Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the novel went on to win numerous literary prizes as well as make Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels list. Both an emotional story of England before and during World War II and an astute post-modern lesson on the unreliability of fiction, Atonement became an instant classic. While sitting in a park with his boys playing nearby, McEwan imagined "a young woman standing in a doorway, with wild flowers in her hand, looking for a vase." Spiraling out from single thought came an epic tale of three people whose lives are tragically intertwined by the lie one of them tells. Ian McEwan's 2001 novel Atonement began with a single image. We look at some of McEwan's more notable adaptations. McEwan made The Times' list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945." It is no wonder then that so many of his novels have been adapted into films, with still more in development. Both he and his work have won nearly every literary award, including the Man Booker Prize. In the last forty years, Ian McEwan has written some of Britain's most acclaimed novels. "Ian is someone who writes women incredibly skillfully," notes Ronan. Saoirse Ronan, who stars alongside Billy Howle, was thrilled to reunite with McEwan after having helped bring his novel Atonement to the screen a decade before. "He is so specific about character and place," Cooke explained. Director Dominic Cooke was so impressed with McEwan's adaptation that there was very little to do before filming.
Traditionally McEwan has left the job of adaptation to others, joking, "In the time it takes me to write two screenplays that do not get made, I could have written two new novels." But the elegant way the book tells how an eventful wedding night in 1962 utterly changed the destinies of a newly married couple seem to translate perfectly into a screenplay.
Even before the novel hit bookstores, film companies were interested in turning this story into a movie. After writing his novel On Chesil Beach in 2007, Ian McEwan did something he rarely does-he wrote the screenplay.
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