Schumacher claims he originally had in mind an adaptation of Frank Miller's Batman: Year One.

While this may not be a direct adaptation, it does resemble the scene with the hostage situation in Batman: Year One, only replacing James Gordon with Harvey Dent ( Aaron Eckhart ).

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

One abridged adaptation is authored by Agustín Sánchez, which runs slightly over 150 pages, cutting away about 750 pages.

In 1934 he directed One More River, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by John Galsworthy.

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One key adaptation is the fusing of bones into single ossifications, such as the pygostyle.

One of his first efforts was the 1977 Die Konsequenz, a b / w 16 mm adaptation of Alexander Ziegler's autobiographical novel of homosexual love, a movie considered " one of the best ` 70s gay dramas ".

One branch would evolve into cetaceans, possibly beginning about with the proto-whale Pakicetus and other early whale ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti, which eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely aquatic cetaceans.

These include A Clockwork Orange, The Snake Pit, Quantum Leap ( TV series ), Stargate, Frances, Requiem for a Dream, the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey as well as the movie adaptation, Melrose Place, A Beautiful Mind, The Caretaker, The Best of Youth, House ; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shine, The Beverly Hillbillies ( film ), the film version of Girl, Interrupted, Insanitarium, Changeling, Ciao!

A damning portrayal of the procedure is found in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and its 1975 movie adaptation.

One branch would evolve into cetaceans, possibly beginning with the proto-whale Pakicetus from 52 million years ago with other early whale ancestors collectively known as Archaeoceti, which eventually underwent aquatic adaptation into the completely aquatic cetaceans.

In spite of initial difficulties, he started directing in the United States, and achieved success in 1975 with the adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

One adaptation helping both predators and prey avoid detection is camouflage, a form of crypsis where species have an appearance which helps them blend into the background.

In 2005, BBC One broadcast an adaptation for the ShakespeaRe-Told series, written by Sally Wainwright and directed by Dave Richards, which set the story in modern-day Britain, with Katherine ( played by Shirley Henderson ) as an abrasive career politician who is told she must find a husband if she wants to become the party leader.

Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist's critically praised vampire story Låt Den Rätte Komma In ( 2004 ) about the relationship of a 12-year-old boy with a 200-year-old vampire child has now been translated into English as Let the Right One In ( 2007 ) and a film adaptation has been produced.

One passage of the Aetia, the so called Coma Berenices, has been reconstructed from papyrus remains and the celebrated Latin adaptation of Catullus ( Catullus 66 ).

In the 2008 TV adaptation of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, by Sky One, he appears in both human and orang-utan form.

One story is that it comes from fur traders with the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) and is an adaptation of " Tail-a-Koom ", the name of an Indian chief.

One type of genetic adaptation needed was the altering of the digestive processes of animals like cows to allow them to digest the boron-heavy grass successfully and without ill-effects.

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

That same year he played his role as Mr. Woodhouse in a television adaptation of Jane Austen's famously irrepressible Emma, a four-hour miniseries that premiered on BBC One in October 2009, co-starring Jonny Lee Miller and Romola Garai.

One of Baker's first acting jobs, in 1970, was a supporting role in a BBC adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy The Roads to Freedom.

By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

He sought to adapt it on numerous occasions, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear onscreen ( Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of the themes of The Demolished Man ).

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.

A film adaptation of The Illustrated Man was released in 1969.

Director Zack Snyder is attached to direct, at least in part, a film adaptation of three stories from The Illustrated Man: " The Illustrated Man ", " Veldt ", and " Concrete Mixer ".

The National Theatre of Scotland then produced a musical adaptation of The Wicker Man called An Appointment with the Wicker Man.

Though referred to as " the first modern vampire novel ", it is as a novel of social theme that I Am Legend made a lasting impression on the cinematic zombie genre, by way of director George A. Romero, who acknowledged its influence and that of its 1964 adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, upon his seminal film Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

He also began developing bluescreen techniques: one of the first films to use them was the 1958 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy.

Beaumont wrote many scripts for the Twilight Zone, including an adaptation of his own short story, " The Howling Man ", starring John Carradine, and the hour-long " The Valley of the Shadow ," in which a newspaper reporter stumbles upon a cloistered technological Utopia, disguised as an ordinary small town in the middle of nowhere, which refuses to allow its startlingly-advanced science discoveries to be given to the outside world, citing humanity's previous misuse of another scientific formula E = mc2 as their cautious rationale.

He shaved his trademark mane of hair to play the role of Obadiah Stane in the 2008 Marvel comic book adaptation Iron Man.

Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ) was the first theatrical movie adaptation of an Asimov story or novel, based on both Asimov's original short story and its novel expansion The Positronic Man.

In 1969, he appeared in the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with his then-wife, Claire Bloom.

He also played Peter Pupkin in Sunshine Sketches, the CBC Television adaptation of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, and had an uncredited ( and unconfirmed ) minor role in the 1964 television film John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance.

In 1972, he played both Miguel de Cervantes and his fictional creation Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, the motion picture adaptation of the 1965 smash hit Broadway musical, opposite Sophia Loren.

McKean quickly became a recognizable name in film and television, with appearances in films such as Used Cars ( 1980 ), Clue ( 1985 ), Planes, Trains and Automobiles ( 1987 ), Earth Girls Are Easy ( 1988 ), the film adaptation of Memoirs of an Invisible Man ( 1992 ), Coneheads ( 1993 ), and Radioland Murders ( 1994 ).

* 30 Rock characters Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney perform an adaptation of the skit, but much like Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, do so without understanding the joke.

The film adaptation of The Thin Man was a resounding success, and although Hammett never wrote another novel with Nick and Nora Charles, five movie sequels were produced.

In 1943 a film adaptation was made of the series also titled It's That Man Again.

In 1993 he and Des McAnuff wrote and directed the Broadway adaptation of the Who album Tommy, as well as a less successful stage musical based on his solo album The Iron Man, based upon the book by Ted Hughes.

Scott's films at Paramount include the aforementioned Go West, Young Man ( 1936 ), which reunited him with director Henry Hathaway and is Mae West's adaptation of Lawrence Riley's Broadway hit comedy Personal Appearance ; So Red the Rose ( 1936 ), directed by King Vidor and starring Margaret Sullavan ; and High, Wide, and Handsome.