Although Walt Disney initially purchased the film rights to "The Ill-Made Knight" in 1944, he eventually produced an adaptation of "The Sword in the Stone" (released in 1963). This movie reflects more the sense of humour of Disney's team of animators than White's. The movie adds a more comical side to the original story, including song and dance, as in most Disney films. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1960 musical "Camelot" (which was made into a movie in 1967) is based mostly on the last two books of "The Once and Future King" and features White's idea of having Thomas Malory make a cameo appearance at the end, again as "Tom of Warwick".
Film, television, and theatrical adaptations
The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King | Film, television, and theatrical adaptations
Yes, "Camelot". Yes, "Camelot" Yes,  The movie adds a more comical side to the original story, including song and dance, as in most Disney films. Yes, Walt Disney produced an adaptation of "The Sword in the Stone".
when did the arthurian legends reach their height of popularity
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With the outbreak of the Second World War.
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who was he?
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He was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
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who was he married to?
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any novel in which his romance tradition is continuing in 20th century?
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"The Once and Future King", "Arthur Rex", and "The Mists of Avalon".
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who was the author of the first one mentioned above?
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T.H.White.
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when was it first published?
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1958.
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Although Walt Disney initially purchased the film rights to "The Ill-Made Knight" in 1944, he eventually produced an adaptation of "The Sword in the Stone" (released in 1963). This movie reflects more the sense of humour of Disney's team of animators than White's. The movie adds a more comical side to the original story, including song and dance, as in most Disney films. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's 1960 musical "Camelot" (which was made into a movie in 1967) is based mostly on the last two books of "The Once and Future King" and features White's idea of having Thomas Malory make a cameo appearance at the end, again as "Tom of Warwick".
The Once and Future King | Film, television, and theatrical adaptations
BBC Radio produced a dramatised version of "The Sword in the Stone" for Children's Hour shortly after its publication in 1938. Incidental music for the serial was specially composed by Benjamin Britten.
The Once and Future King | Film, television, and theatrical adaptations
King Matt has been adapted numerous times, for film, TV, animation, and opera.
King Matt the First | Adaptations
In the adventure with Robin Hood in the original book, the outlaws take the boys to attack the cannibal Anthropophagi and the Wart kills a Sciopod. In the 1958 version, the boys lead an attack on Morgan le Fay's Castle Chariot and Kay kills a griffin. The revisions reflect White's preoccupation with political questions in "The Once and Future King", and generally give the first part of the work a more adult flavour.
The Once and Future King | Plot
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant", and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It is noted, however, for deviating significantly from the novel's storyline.
All the King's Men | Film and stage adaptations
The Once and Future King is a work by T. H. White based upon the 1485 book "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory. It was first published in 1958. It collects and revises shorter novels published from 1938 to 1940, with much new material.
The Once and Future King | Introduction
Of the stories King wrote for this collection, two became films and another is in the works. The novella "Riding the Bullet" became a direct-to-video film by the same name, released in 2004 and directed by Mick Garris, who made many films and TV miniseries of King's works, and the film "1408" (2007) appeared in theaters, starring John Cusack. "The Death of Jack Hamilton" was adapted for the screen for the first time as part of King's "Dollar Baby" deal, and an official teaser trailer for the film was released on September 1, 2012, with an expected release date in 2013.
Everything's Eventual | Film adaptations
In 2007, it premiered as a musical theater piece. This was the second theater production based on the works of Tonke Dragt, after an adaptation of "De Zevensprong". A film based on the book, starring Derek de Lint, was released in the summer of 2008. In 2018, it was revealed that Netflix had bought the international rights to film an English-language series based on the book. Filming took place in New Zealand and Prague. The Netflix series was released on March 20 2020.
The Letter for the King | Adaptations
The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the 1951 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical "The King and I", based in turn on the 1944 novel "Anna and the King of Siam" by Margaret Landon. That novel in turn was based on memoirs written by Anna Leonowens, who became school teacher to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. Leonowens' stories were autobiographical, although various elements of them have been called into question.
The King and I (1956 film) | Introduction
"The Lion King" was originally a 1994 Disney animated film and its theatrical adaptation has become the most successful musical in history.
Theatrical adaptation | Film adaptation
The first production, by Rediffusion, was timed to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066 and was first broadcast on 11 October, in the week of the original battle. John Mortimer's script was published in "Playbill 3" (1966), together with other screenplays by Alan Plater, Ray Jenkins, Ronald Duncan, and Alan Gosling. Having been published, the screenplay is sometimes performed on stage. There was a production by Ampleforth College in 1974.
