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If you were comparing him to famous detectives, I’d say he’s a more humble and
As I was watching the movie and its excellent cast, I was struck by how many amazing
So I decided to investigate the book adaptation lives of the Glass Onion cast
In this movie, Benoit has been invited to a party on a private island in Greece
This time, he’s throwing a murder mystery party and the victim will be him
Nothing ever goes wrong when someone throws one of those, right? JK, if you’ve read books
Writer and director Rian Johnson has said he was influenced by Agatha Christie in writing Glass Onion
They are really fun locked room mysteries with lots of secrets, outlandish locations, and motives, motives, motives
So here is a fun list of many of the adaptations they have been in
It’s not an absolutely complete list, but it covers a lot of them
As I said, there will be cameo spoilers at the bottom of the article, but I had
He was in a Zorro television series in 1995 and a television miniseries of Moll Flanders the following
He’s Connor Rooney in the 2002 adaptation of Road to Perdition, the graphic novel of gangsters during
He played poet Ted Hughes in 2003’s Sylvia and Perry Smith, one of the convicted killers in 2006’
He first played Bond in Casino Royale (2006), and then four more films
He starred alongside Harrison Ford in Cowboys & Aliens (2011), based on the comic by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Upcoming: He has a role in the adaptation of Purity by Jonathan Franzen
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In his second-ever film, he played alter boy Aaron in 1997’s Primal Fear, based on the novel
He was Will Graham in the remake of Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (2002)
He’s Eisenheim in The Illusionist, based on Steven Millhauser’s short story “Eisenheim the Illusionist” (2006)
After Eric Bana but before Mark Ruffalo, he was Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk (2008)
He makes an appearance in The Bourne Legacy by Robert Ludlum (2012)
Her first adaptation role was in Ricochet River, based on the novel by Robin Cody (2001)
She was in The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (2010), in which nothing good happens to anyone,
Moving on to happier fare, she was in the adaptation of Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin (2011)
She had a role in The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (2012)
If you didn’t follow Bautista’s wrestling career, then the first time you noticed him was
He was in the Blade Runner sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017), inspired by the novel Do Androids Dream of
He appeared as Glossu Rabban Harkonnen in the 2021 adaptation of Frank Hebert’s Dune, and will reprise
But before that, he’ll star in Knock at the Cabin, based on The Cabin at the
She starred alongside Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013), based on a short story
And the second is the adaptation of The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (2015)
She starred with Kevin Bacon in the short-lived series I Love Dick, based on the novel by
Fletcher miniseries (2019) based on the novel by Tom Perotta (who has had almost every work made into
She stole the show in Wandavision (2021) the series based on the Marvel comics
He appeared in an episode of Gotham in 2014, based on Batman lore
He became a household name as Aaron Burr in the original Broadway run of Hamilton (2016), influenced by
He had a role in Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient
Henwick’s most famous literary role is probably her turn as Nymeria Sand in the Game of
She voices a character in the Blade Runner: Black Lotus animated series (2021)
And she has a role in The Gray Man, based on the series by Mark Greaney (2022)
Madeline Cline does not have many book adaptation roles under her belt, but she’s just getting
These stars had cameos in Glass Onion and have a LOT of book adaptation roles between them