Film adaptation adapted as both a musical play called "Kiss Me, Kate", which opened on Broadway in 1948, and as the 1953 Hollywood musical of the same name. "The Taming of the Shrew" was again retold in 1999 as a teen comedy set in a high school in "10 Things I Hate about You", and also in 2003 as an urban romantic comedy, "Deliver Us from Eva". The 1961 musical film "West Side Story" was adapted from "Romeo and Juliet", with its first incarnation as a Broadway musical play that opened in 1957. The animated film "The Lion King" (1994) was inspired
Carter Covington 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You". He often collaborated with original film director Gil Junger on various ABC Family projects, where he regularly quizzed Junger for information about the movie. These discussions with Junger, coupled with Covington's desire to create a "reimagined" TV version of the movie, led to the creation of a pilot episode of "10 Things I Hate About You", which Junger directed. On July 7, 2009, the series premiere brought in 1.60 million viewer, a record for a 30-minute comedy debut on the ABC Family network. The series was canceled after one twenty-episode season. Covington