A Choice of Kings | Production and screenplay
In 1998, Warner Bros. released an animated film titled "Quest for Camelot", which is loosely based upon Chapman's novel. Significant changes were made to the plot and themes of the story, including the following:
The King's Damosel | Film adaptation
The film is loosely based on several works of English playwright William Shakespeare. As such, the film contains many of the same ahistorical dramatizations as its source material, including the introduction of wholly fictional characters and events, as well as loose interpretations of historical persons, including Henry himself.
The King (2019 film) | Historical Accuracy
In 1922 the novel was turned into a film "Man and His Kingdom" directed by Maurice Elvey.
Man and His Kingdom (novel) | Film adaptation
In May 2017, the NFB and Canadian publisher Firefly Books announced that the film would be adapted into a children's book.
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts | Adaptation
A twenty-part television series, and a musical based on it, were later produced. Before its release, it was rumored that the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy film "The Dictator" (2012) was adapted from the novel. The book is also featured in Matt Ruff's alternate history novel "The Mirage" (2012), where in the novel's narrative it serves as an equivalent to O. J. Simpson's "If I Did It" (2007). "Zabibah and the King" and Lynne Cheney's novel "Sisters" (1981) are the subject of Taylor Mac's song 'The Palace of the End'.
Zabibah and the King | Adaptations
A film adaptation was released in 1965, the first of several of Clavell's novels to be so adapted.
King Rat (Clavell novel) | Film adaptation
Due to the heavy deviations being made to the film's shooting script, Nicholas Ray and Philip Yordan were no longer on speaking terms communicating only through walkie-talkies.
King of Kings (1961 film) | Filming and post-production
In 1972, Arthur Rankin used a loophole in the US publication of the books (which made them public domain) to create an animated TV special based on "The Hobbit" (1977), and a sequel based on the closing chapters of "The Return of the King" (1980).
Production of The Lord of the Rings film series | Previous Adaptations
The movie is a generally faithful adaptation of the novella, but for some small narrative differences. In the movie:
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Differences from the novella
Wheeler and the costume design by Irene Sharaff. The choreography used for the film was the choreography developed by Jerome Robbins for the original stage production.
The King and I (1956 film) | Production
A film adaptation, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Gina Lollobrigida, David Niven and John Moulder-Brown, was released in 1972.
King, Queen, Knave | Film adaptation
"Les Rois maudits" has been adapted twice for French television.
The Accursed Kings | Television adaptations
The movie's script was faithful to the stage version, although it cut a few songs; reviews were enthusiastic. Thomas Hischak, in his "The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia", states: "It is generally agreed that the [movie] is the finest film adaptation of any R & H musical". Thai officials judged the film offensive to their monarchy and banned both film and musical in 1956. A non-musical 1972 TV comedy series, starring Brynner, was broadcast in the U.S. by CBS but was cancelled in mid-season after 13 episodes. It followed the main storyline of the musical, focusing on the relationship between the title characters.
The King and I | Adaptations
In 2014, "King of Kong: The Musical", which parodied the characters and events depicted in the documentary began its limited run. A scripted film adaptation is also in the works. Director Seth Gordon has said that the movie might be a sequel instead of a remake, telling the story of how the documentary changed both men's lives, as well as their continuing rivalry.
The King of Kong | Adaptations and sequels
The film premiered in Argentina on August 28, 1986. The film was screened at various film festivals, including; the Toronto International Film Festival, Canada; the Venice Film Festival, Italy; the Havana Film Festival, Cuba; and others.
A King and His Movie | Distribution
"The Lord of the Rings" has been adapted for film, radio, stage, and television.
The Lord of the Rings | Adaptations
As of July 2019, the film holds a "fresh" 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
King of Kings (1961 film) | Critical reaction
There have been numerous film adaptations of the novel:
And Then There Were None | Film
The play was adapted into a 90-minute TV film for BBC Two and Masterpiece on PBS. The adaptation first aired on BBC Two on 10 May 2017. Before the film had even aired, politicians and biographers already did not like the idea of a non-fiction futuristic world without the Queen. After viewing the play as a whole, it was seen as more of a political thriller and tragedy. The TV film is an hour shorter than the play time due to a few parts being removed from the original script.
