Adapt or Perish

In this damn dirty episode, we're taking a close look at the ape/human switcheroo classic Planet of the Apes!

In this episode we discuss:

• La Planète des singes, Pierre Boulle's original 1963 novel
• Planet of the Apes (1968), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, written by Rod Serling and Michael Wilson, and starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, and Kim Hunter
• Planet of the Apes (2001), directed by Tim Burton, written by William Broyles, Jr., Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, and Helena Bonham Carter

Footnotes:

• The original Planet of the Apes pitch and makeup test
• "A Fish Called Selma," episode 719 of The Simpsons
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
• Planet of the Apes (the 1974 live action TV show)
• Return to the Planet of the Apes (the 1975 animated TV show)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
• War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
• The original Planet of the Apes pitch and makeup test
• The Celluloid Closet (1996)

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish—our second of two parts—we're still looking at Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's classic gothic romance!

In Part One we discussed:

• Emily Brontë's original 1847 novel
• Wuthering Heights (1939 movie)
• Studio One Season 3 Episode 10: Wuthering Heights (1950)
• DuPont Show of the Month Season 1 Episode 9: Wuthering Heights (1958)
• Wuthering Heights (1967 miniseries)
• Wuthering Heights (1970 movie)
• Wuthering Heights (1978 miniseries)
• Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights"

Here in Part Two, we discuss:

• Hurlevent (1985 movie), directed by Jacques Rivette, written by Pascal Bonitzer, Marilù Bonitzer, and Suzanne Schiffman, and starring Lucas Belvaux and Fabienne Babe
• Arashi ga oka (1988 movie), written and directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, and starring Yūsaka Matsuda, Yūko Tanaka, and Tomoko Takabe
• Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992 movie), directed by Peter Kosminsky, written by Anne Devlin, and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, and Jeremy Northam
• Wuthering Heights (1998 TV movie), directed by David Skynner, written by Neil McKay, and starring Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, Sarah Smart, and Matthew Macfadyen
• Wuthering Heights (2003 TV movie), directed by Suri Krishnamma, written by Max Enscoe and Annie deYoung, and starring Erika Christensen, Mike Vogel, and Christopher Masterson
• Wuthering Heights (2009 miniseries), directed by Coky Giedroyc, written by Peter Bowker, and starring Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Andrew Lincoln, Burn Gorman, and Rebecca Night
• Wuthering Heights (2011 movie), directed by Andrea Arnold, written by Arnold and Olivia Hetreed, and starring James Howson, Kaya Scodelario, Solomon Glave, and Shannon Beer

Footnotes:

• August Strindberg's Miss Julie
• Sparkhouse (2002)
• Robin Hood (2006–2009)

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish—our first of two parts—we're looking at Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's classic gothic romance!

In this episode we discuss:

• Emily Brontë's original 1847 novel
• Wuthering Heights (1939 movie), directed by William Wyler, written by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, and starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, and David Niven
• Studio One Season 3 Episode 10: Wuthering Heights (1950), directed by Paul Nickell, written by Lois Jacoby, and starring Charlton Heston, Mary Sinclair, and Una O'Connor
• DuPont Show of the Month Season 1 Episode 9: Wuthering Heights (1958), directed by Daniel Petrie, written by James Costigan, and starring Richard Burton, Rosemary Harris, and Denholm Elliott
• Wuthering Heights (1967 miniseries), directed by Peter Sasdy, written by Hugh Leonard, and starring Ian McShane and Angela Scoular
• Wuthering Heights (1970 movie), directed by Robert Fuest, written by Patrick Tilley, and starring Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall, Julian Glover, and Judy Cornwell
• Wuthering Heights (1978 miniseries), directed by Peter Hammond, written by Hugh Leonard and David Snodin, and starring Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, and Pat Heywood
• Kate Bush's 1978 song "Wuthering Heights"

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 43: Jane Eyre, Part 1
• Adapt or Perish Episode 44: Jane Eyre, Part 2
• Adapt or Perish Episode 73: Flowers in the Attic
• "David Duchovny" by Bree Sharp
• "The 50 greatest Irish film actors of all time – in order" from The Irish Times
• Adapt or Perish Episode 34: Romeo and Juliet
• Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" music videos: Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3
• The "Wuthering Heights" dance as performed by Noel Fielding

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're returning to the works of E.B. White to talk about his little mouseboy (boymouse?) hero, Stuart Little!

