Definition of unfilmable
: not fit or able to be adapted to motion pictures : not filmable
- an unfilmable novel
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Garland, who adapted the screenplay, takes the premise, characters and larger ideas of VanderMeer’s book, and interprets them in his own story to bring an almost unfilmable novel to the big screen as a sci-fi epic.
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Who but a precocious 23-year-old would have the temerity to confront one of the twentieth century’s densest and wildest novels, impenetrable to many readers and seemingly an unfilmable text?
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All of these books represented major shifts for the science fiction genre and, until recently, would probably have been considered unfilmable.
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The critically acclaimed adaptation of an epic, supposedly unfilmable James Ellroy novel — the third book in his L.A. Quartet — the film remains a sophisticated touchstone of Los Angeles mythmaking.
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First Known Use of unfilmable
1928
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