King Charles III (play) | TV film adaptation
Anything in the Stephen King Universe interests me but there's only so much of the story we could tell in the two movies. There are definitely elements of the novel you could expand on and make its own movie. It's just a question of whether or not people want to see it but I do think It was on this planet for a very, very, very long time and that's a lot of bloodshed and a lot of stories to tell and I think you could do that for sure."
It (film series) | Future
Anything in the Stephen King Universe interests me, but there's only so much of the story we could tell in the two movies. There are definitely elements of the novel you could expand on and make its own movie. It's just a question of whether or not people want to see it. I do think It was on this planet for a very, very, very long time and that's a lot of bloodshed and a lot of stories to tell and I think you could do that for sure."
It Chapter Two | Future
Bret Easton Ellis, who believes the novel as ""Probably the funniest young-guy-in-New York novel since Bright Lights, Big City"". He is adapting the screenplay for a 2011 film, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The Frog King (novel) | Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
A copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress.
If I Were King (1920 film) | Preservation status
The first film adaptation was "The Black Watch" (UK title "King of the Khyber Rifles"), released in 1929 and starring Victor McLaglen and Myrna Loy. A second version, "King of the Khyber Rifles" (1953) featured Tyrone Power and Terry Moore. Apart from the title and the Khyber Pass setting, it has little in common with Mundy's novel. A third adaptation, to have been adapted by Philip Kaufman and released by TriStar Pictures was planned but never made. A Classics Illustrated comic book of Mundy's book was printed in 1953, No. 107.
King of the Khyber Rifles | Adaptations
The film is now considered to be a lost film.
The Radio King | Preservation status
In 1956, Theodore Sturgeon novelized the original screen story by Margaret Fitts for Dell Books, which published it in December 1956 as a 25-cent paperback.
The King and Four Queens | Book version
In 2018, the book was adapted as a Christmas special on Sky One.
The Queen and I (novel) | TV adaptation
"King John" has been produced for television twice: in 1951 with Donald Wolfit and in 1984 with Leonard Rossiter as part of the BBC Television Shakespeare series of adaptations.
King John (play) | Performance history
If I Were King is a 1938 American biographical and historical film starring Ronald Colman as medieval poet François Villon, and featuring Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. It is based on the 1901 play and novel, both of the same name, by Justin Huntly McCarthy, and was directed by Frank Lloyd, with a screenplay adaptation by Preston Sturges.
If I Were King | Introduction
In 1931 it was adapted into a film "The Sport of Kings" by Gainsborough Pictures. It was directed by Victor Saville and starred Leslie Henson and Gordon Harker.
The Sport of Kings (play) | Adaptation
The film was a big success upon release, both critically and financially, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 1956 with rentals of $8.5 million. Some reviewers did criticize the film due to its changes in dialogue from the Broadway production, as well as the omission of some songs. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 96% rating. "The King and I" was banned in Thailand, and remains banned, due to its representation of King Mongkut of Siam; as is the case with most other adaptations of "Anna and the King".
The King and I (1956 film) | Reception
The film was originally to be released on November 15, 2019, but was pushed back first to February 14, 2020, and then to September 18, 2020. The release date was again pushed back to February 12, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The King's Man | Release
In June 1960, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had acquired the distribution rights to the film with their intention to distribute the film for a roadshow theatrical release as a follow-up to "Ben-Hur" (1959).
King of Kings (1961 film) | Release
The release was threatened by a lawsuit filed by the Tolkien Estate and Fantasy Films on the basis that Rankin/Bass had not secured the U.S. and Canadian television rights to the book. The lawsuit was settled "amicably", allowing it to proceed with a May 1980 release.
The Return of the King (1980 film) | Production
Villon's life has been portrayed multiple times in film. "If I Were King" is a silent film from 1920, starring William Farnum. The 1938 version of "If I Were King" was adapted by Preston Sturges from Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 play and novel; the film was directed by Frank Lloyd and starred Basil Rathbone and Frances Dee. McCarthy's play was adapted again in 1945 with "François Villon", a French historical drama film directed by André Zwoboda and starring Serge Reggiani, Jean-Roger Caussimon, and Henri Crémieux. The television biography "François Villon" was made in 1981 in West Germany, with Jörg Pleva in the title role.