In this episode we discuss:

• White's original 1945 novel
• "The World of Stuart Little," the March 6, 1966 episode of NBC's Children's Theatre, produced by George A. Heinemann and June Reig, written by Reig, and narrated by Johnny Carson
• Stuart Little (1999), directed by Rob Minkoff, written by M. Night Shyamalan and Greg Brooker, and starring Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Nathan Lane, and Jonathan Lipnicki
• Stuart Little 2 (2002), directed by Minkoff, written by Bruce Joel Rubin, starring the cast of Stuart Little with Melanie Griffith and James Woods

Footnotes:

• Adapt or Perish Episode 50: Charlotte's Web
• John Hodgman's Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches (2018)
• Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)

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If you've ever been curious about what we get up to in our patron-only bonus show, here's the episode for you! In this episode of Adapt or Perish Plus, we dig into our favorite musicals (stage AND screen). And make sure you stick around for a special announcement about a future series of episodes...

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Episode 91 of Adapt or Perish has just checked in, and OH MY GOD I THINK IT'S A WITCH. We're taking a look at The Witches, Roald Dahl's horror story for kids!

In this episode we discuss:

• Roald Dahl's original 1983 novel
• The 1990 movie, directed by Nicholas Roeg, produced by Jim Henson, written by Allan Scott, and starring Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, and Mai Zetterling
• The 2020 movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro, and Kenya Barris, and starring Anne Hathaway, Jahzir Kadeem Bruno, and Octavia Spencer

Footnotes:

• Episode 22: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Episode 31: Where the Wild Things Are & Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Episode 55: The BFG
• Episode 77: Matilda
• The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
• "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden
• 'The Witches' Review: There's No Magic to Robert Zemeckis' Dreadful Roald Dahl Adaptation by David Ehrlich

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In this very romantic, very German, very arthouse episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at the very romantic, very German, very arthouse Wings of Desire, and its very Hollywood remake City of Angels!

In this episode we discuss:

• Wings of Desire (1987), directed by Wim Wenders, written by Wenders, Peter Handke, and Richard Reitinger, and starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, and Peter Falk
• City of Angels (1998), directed by Brad Silberling, written by Dana Stevens, and starring Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, and Dennis Franz

Footnotes:

• "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls
• "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan
• Faraway, So Close! (1993)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
• Rebecca Schaeffer and Gavin de Becker's The Gift of Fear
• "Sincerely, Raymond Holt"

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There's a new girl at Miss Minchin's! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're talking about the children's classic A Little Princess!

In this episode we discuss:

• Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1905 novel
• A Little Princess (1917), directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion, and starring Mary Pickford, Katherine Griffith, and ZaSu Pitts
• The Little Princess (1939), directed by Walter Lang, written by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris, and starring Shirley Temple, Ian Hunter, Arthur Treacher, and Cesar Romero
• Princess Sarah (1985), directed by Fumio Kurokawa, and written by Hidemi Kamata, Keiko Mukuroji, and Ryūzō Nakanishi
• A Little Princess (1986), directed by Carol Wiseman, written by Jeremy Burnham, and starring Amelia Shankley, Maureen Lipman, Miriam Margolyes, and Nigel Havers
• A Little Princess (1995), directed by Alfonso Cuarón, written by Richard LaGravenese, and starring Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, and Liam Cunningham

Footnotes:

• Episode 50: Charlotte's Web
• Episode 5: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Episode 41: The Ten Commandments
• The theme song to The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Akage no An (Anne of Green Gables) (1979)
• The Pritzker family
• The music videos for Blind Melon's "No Rain" and "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bedrock Anthem"

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People of Earth! Your attention, please! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're talking about the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still!

In this episode we discuss:

• Farewell to the Master, the original 1940 short story by Harry Bates
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), directed by Robert Wise, written by Edmund H. North, and starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, and Hugh Marlowe
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), directed by Scott Derrickson, written by David Scarpa, and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, and Jaden Smith

Footnotes:

• Episode 108 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Justice"
• The Celluloid Closet (1996)
• Adapt or Perish Episode 49: The Karate Kid
• Seth Shostak on the Set of The Day the Earth Stood Still

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In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're looking at Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls! We're very sorry.

In this episode we discuss:

• Jacqueline Susann's original 1966 novel
• The 1967 movie, directed by Mark Robson, written by Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley, and Harlan Ellison, and starring Barbara Perkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon Tate
• The 1981 two-part TV movie, directed by Walter Grauman, written by Laurence Heath, and starring Catherine Hicks, Lisa Hartman, Veronica Hamel, Jean Simmons, and James Coburn (here's a current YouTube link, for however long it's up)

Footnotes:

• Episode 73: Flowers in the Attic
• The Patty Duke Show
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert
• The gloriously 90s intro of Valley of the Dolls (1994)

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