Our Favorite Geek-Culture Adaptations
PROFOUND CLARK:
What’s your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Adaptation. Naked Lunch. Conventional adaptation would be Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
What’s your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Infinity War/Endgame feels like a cheat (prefer Endgame). Before that it was The Crow, I think.
What’s your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
Mortal Kombat
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
I’d love to adapt Pale Fire by Nabokov. I would love to see the manga/anime Monster adapted as well to live action.
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
Donald Glover
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
It might take Kaufman to see something.
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
When I learned adulthood was a myth.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your “core” - the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
Like Straw Hat Luffy, I’ve committed myself to a mindless devotion to passion in others as much as, if not more than, myself.
JACOB YORK:
What’s your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
American Psycho because it improves on the book in every conceivable way.
What’s your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Into the Spiderverse made me cry because I saw a comic book on screen for the first time. (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is also on that list, though.)
What’s your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
SLIM PICKINS, HERE! To my mind, there has not been a truly good video game movie. My answer is Street Fighter, which is great for Raul Julia's unironically wonderful performance as M. Bison.
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
(Here's a deep cut for you.) Suikoden II needs to be an eight episode mini-series.
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
My wife would say Jason Segel, so let's go with that.
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
Hiro Murai. He has a way of making the mundane look exceptional.
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
There's just not a lot of footage when you're sitting behind a laptop, writing scripts, no matter how good they are...
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your “core” - the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
I hope that I will always treat people with empathy, especially when I disagree with them. I want people to know that I'm listening.
ADAM PETREY:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Stalker (1979)
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
I think Super Mario Brothers (1993) wins by default because I haven’t seen any others.
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
Slaughter-House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
I’d like to think Jake Glyllenhaal
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
David Lynch
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
Moving out for the first time in tandem with my first heartbreak.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
My goals never change. I know what I want which is to make films. It’s just the situation & circumstances that change around me.
SONYA MAY:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
About A Boy
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
Double Dragon, but only because I had a weird obsession with the movie as a kid, I am well aware that it is not great haha
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
I want a Fable video game-to-movie adaptation and an A Single Shard book-to-movie adaptation
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
Chloe Bennet
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
Greta Gerwig
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
When I finally got up the nerve to quit my first full time job out of college with no back up plan. I struggled with on and off employment for the next year and a half, but it's been worth it everyday because I'm mentally in such a better place and am finally figuring out what my true passions are.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change? It's my support system, without a doubt. If I didn't have my family, significant other, and those who have been willing to take a chance on me *cough* Hudson, you're the real MVP *cough cough* it would be significantly harder to stay sane throughout all of the changes that life throws my way, from unemployment to dream jobs and moving across state lines, that core of people are truly the core that supports my dreams, align with my morals, and always push me to succeed and I hope they can stay by my side in some way forever!
CK LOVE:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Silence of the Lambs
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Wonder Women
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
Tomb Raider
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
Rachel Rising
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
Alanna Ubach
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
David Fincher / or / Lynn Ramsey
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
Leaving the life I knew to begin again.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change? My silence. I am a very silent and steady person.
COLBY MCHUGH:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Lord of the Rings. It really kickstarted my love of fantasy as a young kid.
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Having just watched Endgame for the second time, I'm having a very hard time not picking that.
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
Detective Pikachu. It was the most fun I've had in a theater in a while.
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
American Vampire by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque. Although I think this would work best as an HBO series rather than a film.
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
David Harbour could definitely play ornery, old man Colby.
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
Richard Linklater because he's able to find stories in the most boring of places, and my life is exceptionally boring. .
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
Ten years ago, when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It was a real bummer, to say the least.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
I think my love of stories is what I'll always have to fall back on, no matter what. Movies, books, comics, video games. All of 'em.
MONICA BEARD:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Jurrassic Park
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
I don't play videogames, so I don't care much for movies based on them.
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
The storylines from the Transformers comics (Political intrigue, space adventures, and ROBOTS, HeLLo?!?!)
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
Hear me out, I'd like for everyone in the movie to view me as looking roughly like myself, but for the audience to see me as Colin Firth
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
Probably when I moved away from all of my family and friends for a semester. It was hard but it really worked out.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
I'll always find ways to connect with people, I don't have to be alone for long if I just reach out
ALEX OAKLEY:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I got to see the characters I grew up with in The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books on the screen and I was amazed!
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It’s the most Comic Book-y adaptation and how unique is it?
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
Absolutely the Street Fighter movie because Raul Julia’s M. Bison is such a great character that really brings a lot to what is otherwise a just-OK movie.
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
I would love to see a film adaptation of the Garth Nix ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ series! The imaginative and unique universe would make a really standout fantasy film!
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
Considering I have gotten quotes from ‘The Hangover’ yelled at me in a QT parking lot at 3 AM on multiple occasions, possibly Zach Galifinakis?
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
Adam McKay, because I trust him to write me some decent dialogue, and I absolutely want bizarre montages representing different aspects of my life a la ‘VICE’
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
Probably College? I know that’s a stock answer but College was such a radical lifestyle and LIFE change. I think In the end I got through it alright!
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
I think it’s always most important to do your best to be kind to people, regardless of circumstances. Never assume the worst of people, always expect the best, and remember that it costs nothing to just be kind.
HUDSON PHILLIPS:
What's your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
I’m gonna go with two ends of the spectrum here, but I love Pride & Prejudice and Fight Club equally.
What's your favorite comic-to-movie adaptation?
Scott Pilgrim
What's your favorite game-to-movie adaptation?
I’m not a gamer guy, but Rampage was a lot of fun.
What book (or comic or game) most needs to be adapted into a movie?
Machine Man by Max Barry is one of my favorite books and also the most “movie” book I’ve ever read. So if anyone wants to hire me to write that one!
Who would play you in a movie adaptation of your life?
So many liberties would have to be taken to make my life story interesting, but how about a combination of Noah Centineo playing young me and Mark Ruffalo playing old me?
What director would be the best fit for a movie adaptation of your life?
Taika Waititi has such a way of blending wacky with sentimentality.
What moment was most defining, yet hardest to adapt to, in your real life?
Losing my dad at a young age, but that very much put me on the path I am today.
In adapting to changes in your life, what do you consider to be your "core"—the thing that will always stay the same no matter how much your circumstances might change?
I hope to always be creating beautiful things with beautiful people, no matter how big or small.