François Villon | Film and television
In September 2020, it was announced that a follow-up film was in development with Barry Jenkins attached to direct and Jeff Nathanson set to return as screenwriter. While it has been referred to as a prequel, the film has been described as being set after the events of the 2019 film while also exploring Mufasa's formative years.
The Lion King (franchise) | Future
Given a meaty part, his histrionic bent wraps it up for a great personal success adding much to the many worthwhile aspects of the drama."
All the King's Men (1949 film) | Critical response
For many years, the film was seen only in black-and-white prints made for television release in the 1950s. At one time even the black-and-white prints were considered irretrievably lost. One nitrate Technicolor print did survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and it was restored and preserved in 1990.
The Vagabond King (1930 film) | Preservation
The film was originally re-created.
The Legend of King Naresuan: The Series | Production About Movie
The film stars Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner. The film was a critical and commercial success, and was nominated for 9 Oscars, winning 5, including Best Actor for Brynner. Another film adaptation of the same musical, the animated film "The King and I", was released in 1999.
The King and I (1956 film) | Introduction
The novel was optioned to be adapted into a film several times, for which Peter David wrote a screenplay version of the story, but to date it has never been brought forward into production.
Knight Life | Film
Some critics questioned anew the portrayal of the Siamese court as barbaric and asked why a show where "the laughs come from the Thai people mis-understanding British ... culture" should be selected for revival.
The King and I | 2004 to present
Vidor's final two movies, the epics "War and Peace" (an adaption of the novel by Russian author [[Leo Tolstoy]]), and "Solomon and Sheba", a story from the [[Old Testament]], followed the director's realization that his self-conceived film proposals would not be welcomed by commercial movie enterprises. This pair of historical costume dramas were created outside Hollywood, both filmed and financed in Europe.
King Vidor | "Man Without a Star", 1955
Sceptical that any cinematic adaptation could render the more fantastical elements and characters of the story realistically, Lewis never sold the film rights to the "Narnia" series. In answering a letter with a question posed by a child in 1957, asking if the Narnia series could please be on television, C. S. Lewis wrote back: "They'd be no good on TV. Humanized beasts can't be presented to the "eye" without at once becoming either hideous or ridiculous. I wish the idiots who run the film world [would] realize that there are stories [which] are for the "ear" alone." The first novel adapted was "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".
The Chronicles of Narnia | Film
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor adventure film adapted from the 1888 Rudyard Kipling novella of the same name. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). The film follows two rogue ex-soldiers, former non-commissioned officers in the British Army, who set off from late 19th-century British India in search of adventure and end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) | Introduction
The below still frames from the film were published in the 27 September 1899 issue of "The Sketch" accompanying a review of Tree's stage production. While these were known to scholars ever since Robert Hamilton Ball's "Shakespeare On Silent Film" (1968), and preceding journal papers, they were assumed to be ordinary production stills from the stage adaptation. It was not until B. A. Kachur's paper "The First Shakespeare Film: A Reconsideration and Reconstruction of Tree's "King John"" (1991) in "Theatre Survey" that they were identified as still frames from the film.
King John (film) | Preserved still frames
In 1960, Tennessee Ernie Ford starred in a television adaptation. In 1970, the book was adapted into a 74-minute animated TV special directed by Zoran Janjic with Orson Bean as the voice of the title character. In 1978 an episode of "Once Upon a Classic", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", was an adaptation, as was the Disney film "Unidentified Flying Oddball", also known as "A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court". The TV series "The Transformers" had a second-season episode, "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court", that had a group of Autobots and Decepticons sent back to the Middle Ages.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Adaptations and references
"The Black King" was written as a stage play by Donald Heywood and plans were publicly announced to produce it on Broadway directed by Russian choreographer Léonide Massine. This never took place. Instead, Heywood's story was adapted by Morris M. Levinson and it was produced as a film by Southland Pictures under white director Bud Pollard in 1932. The film was re-released in the 1940s under the title, "Harlem Big Shot".
The Black King (film) | History
"The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia" says "whether or not one agrees about the 1956 film of "The King and I" being the best R&H movie, most would concede that [the] animated adaption is the worst". Roger Ebert gave it 2 stars out of 4 and felt that animated adaptations of musicals have potential but found the film rather dull.
The King and I (1999 film) | Critical reception
King of Kings is a 1961 American Biblical epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed by Nicholas Ray, the film is a dramatization of the story of Jesus of Nazareth from his birth and ministry to his crucifixion and resurrection, with much dramatic license. In November 1958, the idea for "King of Kings" began as a proposed film project based on the life of Jesus between Samuel Bronston and John Farrow following their collaboration on "John Paul Jones" (1959). However, by the next year, Farrow left the project due to creative differences, and Nicholas Ray was shortly after hired as director.
