Adapt or Perish

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at the most miraculous little girl in the history of English literature, Roald Dahl's Matilda!

In this episode we discuss:

• The original 1988 novel.
• The 1996 movie, directed by Danny DeVito, written by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and starring Mara Wilson, DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris.
• The 2010 musical, book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.

Footnotes:

• Matilda at 30
• Mara Wilson and More Reveal 13 Things You Never Knew About Matilda from Thrillist
• Mara Wilson's 2016 book Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
• Afternoon Tea: A Matilda Reunion
• Groundhog Day: The Musical
• The "pantomime dame"

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"Somewhere, a crime is being committed." In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we tackle the officer who's part man, part machine, and all RoboCop.

In this episode we discuss:

• The 1987 original, directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Miguel Ferrer, and Kurtwood Smith.
• The 2014 remake, directed by José Padilha, written by Joshua Zetumer (with credit to Neumeier and Miner), and starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Footnotes:

• Leeza (1993–2000)
• You Can't Do That on Television (1979–1990)
• MTV's Loveline (1996–2000)
• Commando (1985), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), starring Sylvester Stallone
• Letterkenny (2016–present)
• Writing Advice from Matt Stone & Trey Parker

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It's episode 75 of Adapt or Perish! With this minor milestone episode, it's time for more Jane Austen with a look at Sense and Sensibility!

In this episode we discuss:

• Jane Austen's original 1811 novel.
• The 1971 miniseries, directed by David Giles, written by Denis Constanduros, and starring Joanna David and Ciaran Madden.
• The 1981 miniseries, directed by Rodney Bennett, written by Alexander Baron, and starring Irene Richard and Tracey Childs.
• The 1995 theatrical movie, directed by Ang Lee, written by Emma Thompson, and starring Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman.
• The 2008 miniseries, directed by John Alexander, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Hattie Morahan, Charity Wakefield, Dominic Cooper, Dan Stevens, and David Morrissey.

Footnotes:

• On the topic of Austen on Adapt or Perish:
  • Pride and Prejudice, Part 1 on Apple Podcasts and the web
  • Pride and Prejudice, Part 2 on Apple Podcasts and the web
  • Pride and Prejudice, Part 3 on Apple Podcasts and the web
• Patricia Routledge and Keeping Up Appearances
• Dead Again (1991), produced by Lindsay Doran, directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Branagh and Emma Thompson.
• Myriam François-Cerrah (born Emilie François)

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the British heist classic, The Italian Job! And also another movie! That's not quite a classic! But it's called The Italian Job, too! Also Bollywood!

In this episode we discuss:

• The Italian Job (Paramount, 1969), directed by Peter Collinson, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and starring Michael Caine, Benny Hill, and Noël Coward.
• The Italian Job (Paramount, 2003), directed by F. Gary Gray, written by Donna and Wayne Powers, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, and Donald Sutherland.
• Players (Viacom 18, 2012), directed by Abbas-Mustan, written by Rohit Jugraj and Sudip Sharma, and starring Abhishek Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Sonam Kapoor, and Neil Nitin Mukesh.

Footnotes:

• Dueling Michael Caines from The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon
• Napster, Napster, and Napster
• Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (Yash Raj Films, 2001)
• Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Fox Star Studios, 2019)

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In this very lurid, very trashy, very claustrophobic episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at V.C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic!

In this episode we discuss:

• V.C. Andrews' original 1979 novel.
• The 1987 theatrical movie, written and directed by Jeffrey Bloom and starring Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Victoria Tennant, and Louise Fletcher.
• The 2014 Lifetime Original, directed by Deborah Chow, written by Kayla Alpert, and starring Kiernan Shipka, Mason Dye, Heather Graham, and Ellen Burstyn.

Footnotes:

• Amanda Palmer, The Dresden Dolls, and An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer
• Aerial America
• Castle Hill in Ipswich, Massachusetts
• Pris from Blade Runner

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We must be crazy to do it, but in this episode of Adapt or Perish we're taking to the skies with Joseph Heller's Catch-22!

In this episode we discuss:

• Joseph Heller's original 1961 novel.
• The 1970 movie, directed by Mike Nichols, written by Buck Henry, and starring Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, Martin Sheen, and Orson Welles.
• The 1973 TV pilot, starring Richard Dreyfuss. Watch it (or don't) on YouTube.
• The 2019 miniseries, written and developed by Luke Davies and David Michôd, produced and directed by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Ellen Kuras, and starring Clooney, Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh Laurie.

Footnotes:

• Moonrise Kingdom (2012), written and directed by Wes Anderson
• The Many Voices of Frank Welker
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), directed by Edgar Wright
• Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), written and directed by Drew Goddard

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In this completely honest and in no way deceitful or manipulative episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the many versions of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!

