big screen adaptation
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adaptación cinematográfica
- It's thought that Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) will begin work on the big screen adaptation of Supercrooks at some point next year, so we're obviously still a good while away from any casting news.
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For the past year or so, there have been mutterings about the reported problems with the production of the forthcoming big screen adaptation of the zombie novel World War Z, which stars Brad Pitt.
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If anything rivals the troubled history of the 'Halo' movie, it's the big screen adaptation of 'Castlevania,' Konami's classic monster-bashing platformer.
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But such details about the big screen adaptation are still to come.
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Two of our favorite actors will star together in "The Long Red Road," the big-screen adaptation of the play by Brett C. Leonard.
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The Supercrooks miniseries has ended, so now we're waiting on Nacho Vigalondo's big screen adaptation.
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There's a new trailer for the big screen adaptation of David Wong's excellent and totally bizarre novel John Dies at the End, and man, can we not wait for this thing.
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After that, he'll direct the big-screen adaptation of the Marvel superhero comic Ant-Man, which is about a scientist who can change his size and is set to film next year for a 2015 release.
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Although most filmmakers and Hollywood studios look for a bankable star to plaster across endless amounts of promotional material, DreamWorks is taking a somewhat different approach to the big screen adaptation of the Need for Speed franchise.
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Fans eagerly awaited the big screen adaptation of the beloved novel.
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The big screen adaptation of the classic play brought in a new generation of viewers.
Synonyms
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A book, play, or film made from another work to fit a new form
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A story changed into a play, film or TV program
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Surface Forms
Morphology
big + screen + adaptation
The noun 'adaptation' already denotes a work altered for another medium and 'big screen' is a common, compositional way to refer to cinema/film; together they directly yield 'a film version' of a work. This follows regular English compounding and is cross-linguistically paralleled, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Big screen adaptation comes from the image of a story shown on a large movie screen: big screen means the movie screen and adaptation means changing a story from a book or play into a film. So, the phrase now means 'a film version' of an earlier work.