128. The Great Gatsby

Welcome to the party, old sport! Pour yourself a drink and settle in for Episode 128 of Adapt or Perish, our look at another nominee for Great American Novel™, The Great Gatsby!

In this episode, we discuss:

• F. Scott Fitzgerald's original 1925 novel
• The 1949 theatrical movie, directed by Elliott Nugent, written by Richard Mailbaum and Cyril Hume, and starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Shelley Winters, and Howard Da Silva
• The 1974 theatrical movie, directed by Jack Clayton, written by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, and Karen Black
• The 2000 TV movie, directed by Robert Markowitz, written by John J. McLaughlin, and starring Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino, Paul Rudd, and Martin Donovan
• The 2013 theatrical movie, directed by Baz Luhrmann, written by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, and Isla Fisher

Footnotes:

• The lost 1926 Great Gatsby
• Ginevra King (1898–1980)
• William Goldman and Which Lie Did I Tell?

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127. Moby Dick

In Episode 127 of Adapt or Perish, we're taking to the high seas for a look at Moby Dick, the classic tale of obsession, revenge, and chapters upon chapters of whale anatomy.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Herman Melville's original 1851 novel
• The Sea Beast, the 1926 theatrical movie, directed by Millard Webb, written by Bess Meredyth, Rupert Hughes, and Jack Wagner, and starring John Barrymore
• The 1930 theatrical movie, directed by Lloyd Bacon, written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, and starring John Barrymore
• The 1956 theatrical movie, directed by John Huston, written by Huston and Ray Bradbury, and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Friedrich von Ledebur, and Orson Welles
• The 1998 miniseries, directed by Franc Roddam, written by Roddam, Anton Diether, and Benedict Fitzgerald, and starring Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Piripi Waretini, Ted Levine, and Gregory Peck
• The 1999 animated short, directed by Natalya Orlova, written by Brian Sibley, and starring Rod Steiger
• 2010: Moby Dick, the 2010 direct-to-video movie, directed by Trey Stokes, written by Paul Bales, and starring Barry Bostwick and Renee O'Connor
• The 2011 miniseries, directed by Mike Barker, written by Nigel Williams, and starring William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Charlie Cox, Eddie Marsan, and Gillian Anderson
• Age of the Dragons, the 2011 theatrical movie, directed by Ryan Little, written by Gil Aglaure, Anne K. Black, and McKay Daines, and starring Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, and Corey Sevier

Footnotes:

• "The King of the Geezer Teasers: Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement"
• The 1999 animated version of Moby Dick on YouTube
• Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer: A Novel by Sena Jeter Naslund

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126. Hamlet, Part 2

In Episode 126 of Adapt or Perish, we're back for a second discussion about William Shakespeare's Hamlet! This time we're focusing on a selection of what can best be described as the many Hamlet "derivatives" that have been brought to the stage and screen.

In this episode, we discuss:

• To Be or Not to Be (the 1942 theatrical movie), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, written by Lubitsch and Edwin Justus Mayer, and starring Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, Robert Stack, and Sig Ruman
• The Bad Sleep Well (the 1960 theatrical movie), directed by Akira Kurosawa, written by Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Eijirō Hisaita, Ryūzō Kikushima, and Shinobu Hashimoto, and starring Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura
• To Be or Not to Be (the 1983 theatrical movie), directed by Alan Johnson, written by Ronny Graham and Thomas Meehan, and starring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Christopher Lloyd, and Tim Matheson
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (the 1966 play and the 1990 theatrical movie), both written by Tom Stoppard, who also directed the movie, which starred Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Richard Dreyfuss
• The Lion King (the 1994 movie), directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton, and starring Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, and Ernie Sabella
• In the Bleak Midwinter (or A Midwinter's Tale) (the 1995 theatrical movie), written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Joan Collins, Nicholas Farrell, Celia Imrie, and Julia Sawalha
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 Ep. 194: Hamlet (the 1961 TV movie and the 1999 TV episode, directed by Michael J. Nelson, and starring Nelson, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy (while this Hamlet was written and directed by Franz Peter Wirth and starred Maximilian Schell)
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (the 1987 play and the 2000 filmed stage performance, written by the Reduced Shakespeare Company (Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield) and starring Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor
• Slings & Arrows (the first season of the 2003–2006 TV series), created by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, and Mark McKinney, directed by Peter Wellington, and starring Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, McKinney, Coyne, and Rachel McAdams
• Hamlet 2 (the 2008 theatrical movie), directed by Andrew Fleming, written by Fleming and Pam Brady, and starring Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, Amy Poehler, and Elisabeth Shue
• The Lion King (the 2019 theatrical movie), directed by Jon Favreau, written by Jeff Nathanson, and starring Donald Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, James Earl Jones, Beyoncé, Billy Eichner, Seth Rogen, and John Oliver
• Ophelia (the 2019 theatrical movie), directed by Claire McCarthy, written by Semi Chellas, and starring Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, and George MacKay
• The Northman (the 2022 theatrical movie), directed by Robert Eggers, written by Eggers and Sjón, and starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, and Ethan Hawke

Footnotes:

• The Spanish Tragedy
• Saxo Grammaticus and the legend of Amleth
• Sir John Everett Millais' "Ophelia"
• Alan Johnson's Solarbabies as covered in Ep. 135 of How Did This Get Made?
• Due South and Passchendaele

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