With Netflix's successful adaptations of video games to TV, here's why Metal Gear, Earthworm Jim, and Metroid should be in the conversation.
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Okay, this time we're flipping things up and looking at five live shows that could make the move to anime: The Boys, Preacher, and more.
BBC Books will publish Eric Saward’s novelization of original Doctor Who series episodes Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks.
With the summer's Television Critics Association (TCA) sessions underway, Amazon Studios is upping its programming slate by announcing three new series.
With production on the second season of Starz's hugely successful American Gods adaption currently underway, author/executive producer Neil Gaiman tweeted out a behind-the-scenes video and self-described "God Squad" group pic that made one thing crystal clear: we're going to "The Rock" - and not Dwayne Johnson.
The Big Short's John Magaro is going from Wall Street crisis to troubles of a slightly more epic (read: global) nature, joining the cast of Netflix's adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba's comic book series The Umbrella Academy.
Amazon Studios continues its push into epic, big scope series programming, securing global rights to bring Iain M. Banks' sci-fi adventure novel Consider Phlebas to series television.
Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is set to trade in horcruxes and dementors for pizza boxes and homicidal animatronic animals, signing on to write, direct and produce Blumhouse’s big screen adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Stephenie Meyer is returning to television — and we're not talking about MTV's 8646th Twilight marathon, either. Tomorrow Studios is set to develop Meyer's conspiracy thriller The Chemist as a television series.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) debuted a miniseries version of Atwood's Alias Grace in September, with the show premiering on Netflix in November.
Anonymous and Paramount has been running the table recently when it comes to book adaptations, including: Catch-22 with George Clooney on Hulu; 13 Reasons Why at Netflix; TNT's The Alienist; and Anne Rice's[...]
She also wrote co-wrote Confessions of a Shopaholic and wrote the teleplays for Lifetime's adaptations of Virginia C Andrew's Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind.
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False Profits marks ABC's third pilot order for the 2018-2019 television season, with the first two having a direct connection to the network's long-running procedural Castle[...]
HBO's vision of the totalitarian future from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is starting to get a little clearer, as the cable giant released the first teaser for their film adaptation of the classic novel.
Thanks for joining us after a two week break for our fifth edition of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool’s live-blog of Syfy‘s Happy! and tonight’s fifth episode, ‘White Sauce? Hot Sauce?".
No one understands the current state of working within television more than writer Grant Morrison (Animal Man, We3), who is currently developing and executive producing Syfy's adaptation of his and Darick Robertson's graphic graphic novel Happy!.
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In 2019, Ebenezer Scrooge is set to be visited by a fourth ghost on Christmas Eve,"The Ghost of Christmas Adaptations," as Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has been tapped to adapt Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and several of the author's other works for BBC One[...]
Broadchurch producer Kudos is developing upcoming female firefighter memoir Through the Fire from Dr. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton for a television series.
But their little game had consequences, and the girls were all expelled in their final year of school under mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the school's eccentric art teacher, Ambrose (who also happens to be Kate's father)."
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Big Little Lies' Alexander Skarsgård has been cast in the upcoming BBC One/AMC series adaptation of John le Carré's The Little Drummer Girl.
Boom! Studios has been making waves over the past few months when it comes to announcing television and film adaptations, and that continued this week with the news that Fox has given a script commitment to Ollie Masters (The Kitchen) and Tyler Jenkins's (Grass Kings) graphic novel Snow Blind.
Adapted by Vaun Wilmott (Prison Break, Dominion, Sons[...]
Here's our first look at Michael Sheen & David Tennant in all of their dyed-hair glory for the series adaptation of the Gaiman/Pratchett’s novel Good Omens.
E! is venturing back into the world of scripted dramatic series television, with the cable network developing Karen M. McManus’s bestselling
I've experienced a modicum of debate in my time over the role of adaptations into the comics medium from prose novels, film, or TV properties and even those with a great respect for the comics medium often undervalue a work that has the "adaptation" label attached, as if that may be a devaluing quality that[...]