Poster for the film 'Adaptation'
- Made:
- 2002 in unknown place
Poster for the film 'Adaptation', 2002.
'Adaptation'. is a 2002 American comedy-drama metafilm directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Kaufman and his fictional twin brother Donald, Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean, and Chris Cooper as John Laroche, with Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in supporting roles.
It is based both on Orlean's nonfiction book 'The Orchid Thief' and Kaufman's experience attempting to adapt the book into a screenplay while suffering from writer's block. 'Adaptation' also adds a number of fictitious elements, including Kaufman's twin brother (also credited as a writer for the film) and a romance between Orlean and Laroche, and culminates in completely invented events including fictional versions of Orlean and Laroche three years after the events related in 'The Orchid Thief'.