In this episode we discuss:

• Bedtime Story (Universal, 1964), directed by Ralph Levy, written by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning, and starring David Niven, Marlon Brando, and Shirley Jones.
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Orion, 1988), directed by Frank Oz, written by Dale Launer, Shapiro, and Henning, and starring Michael Caine, Steve Martin, and Glenne Headly.
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: The Musical (2004), music and lyrics by David Yazbek, book by Jeffrey Lane, and originally starring John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz.
• The Hustle (MGM, 2019), directed by Chris Addison, written by Jac Schaeffer, Launer, Shapiro, and Henning, and starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.

Footnotes:

• Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
• The original teaser for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Sherie Rene Scott sings "April's Ballad" from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells tour
• Patton Oswalt on doing "punch up"
• We were on another podcast! We were invited onto the Castle of Horror podcast to speak with host and author Jason Henderson as part of their "Castle Talk" interview series, and had a ton of fun. Listen to it on the web or on Apple Podcasts.

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It's finally time to journey back to Concord! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we return to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women with a much more thorough look at the decades of adaptations of her classic story.

In this episode we discuss:

• Episode 7 of Adapt or Perish (which you should probably listen to before this episode).
• The 1933 movie, directed by George Cukor, written by David Hempstead, Victor Heerman, and Sarah Y. Mason, and starring Katharine Hepburn.
• The 1949 movie, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Andrew Solt, Victor Heerman, and Sarah Y. Mason, and starring June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor.
• The 1950 two-part TV special, starring Nancy Marchand.
• The 1970 BBC miniseries, adapted by Denis Constanduros and Alistair Bell, and starring Angela Down, Jo Rowbottom, and Patrick Troughton.
• The 1978 NBC miniseries, directed by David Lowell Rich, written by Suzanne Clauser, and starring Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter Birney, Greer Garson, and William Shatner.
• The 1980 anime TV special, produced by Toei Animation.
• The 1994 movie, directed by Gillian Armstrong, written by Robin Swicord, and starring Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon, Christian Bale, and Gabriel Byrne.
• The 2017 Masterpiece miniseries, directed by Vanessa Caswill, written by Heidi Thomas, and starring Maya Hawke, Emily Watson, Michael Gambon, and Angela Lansbury.
• The 2018 modern-day movie, directed by Clare Niederpruem, written by Niederpruem and Kristi Shimek, and starring Sarah Davenport, Lucas Grabeel, and Lea Thompson.
• The 2019 movie, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep.

Footnotes

• We were on another podcast! We were invited onto the Castle of Horror podcast to speak with host and author Jason Henderson as part of their "Castle Talk" interview series, and had a ton of fun. Listen to it on the web or on Apple Podcasts.

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If you're able, please consider donations to one or more of these groups and organizations:

• Black Lives Matter
• The George Floyd Memorial Fund
• The Minnesota Freedom Fund (or try to find a group near you that's organizing bail in your area)
• Black Visions Collective
• Reclaim the Block

It's been almost three years since the first time we looked at Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and this time we're doing it right! We're revisiting the classic with a three-part look at the classic filmed adaptations, and the some of the more out-there adaptations, too!

In this episode—Part Three of Three—we look at six non-traditional theatrical remakes of Jane Austen's classic romance:

• Bridget Jones's Diary (Miramax, 2001), directed by Sharon Maguire, written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding, and starring Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth.
• Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (Excel Entertainment Group, 2003), directed by Andrew Black, written by Anne Black, Jason Faller, and Katherine Swigert, and starring Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale.
• Bride & Prejudice (Miramax, 2004), directed by Gurinder Chadha, written by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges, and starring Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson.
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Pemberley Digital, 2012–2013), created by Hank Green and Bernie Su, directed by Su and Margaret Dunlap, and starring Ashley Clements and Daniel Vincent Gordh.
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Lionsgate, 2016), written and directed by Burr Steers, and starring Lily James and Sam Riley. Based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.
• Pride & Prejudice: Atlanta (Lifetime, 2019), directed by Rhonda Baraka, written by Tracy McMillan, and starring Tiffany Hines and Juan Antonio.

Footnotes:

• Part One of this new look at Pride and Prejudice on Adapt or Perish
• And Part Two!

You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us and all of our show notes online at adaptorperishcast.com.

If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at [email protected] or tweet using #adaptcast.

If you're able, please consider donations to one or more of these groups and organizations:

• Black Lives Matter
• The George Floyd Memorial Fund
• The Minnesota Freedom Fund (or try to find a group near you that's organizing bail in your area)
• Black Visions Collective
• Reclaim the Block

It's been almost three years since the first time we looked at Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and this time we're doing it right! We're revisiting the classic romance with a three-part look at the classic filmed adaptations, and the some of the more out-there adaptations, too!

In this episode—Part Two of Three—we re-discuss the last of the traditional Pride and Prejudice adaptations:

• Pride and Prejudice (BBC/A&E, 1995), directed by Simon Langton, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.
• Pride and Prejudice (Focus Features, 2005), directed by Joe Wright, written by Deborah Moggach, and starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.

Footnotes:

• Part One of this new look at Pride and Prejudice on Adapt or Perish
• How to adapt Jane Austen for the screen, with Andrew Davies
• Jennifer Ehle reading all of Pride and Prejudice on her YouTube channel

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