103. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Happy Halloween! We didn't want to break our streak of getting spooky for the holiday, so for episode 103 we're diving into sci-fi horror with the paranoid classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

In this episode we discuss:

• The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney's original 1956 novel
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), directed by Don Siegel, written by Daniel Mainwaring, and starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, and Larry Gates
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W.D. Richter, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright
• Body Snatchers (1993), directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Nicholas St. John, and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker
• The Invasion (2007), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by David Kajganich, and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright

Footnotes:

• Capgras delusion
• "This is Reality" from TV Tropes
• Jeff Goldblum's IMDb profile
• "Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director", The Hollywood Reporter's interview with Philip Kaufman
• Roger Ebert's Review of Body Snatchers (1993)
• Meg Tilly's blog post about her Body Snatchers body double
• "Cool Glitch Effect On Movie Studio Logo Must Mean Shit About To Go Down" from The Onion

102. The Four Year Spectacular!

Episode 102 of Adapt or Perish is here, and it’s time for our Four Year Spectacular! In it, we’ll look back at the best (and worst) adaptations that this past year has given us.

In this episode we discuss the episodes in which we discussed:

• The Addams Family
• High Fidelity
• Christmas in Connecticut
• The Manchurian Candidate
• The Parent Trap
• 3:10 to Yuma
• Emma (and Clueless)
• Valley of the Dolls
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• A Little Princess
• Wings of Desire and City of Angels
• The Witches
• Stuart Little
• Wuthering Heights
• Planet of the Apes
• Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
• The Stepford Wives
• Les Misérables
• 101 Dalmatians

Footnotes:

• A picture of Enrica Soma, Anjelica Huston's mother
• @hayleymills_official on Instagram

101. 101 Dalmatians

What better way is there to commemorate episode 101 of Adapt or Perish than with a look at the Disney classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians?

In this episode we discuss:

• Dodie Smith's original 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Disney's 1961 animated movie, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman, and written by Bill Peet
• 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action remake, directed by Stephen Herek, written by John Hughes, and starring Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, and Hugh Laurie

Footnotes:

• I Capture the Castle
• The Starlight Barking
• Nothing Like a Dame (released in the United States as Tea With the Dames)