Examples of unfilmable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book seemed unfilmable, but director Chloé Zhao and star Frances McDormand reconceived it as a magical, compassionate drama about people living without homes. — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 25 Dec. 2020 Of course, there are still those who maintain The Sandman is essentially unfilmable, even given today's cutting-edge technology. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020 Of course, there are still those who maintain The Sandman is essentially unfilmable, even given today's cutting-edge technology. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020 Of course, there are still those who maintain The Sandman is essentially unfilmable, even given today's cutting-edge technology. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2020 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. — Katie Walsh, idahostatesman, 22 Feb. 2018 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? — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 9 Feb. 2018 All of these books represented major shifts for the science fiction genre and, until recently, would probably have been considered unfilmable. — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2017 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. — Akiva Gottlieb, latimes.com, 5 May 2017

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