Paul Theroux - Adaptations

Adaptations

• Saint Jack, Theroux's 1973 novel was filmed by director Peter Bogdanovich (1979).
• His novel Doctor Slaughter was made into a film, Half Moon Street (1986).
• His novel The Mosquito Coast was made into a film of the same name (1986).
• Chinese Box (1997), a film about the British handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, credits Theroux as a source for the story, based on themes he explored in his 1997 novel Kowloon Tong.
• A Christmas Card was a radio play dramatized by Nick Warburton and directed by Marilyn Imrie for BBC Radio 4, 29 December 1997.
• The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro was a radio play directed by Lu Kemp for BBC Radio 4, 17 December 2004.