adaptations

From KANIVEYA HAADU, the Kannada play staged during Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Multi-Lingual Theatre Festival on July 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: SRINATH M The story was set in a small valley, against the backdrop of the South African skies.…

House of Doomed Leaves If bringing a novel to the big screen is a tough job, then making a movie into a video game tends to spell doom from the get-go. And we don’t mean the good kind of Doom. Go ahead, try to think of a film’s video game…

Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty has teased that Microsoft has additional film/TV projects based on its franchises in the works beyond those that have been announced. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Booty…

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered evidence that a species' long-term adaptation to living in an extremely cold climate has led to the evolution of social behaviours including extended care by mothers, increased infant…

The trend of adapting literary works to the big screen is now booming, thanks to directors like Vetri Maaran (whose recent release Viduthalai: Part 1 was an adaptation of B Jeyamohan’s Thunaivan) and Mani Ratnam, whose magnum opus releasing…

For years, video game adaptations were considered a curse to the film and TV industry, with several projects failing to be successful both critically and commercially. However, times have changed, and recent projects such as The…

With The Last of Us Season 1 in our rearview mirrors and viewership numbers now on record, let’s have a discussion about adaptations that take it upon themselves to veer from the canon continuity of their respective source material…

More potential to discover With the success of Castlevania and the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime series, it is clear that game anime adaptations are worth investing in. They can heighten a franchise’s standing among the mass audience and…

Chagas disease affects approximately 6 million people only in Latin America and is one of the leading causes of death in this region. This infectious disease, also called American Trypanosomiasis, is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi…

More games based on TV shows, please Video game adaptations are more popular than ever, especially when it comes to the games-to-TV/film side of things — just look at the endless conversations surrounding HBO’s adaptation of The Last of…