Dangerous Liaisons is adapted from the play of a British playwright who was born in 1946.
Christopher James Hampton , CBE , FRSL ( born 26 January 1946 ) is a British playwright , screenwriter , translator and film director . Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American historical drama film based upon Christopher Hampton 's play Les liaisons dangereuses , which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos . Dangerous Liaisons is a 2012 Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho loosely based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos .