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We're letting our imaginations run wild in episode 105 of Adapt or Perish as we take a look at the classic tale of escapist fantasy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty!

In this episode we discuss:

• James Thurber's original 1938 short story
• The 1947 movie, directed by Norman Z. McLeod, written by Ken Englund and Everett Freeman, and starring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, and Boris Karloff
• The 2013 movie, directed by Ben Stiller, written by Steve Conrad, and starring Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, and Sean Penn

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In this mixed-up episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at the museum stowaway classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!

In this episode we discuss:

• E.L. Konigsburg's original 1967 novel
• The 1973 theatrical movie, also released as The Hideaways, directed by Fielder Cook, written by Blanch Hanalis, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, and Johnny Doran
• The 1995 television movie, directed by Marcus Cole, written by Betty Goldberg, and starring Lauren Bacall, Jean Marie Barnwell, and Jesse Lee Soffer

Footnotes:

• "The Thrilling Gardner Museum Heist" from BuzzFeed Unsolved
• Claudia's Puzz 3D: Bavarian Castle

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Happy Halloween! We didn't want to break our streak of getting spooky for the holiday, so for episode 103 we're diving into sci-fi horror with the paranoid classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

In this episode we discuss:

• The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney's original 1956 novel
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), directed by Don Siegel, written by Daniel Mainwaring, and starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, and Larry Gates
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W.D. Richter, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright
• Body Snatchers (1993), directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Nicholas St. John, and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker
• The Invasion (2007), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by David Kajganich, and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright

Footnotes:

• Capgras delusion
• "This is Reality" from TV Tropes
• Jeff Goldblum's IMDb profile
• "Why 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' Still Haunts Its Director", The Hollywood Reporter's interview with Philip Kaufman
• Roger Ebert's Review of Body Snatchers (1993)
• Meg Tilly's blog post about her Body Snatchers body double
• "Cool Glitch Effect On Movie Studio Logo Must Mean Shit About To Go Down" from The Onion

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Episode 102 of Adapt or Perish is here, and it's time for our Four Year Spectacular! In it, we'll look back at the best (and worst) adaptations that this past year has given us.

In this episode we discuss the episodes in which we discussed:

• The Addams Family
• High Fidelity
• Christmas in Connecticut
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Parent Trap
• 3:10 to Yuma
• Emma (and Clueless)
• Valley of the Dolls
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• A Little Princess
• Wings of Desire and City of Angels
• The Witches
• Stuart Little
• Wuthering Heights
• Planet of the Apes
• Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
• The Stepford Wives
• Les Misérables
• 101 Dalmatians

Footnotes:

• A picture of Enrica Soma, Anjelica Huston's mother
• @hayleymills_official on Instagram

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What better way is there to commemorate episode 101 of Adapt or Perish than with a look at the Disney classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians?

In this episode we discuss:

• Dodie Smith's original 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Disney's 1961 animated movie, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman, and written by Bill Peet
• 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action remake, directed by Stephen Herek, written by John Hughes, and starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, and Hugh Laurie

Footnotes:

• I Capture the Castle
• The Starlight Barking
• Nothing Like a Dame (released in the United States as Tea With the Dames)

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Episode 100 of Adapt or Perish has finally arrived, and with it we bring the last installment of our three-part look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. And this one is all. About. The musical.

Listen to our prior installments:

• Part One and Part Two on the web
• Part One and Part Two on Apple Podcasts
• Part One and Part Two on Overcast
• Part One and Part Two on Spotify

In this episode we discuss:

• Les Misérables, the 1980 concept album and 1985 musical, music by Claude-Michael Schönberg and lyrics by Alain Boublil and Harold Kretzmer
• Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert, the 1995 filmed concert, directed by Gavin Taylor, and starring Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Lea Salonga, and Michael Ball
• Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary, the 2010 filmed concert, directed by Nick Morris, and starring Alfie Boe, Norm Lewis, Nick Jonas, Samantha Barks, and Lea Salonga
• Les Misérables, the 2012 movie musical, directed by Tom Hooper, screenplay by William Nicholson, and starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, and Samantha Barks
• Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, the 2019 filmed concert, directed by Nick Morris, and starring Alfie Boe, Michael Ball, Matt Lucas, and Carrie Hope Fletcher

Footnotes:

• Hey, Mr. Producer! (1998)
• Miss Saigon (1989)
• "Why the Music in Les Misérables (2012) is Worse than you Thought" by Sideways on YouTube

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It's time for part two of our three-part look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables! Today, we're looking at six more French- and English-language screen adaptations, released from 1978 to 2018.

Listen to part one on:

• The web
• Apple Podcasts
• Overcast
• Spotify

In this episode we discuss:

• The 1978 American TV movie, directed by Glenn Jordan, written by John Gay, and starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
• The 1982 French movie, directed by Robert Hossein, written by Hossein and Alain Decaux, and starring Lino Ventura and Michel Bouquet
• The 1998 American movie, directed by Bille August, written by Rafael Yglesias, and starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes
• The 2000 French miniseries, directed by Josée Dayan, written by Didier Decoin, and starring Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Christian Clavier, and Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Shōjo Cosette, the 2007 Japanese animated series, directed by Hiroaki Sakurai and written by Tomoko Motohashi
• The 2018 British miniseries, directed by Tom Shankland, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo, Lily Collins, and Olivia Colman

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It's time for us to start our three-episode look at Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, which concludes in our 100th episode! With today's episode 98, we're look at the book, and six major French- and English-language adaptations from 1934 to 1967.

In this episode we discuss:

• Victor Hugo's original 1862 novel
• The 1934 French three-part movie, directed by Raymond Bernard, written by Bernard and André Lang, and starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel
• The 1935 American movie, directed by Richard Boleslawski, written by W.P. Lipscomb, and starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton
• The 1937 American radio drama, directed by, written by, and starring Orson Welles
• The 1952 American movie, directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Richard Murphy, and starring Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, and Edmund Gwenn
• The 1958 French movie, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, written by Michel Audiard and René Barjavel, and starring Jean Gabin and Bernard Blier
• The 1967 British television series, directed by Alan Bridges, written by Giles Cooper and Harry Green, and starring Frank Finlay and Anthony Bate

Footnotes:

• Les Misérables and France's Many Revolutions from Khan Academy

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Episode 97 of Adapt or Perish just moved in, and gosh, isn't Stepford simply beautiful? In this episode, we're taking a look at The Stepford Wives! Who are brainwashed or robots, maybe? It's complicated.

In this episode we discuss:

• Ira Levin's original 1972 novel
• The 1975 movie adaptation, directed by Bryan Forbes, written by William Goldman, and starring Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, and Tina Louise
• The 2004 remake, directed by Frank Oz, written by Paul Rudnick, and starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, and Christopher Walken

Footnotes:

• Rosemary's Baby
• Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky
• Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
• Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
• The Stepford Children (1987)
• The Stepford Husbands (1996)
• In & Out (1997)
• Frank Oz on The Stepford Wives
• Bette's Midler's insane deleted scene

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We're finally getting to one of our most requested episodes: Daphne du Maurier's romantic thriller Rebecca! This episode is truly putting the perish in Adapt or Perish.

In this episode we discuss:

• Daphne du Maurier's original 1938 novel
• The 1940 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Philip MacDonald, and Michael Hogan, and starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, and Judith Anderson
• The 1979 miniseries directed by Simon Langton, written by Hugh Whitemore, and starring Joanna David, Jeremy Brett, and Anna Massey
• The 1997 miniseries directed by Jim O'Brien, written by Arthur Hopcraft, and starring Emilia Fox, Charles Dance, and Diana Rigg
• The 2020 movie directed by Ben Wheatley, written by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse, and starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas

Footnotes:

• Episode 23: Dial M for (A Perfect) Murder on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
• Episode 30: Sherlock Holmes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
• Episode 43: Jane Eyre, Part 1 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965)
• Psycho (1960) and Psycho (1998)
• Gosford Park (2001)

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