The Writing Journey -017 | Mysteries, Myths & More

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• “Walking,” an essay (also called, “The Wild”) by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1862, but delivered as lectures prior to that.
• Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002; produced by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara in 1996.
• 1917, 2019; writers, Same Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns; director, Sam Mendes.
• The Maze Runner, 2014 (and series); directed by Wes Ball, based on James Dashner’s 2009 novel of the same name.
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote in two-parts, 1605/1615.
• Jean Ramón Jiménez, Platero and I, 1914.
• Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1958.
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994; conceived by filmmakers Stephan Elliott and Stuart Quin; director, Stephan Elliott.
• William Faulkner, As I lay Dying, 1930
• Thelma and Louise, 1991; director, Scott Thomas; writers, Sidney Iwanter and Mark Onspaugh.
• Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries, 1952.
• Victor Hugo Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book (also The Negro Motorist Green-Book, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, or simply the Green Book), 1936-1966; was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers, originated and published by African American, New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green.
• Green Book; 2018; writers, Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, and Nick Vallelonga; director, Peter Farrelly.
• Zombieland, 2009; writers: Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick; director: Ruben Fleischer.
• Steven King, The Langoliers, 1995.
• Airplane!, 1980; written and directed by David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams; producer, Jon Davison.
• Air Force One, 1997; writer, Andrew W. Marlowe; directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen.
• Flight of the Living Dead, 2007; writers, Sidney Iwanter, Mark Onspaugh; director, Scott Thomas.
• The Aeronauts, 2019; writers, Tom Harper and Jack Thorne; director, Tom Harper.
• Around the World in Eighty Days; book by Jules Verne, 1872; it went through several iterations in film and other versions.
• Passengers, 2016; originally written by Jon Spaihts in 2007; director, Morten Tyldum.
• Gravity, 2013; directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón with his son, Jonas.
• Star Trek (The Original Series), 1966-69; created by Gene Roddenberry; aired on NBC-TV.
• Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, 1934.
• The Lady Vanishes, 1938; writers, Ethel Lina White (based on the story, “The Wheel Spins”) and Sidney Gilliat; producer, Alfred Hitchcock.
• The Polar Express, 2004; animated film based on the 1985 children’s book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg; co-written, co-produced, and directed by Robert Zemeckis.
• The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, 2009; directed by Tony Scott; a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Morton Freedgood (writing under the pseudonym John Godey), and is a remake of the original 1974.
• Snowpiercer (movie), 2013; director, Bong Jooh-ho; writers, Bong Joon-ho and Kelly Masterson, adapted from French graphic, Le Transperceneigem 1982, authors Jean-Marc Rochette, Jacques Lob, and Benjamin Legrand; (t.v. series), 2020—; TNT network.
• Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, 2006.
• Leon Uris, Exodus, 1958.
• Dante Alighieri, The Inferno (first part of The Divine Comedy), c. 1308-1329, Italy.
• Homer, The Odyssey, 8th century B.C.; Greece.
• Das Boot (English: “The Boat”), 1981; written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen; produced by Günter Rohrbach.
• The Hunt for Red October, 1990; adapted to film the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy, 1984.
• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1851.
• Titanic, 1997; written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.
• The African Queen, 1951; adapted by John Houston and James Agee from the C.S. Forrester 1935 novel of the same name.
• Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, 1952.
• Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884 (in the U.K.) and 1885 (in the U.S.).