British screenwriter John Hodge adapted The Beach for a movie from the novel by which author?
The Beach (film) The Beach is a 2000 British-American adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet and, Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi.
Weymouth Sands Weymouth Sands was written by John Cowper Powys in rural upper New York State and published in February 1934 in New York City by Simon and Schuster. It was published in Britain as Jobber Skald in 1935 by John Lane. "Weymouth Sands" was the third of John Cowper Powys's so-called Wessex novels, which include "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), and "Maiden Castle" (1936). Powys was an admirer of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time". The setting of this novel is the English seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset.