1.   The scriptwriter helped him to adapt his novel for the screen.

2.   Already Bromell is at work adapting the novel for a series on HBO.

3.   And Stroman had said she initially thought of adapting the novel as a ballet.

4.   Boyle and the author Jane Rogers, who adapted her novel for the series, have given powerful visual life to a richly imagined world.

5.   But, musically, he takes a self-conscious tack in adapting the novel.

6.   Emma Thompson has adapted the novel to include all the Austenesque humor and some of the Thompsonesque variety as well.

7.   Egoyan had never before adapted a novel, but this Banks story was a special sort of inspiration for him.

8.   He and Don Bredes adapted a novel by Howard Frank Mosher.

9.   In adapting the novel, Minghella has presented us with a mystery.

10.   In recent years he has focused on directing, acting, adapting novels to the screen and writing short political plays.