King of Kings (1961 film) | Introduction
In 1966, the novel was adapted into a stage play by Hugh Wheeler, starring Heather Menzies, Shirley Knight, and Alan Webb. The play premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway on October 19, and closed after 11 performances on October 26. In 2010, Adam Bock and Todd Almond staged a musical version at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, which ran from September 23 to October 9. In August 2009, the novel was optioned for the screen by Michael Douglas' production company Further Films, from a script written by Mark Kruger, with the support of Jackson's son Laurence Hyman.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Adaptations
"The Once and Future King" is the first segment of the twenty-fifth episode, the first episode of the second season (1986–87) of the television series "The Twilight Zone".
The Once and Future King (The Twilight Zone) | Introduction
However, the hypothesis is not accepted by scholars who say it lacks a solid base.
King Arthur (2004 film) | Historical notes
In July 2018, it was announced Netflix had ordered an original series based on Tonke Dragt's "De brief voor de Koning" with Will Davies as showrunner and executive producer. This is the first Netflix adaptation of a Dutch book, although it will be adapted in English; the series is titled after the English translation, which was published in 2014. FilmWave acquired the international rights in a deal with Leopold. Paul Trijbits of FilmWave is executive producing, Chris Clark is producing, and Alex Holmes and Felix Thompson are directing.
The Letter for the King (TV series) | Development
Roy Thomas' "Conan: Road of Kings" (2010) is not an adaptation of Wagner's novel.
The Road of Kings | Adaptation
The play was adapted for television and was broadcast on RTÉ on 4 October 1964. Reaction to the television adaption was mixed. Some viewers felt that the adaption provided "good clean fun for all the family" while others felt that the production was a "diabolical production".
All the King's Horses (play) | Television adaption
The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 2 September 2019. It screened at the BFI London Film Festival on 3 October 2019, and received a limited release on 11 October 2019 before being released on Netflix, for digital streaming, on 1 November 2019.
The King (2019 film) | Release
"11.22.63" was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 9, 2016 in Region 1. The release includes all eight episodes, as well as a special feature titled "When the Future Fights Back", where King, Abrams, Carpenter and Franco talk about elements of the production that turned King's novel into an event series.
11.22.63 | Home media
The king, who has been cast into the forest as a child by the governor, returns to his kingdom. However he is tricked by the governor and forced to go back to the forest where he turns into a stag. Eventually he goes back once again, the governor is killed, and he is transformed again into human form.
König Hirsch | Synopsis
Besides the early verse play version "Proud Flesh", Robert Penn Warren has written several stage adaptations of "All the King's Men", one of them in close collaboration with famous German theatre director Erwin Piscator in 1947. The story was adapted for radio by NBC University Theatre and broadcast in January 1949. Wayne Morris played Jack Burden, with Paul Frees as Willie Stark. "All the King's Men", a movie made based on Warren's novel, was released several months later in 1949. The film won three Oscars that year: Best Picture, Best Actor (Broderick Crawford), and Best Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge). The movie was also nominated for four more categories.
All the King's Men | Film and stage adaptations
The British Universities Film & Video Council database notes that the adaption "transforms the play into a modern political conspiracy thriller with modern dialogue and many strong allusions to political events in the early 1970s." The adaption changes Shakespeare's text into 20th century English. It was set in what was then a modern 20th century context, although it was clearly shifted slightly into the then near future. There is a reference in the first episode to the imminent return of Halley's Comet, which in 1973 was not due to return for another 13 years, and how it was viewed by some as being a possible portent of the death of kings.
Heil Caesar | Introduction
A movie serial was produced in 1942.
King of the Royal Mounted | Introduction
There is some sort of primitive appeal in that to all of us. But the studios were never very excited about it. I don't know if they are now."
Farewell to the King | Development
The film was originally going to be made in 1972, directed by Schoendoerffer and produced by Robert Dorfman, starring Donald Sutherland. However, it was not made. John Milius was interested in the themes of the book. In 1976, he said: "I liked the story because it was such a wonderful Kiplingesque adventure tale," Milius later said. "It was a theme I always respond to, a guy living free in the wild, and the world catching up to him. In many ways it's similar to "Jeremiah Johnson". I thought if I kept plugging away at it, sooner or later I'd get to do it." Milius announced he would make the film in 1984.
