place in the main character's head.
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Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss took a huge gamble in adapting George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, written with the intention of being unadaptable, to the small screen.
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What we want to know is what happened in that writers' room to turn one of the most unadaptable graphic novels in the world into one of the year's most mind-busting shows?
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When it comes to commercial prospects, this adaptation of one of Stephen King's most beloved (and possibly most unadaptable) novels has an open road for most of August, as the last major release of the summer.
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Fuller, in particular, brought the seemingly unadaptable Hannibal Lecter books to TV, and the early episodes of American Gods suggest he might have done the same for this tale of old gods washing up on American shores.
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The growing interest in serial entertainment, on TV and via years-long film series like Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings movies or the Hunger Games films, has done as much to take books off the "unadaptable" shelf as any slackening prudery.
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In 2019, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman will get a wide theatrical release through Netflix, and it just announced an adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's seemingly unadaptable One Hundred Years of Solitude (the success of Roma reportedly played a role in landing the project).
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Archie seems weirdly unadaptable, as much of the comic book revolves around insanely minor problems that wouldn't rate as compelling TV. In a weird twist, I used to be completely obsessed with the Archie and affiliate comic books and would buy them every time I saw them on the grocery store newsstand.
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Stanley Kauffmann's review for The New Republic was titled "The Unadaptable Adapted."Bigsby, Christopher, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller, Second Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p. 294. A more favorable review came from The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, who praised Sidney Lumet's realistic depiction of the Brooklyn waterfront and his choice of actors but believed that principal character Eddie Carbone lacked depth and dimension.
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Capability is mainly about ability, which can be affected by aptitude, health or physical or mental qualityERA 1996 s 98(2)(a) \- commonly lack of exams or talent. In others words the employee can't do the job. Incapability has been distinguished from misconduct as being "sheer incapability due to an inherent incapacity to function".Sutton & Gates (Luton) Ltd v Boxall [1978] ICR 176 The underperforming,Fletcher v St Leonards EAT 1987, EAT 25/87 or unadaptable and inflexibleAbernethy v Mott, Hay and Anderson [1974] ICR 323 employee could be fairly dismissed on ground of capability.
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238 Author David Bennett observes that Montgomery had almost certainly been fed gross misinformation that supported his own prejudices. A month later, Browning wrote a long and highly critical letter of Sosabowski to Brooke's deputy. In it, he accused Sosabowski of being difficult, unadaptable, argumentative and "loth to play his full part in the operation unless everything was done for him and his brigade". It is possible that Browning himself wanted to make Sosabowski a scapegoat, although it may equally have been the work of officers of the 43rd Division.
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In 1921, Richard Rowland, the head of Metro, paid $20,000 and 10% of the gross earning for Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. The epic bestseller had been considered unadaptable by every major studio but Rowland handed the book to Mathis for adaptation and was so impressed with her screenplay that he asked her input on director and star. Mathis had seen Rudolph Valentino in a bit part in Eyes of Youth, and she exerted her influence to cast Valentino. Studio heads resisted hiring an unknown actor for a lead role.Leider. 2003. p.
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Japp has been promoted to Assistant Commissioner of the Met, and in the episode he assumes the role of Poirot's sidekick, whereas it was Hastings who filled the position in the novel. The guest cast includes Nick Day as Ingles, James Carroll Jordan as Ryland, Patricia Hodge as Madame Olivier, Steven Pacey as Paynter and Sarah Parish as Flossie. The episode is very loosely based on the novel, considered by writer Mark Gatiss to be "an almost unadaptable mess". Most of the novel's plot points, for instance, have been removed, including the death of Mayerling in Poirot's flat, the radium exploit involving Madame Olivier, Hastings' time as Ryland's secretary, and Poirot's subterfuge as Achille, his purported sibling.
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David P. Goldman David Paul Goldman (born September 27, 1951) is an American economist, music critic, and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler. The pseudonym is an allusion to German historian Oswald Spengler, whose most famous work, Decline of the West (1918), asserted that Western civilization was already dying. Goldman says that he writes from a Judeo-Christian perspective and often focuses on demographic and economic factors in his analyses; he says his subject matter proceeds "from the theme formulated by [Franz] Rosenzweig: the mortality of nations and its causes, Western secularism, Asian anomie, and unadaptable Islam." On March 14, 2015, Goldman and longtime Asia Times associate Uwe Von Parpart took control of Asia Times HK Ltd.
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He noted that the book had previously proved "stubbornly unadaptable", the most successful version being the Hollywood picture starring Laurence Olivier, which succeeded because "with classic Hollywood ruthlessness they filleted out the Cathy/Heathcliff story and ditched the rest of the plot. It's a great film but it does the novel a disservice." Bowker hoped to "open up some of the other themes, not least the story of how damage is passed down through generations, how revenge poisons the innocent and the guilty, how the destructive nature of hate always threatens to overwhelm the redemptive power of love" but acknowledged that "structurally, the novel is notoriously difficult". Faced with this "complex and sometimes frustrating structure" Bowker decided to reassemble the plot of the novel in chronological order and read it again.
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In the 1920s, studies by the celebrated palaeontologists Alfred Romer and Gerhard Heilmann (Heilmann, 1926) had confirmed that dinosaurs had broad avian-like hips rather than those of a typical reptile. Knight often restored extinct mammals, birds and marine reptiles in very dynamic action poses, but his depictions of large dinosaurs as ponderous swamp-dwellers destined for extinction reflected more traditional concepts (Paul, 1996). In his catalogue to Life through the Ages (1946), he reiterated views that he had written earlier (Knight, 1935), describing the great beasts as "slow-moving dunces" that were "unadaptable and unprogressive" while conceding that small dinosaurs had been more active. Some of his pictures are now known to be wrong, such as the tripod kangaroo-like posture of the hadrosaurs and theropods, whereas their spinal column was roughly horizontal at the hip; and the sauropods standing deeply in water whereas they were land-dwellers.
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Although applying to the whole of Battersea, defined in the survey as "the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea and those wards of Wandsworth Borough .... along the river to the east of Putney Bridge", Margot Jeffrey's 1954 book analyses employment in the wider area through specific comparisons between Battersea and Dagenham. At that time, Battersea's industries were "old-established" and "policies of industrial dispersion" were feared to have a detrimental potential in "districts such as Battersea where the resident population is declining". She then elaborates by saying that Battersea would represent one such area where "the young move out, leaving an industrial population which is predominantly middle-aged and elderly, and in consequence highly unadaptable to industrial change". A series of closures in the secondary industry sector and associated with primary and secondary employment in the late 70's and mid 80's, such as: Battersea Power Station in 1975, a Tate & Lyle factory on York Place in 1980 and the large Airfix Factory on Haldane Place in next-door Earlsfield in 1981 all had a negative impact on employment prospects within the local area.
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