Farewell to the King | Development
A print of "Long Live the King" survives in Gosfilmofond.
Long Live the King (film) | Survival status
It has been adapted four times in the USSR and Russia:
Cabbages and Kings (novel) | Adaptations
Never saw any of the script changes. And then finally, a year later, I get a copy of the script, and my name isn't even on it." Although Warner Bros. worked out a deal to give Ridley a "story by" credit, Ridley remains unhappy with the experience, and has blocked Russell's efforts to publish the "Three Kings" screenplay in book form.
Three Kings (1999 film) | Script controversy
Added to this are issues involving monsters, money, environmental issues, and even time travel.
King (2003 TV series) | Plot
The book has been adapted to film three times. The first was in 1921, starring James Kirkwood as Everard Dominey/Leopold von Ragastein and directed by George Melford. The second was in 1935, starring Edmund Lowe and directed by Alan Crosland. The last was in 1942, and has significant plot and name changes (mostly to set the story in World War II), Ralph Bellamy stars as Edward Dominey/Leopold von Ragastein, and it is directed by John Rawlins. This book features real political figure Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Duke of Worcester is a title that had never actually existed in English gentry.
The Great Impersonation (novel) | Other
A film version was announced in 1964 but was never made.
Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow | Adaptation
The two-disc set featured a new introduction by Stone. "Over the last two years," he said, "I have been able to sort out some of the unanswered questions about this highly complicated and passionate monarch – questions I failed to answer dramatically enough. This film represents my complete and last version, as it will contain all the essential footage we shot. I don't know how many film-makers have managed to make three versions of the same film, but I have been fortunate to have the opportunity because of the success of video and DVD sales in the world, and I felt, if I didn't do it now, with the energy and memory I still have for the subject, it would never quite be the same again.
Alexander (2004 film) | 'Alexander Revisited: The Final Unrated Cut'
The film adaptations present a dramatic and compelling view of politics and violence in the lives of the kings of England in the late Middle Ages, but do not necessarily portray some key characters and events the way Shakespeare does nor as modern historians would. (For example, Lord Talbot actually died at the Battle of Castillon in 1453, many years after the Siege of Orléans in 1429.)
The Hollow Crown (TV series) | Historical accuracy
Price Thomas will be remembered for the thoracotomy on King George VI, which was re-enacted in Stephen Daldry's TV series "The Crown" in 2016. The highly realistic and accurate model of the king complete with surgical incisions was donated to the Gordon Museum of Pathology as an educational aid. The controversies over the cause of the king's death were also touched on in the 2010 film "The King's Speech".
Clement Price Thomas | Film and television
The novel had been filmed for Australian TV in 1962 as "The Case of Private Hamp".
King and Country | Production
Both film versions used only a little of Friml's original score.
If I Were King | Other versions
It received mixed reviews from film critics, but was a box office success.
King of Kings (1961 film) | Introduction
In August 2011, before the novel's release, it was announced that Jonathan Demme had attached himself to write, produce, and direct a film adaptation of "11/22/63" with King serving as executive producer. However, in December 2012, Demme announced that he had withdrawn from the project, after disagreeing with King over what to include in the script. On April 26, 2013, it was reported that Warner Bros. Television and J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions were in negotiations for the rights to adapt the novel as a TV series or miniseries. On September 22, 2014, it was announced that a TV series based on the novel was picked up by Hulu.
11.22.63 | Development
Prior to the theatrical release of the "Quest for Camelot" it's writers David Seidler and Jacqueline Feather were contracted to adapt The King and I for Morgan Creek, to be released under the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label. In 1998 it was revealed the plot had been "slightly altered" from the original musical "in the interest of family viewing." But no change could be made without approval by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, it was known that the family friendly changes would be a risk, but they hoped the film would "introduce a generation of younger people to the show, earlier than they might have been under normal circumstances" according to R&H President at the time Ted Chapin.
The King and I (1999 film) | Writing
"The Painted Skin" has been adapted or represented in film, television, and cartoons on numerous occasions. The long list of adaptations underscore the story's enduring legacy; in particular, it is written to have inspired generations of filmmakers. One of the earliest film adaptations of the story is Bao Feng's "Huapi" (1965). A rumoured 1970s "Painted Skin" film was reportedly banned in China after a short run at the box office because of its overly intense horror scenes – it is claimed that some audience members died of fright. Its existence, however, has yet to be proven. King Hu's last film was a "faithful" adaptation of "The Painted Skin", released in 1993.
The Painted Skin | Legacy and adaptations
Robert Penn Warren's novel, published in Russian in 1968, immediately attracted the attention of the reading public. In Soviet cinematographic circles, the idea of film adaptation immediately arose. Application for the film adaptation almost simultaneously filed Stanislav Rostotsky from Mosfilm and Alexander Gutkovich in Gosteleradio BSSR. The question was decided in favor of the Belarusian version because of the personal involvement of the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party of Belarus Pyotr Masherov. The film was shot by Belarusian television on the basis of the Mosfilm Studio. Most of the film was shot in Klaipeda and Palanga.
All the King's Men (1971 film) | History
The miniseries was released on DVD on January 11, 2005, nearly 27 years after it first aired on television.
King (miniseries) | DVD release
A giant gate built for this film was later used in the 1933 film "King Kong", and was among the sets torched for the "burning of Atlanta" in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). Other sets and costumes were re-used for the 1965 Elvis Presley film, "Harum Scarum". "The King of Kings" was the first movie that premiered at the noted Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California on May 18, 1927. The film was screened there again on May 24, 1977 to commemorate the theater's 50th anniversary. The movie has two Technicolor sequences, the beginning and the resurrection scene, which use the two-strip process invented by Herbert Kalmus.
The King of Kings (1927 film) | Production details
However, Rankin/Bass had always planned on making a sequel based on "The Return of the King" as their follow-up project to "The Hobbit". The special aired on ABC on Sunday, May 11, 1980 after a legal challenge filed by the Tolkien Estate and Fantasy Films was settled. Critical and fan reaction to "The Return of the King" was lukewarm.
The Return of the King (1980 film) | Introduction
"The Return of the King" was first released on VHS by Warner Home Video in 1991, and for the second time as part of the "Warner Bros. Classic Tales" video collection in 1996. The film has been available on DVD since 2001, both individually and as a "boxed trilogy" with the Rankin/Bass's "The Hobbit" and Bakshi's "The Lord of the Rings".
The Return of the King (1980 film) | Home media
The plot of the novel was fully or partially included in adaptations for film and television, which also drew on the historical facts:
The Queen's Necklace | Adaptations
There have been other stage adaptations since the initial production in 1899, including a London production staged in 2009 at the O2 arena featuring a live chariot race. The book was also adapted for motion pictures in 1907, 1925, 1959, 2003, 2016, and as an American television miniseries in 2010. The 1959 film adaptation, starring Charlton Heston and featuring the famous chariot race, won a record eleven Academy Awards and was the top-grossing film of 1960.
Ben-Hur (play) | Adaptations
The second television adaptation was broadcast on December 12, 1972, on CBS. This production, videotaped in color, included original Broadway cast members Burnett, Gilford and White, and also featured Bernadette Peters as Lady Larken, Ken Berry as Prince Dauntless, Ron Husmann as Harry, and Wally Cox as The Jester. It was directed by Ron Field and Dave Powers. Again, several songs were eliminated and characters were combined or altered. Since the parts of the Minstrel and the Wizard were cut from this adaptation, a new prologue was written with Burnett singing "Many Moons Ago" as a bedtime story. In 2016, the special was included as a bonus feature on the DVD "Carol + 2: The Original Queens of Comedy".
Once Upon a Mattress | 1972
The drama was based on co-producer Nigel McCrery's non-fiction book "The Vanished Battalion". The book was first published in 1992 and was republished in 1997 and 1999 as "All the King's Men: one of the greatest mysteries of the First World War finally solved".
All the King's Men (1999 film) | Book
There is no connection, apart from the title, between the story and the 1852 comic opera by Adolphe Adam called "Si j'étais roi" (English: "If I Were King"). McCarthy's play premiered on Broadway in 1901 and was revived five times up through 1916. It was first adapted in 1920 as a silent film. In 1925, composer Rudolf Friml and librettists Brian Hooker and W.H. Post turned it into a successful Broadway operetta, "The Vagabond King", which featured the songs "Only a Rose", "Some Day", and "Song of the Vagabonds". The operetta was filmed twice - in 1930, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Dennis King and in 1956, directed by Michael Curtiz.
If I Were King | Other versions