Editing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (section)

===Film and television===
The poem has been adapted to film three times, twice by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as ''[[Gawain and the Green Knight (1973 film)|Gawain and the Green Knight]]'' 1973 which features [[Nigel Green]] in his final theatrical film as the Green Knight and [[Murray Head]] as Gawain, and again in 1984 as ''[[Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', featuring [[Miles O'Keeffe]] as Gawain and [[Sean Connery]] as the Green Knight. Both films have been criticised for deviating from the poem's plot, described by critic [[Mark Kermode]] as "cod antics".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Kermode |first1=Mark |last2=critic |first2=Mark Kermode Observer film |date=2021-09-26 |title=The Green Knight review – a rich and wild fantasy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/26/the-green-knight-review-david-lowery-dev-patel-gawain |access-date=2024-08-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Also, Bertilak and the Green Knight are never connected.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mills|first1=Maldwyn|year=1991|title=Review|journal=The Yearbook of English Studies|volume=21|pages=336–337|doi=10.2307/3508519|jstor=3508519}}</ref> On 30 July 2021, ''[[The Green Knight (film)|The Green Knight]]'' was released, directed by American filmmaker [[David Lowery (director)|David Lowery]] for [[A24]] and starring [[Dev Patel]] as Gawain and [[Ralph Ineson]] as the Green Knight,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Squires |first=John |date=17 December 2020 |title=A24 Finally Sets New Summer 2021 Release Date for 'The Green Knight' |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3645413/a24-finally-sets-new-summer-2021-release-date-green-knight/ |access-date=26 July 2021 |website=[[Bloody Disgusting]]}}</ref> albeit with some significant deviations from the original story.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Robinson|first=Joanna|date=30 July 2021|title=The Green Knight's Ending, Explained|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/07/green-knight-ending-explained-does-he-die-gawain-dev-patel|access-date=14 November 2021|magazine=Vanity Fair|language=en-US}}</ref>

There have been at least two television adaptations, J.M. Phillips’s, Gawain and the Green Knight in 1991, adapted by [[David Rudkin]] (responsible for folk-horror classic [[Penda's Fen|Penda’s Fen]]) was a T.V play made by Thames Television,<ref>{{Citation |last=Phillips |first=John Michael |title=Gawain and the Green Knight |date=1991-12-24 |type=Drama, Fantasy |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387245/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |others=Malcolm Storry, Valerie Gogan, Jason Durr |publisher=Thames Television}}</ref> and the animated ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' in 2002. The BBC broadcast a documentary presented by [[Simon Armitage]] in which the journey depicted in the poem is traced, using what are believed to be the actual locations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kvbny|title=Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|work=[[BBC Four]]|date=17 August 2010|access-date=5 August 2012}}</ref> A partial adaptation appears in the ''[[Adventure Time]]'' episode "Seventeen," which breaks from the original story after the main character, Finn, decapitates the Green Knight.<ref>{{cite web |title=Adventure Time: Seventeen |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7650228/ |website=IMDB |access-date=30 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fahey |first1=Richard |title=Fern: Adapting the Green Knight in Adventure Time |url=https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2022/09/14/fern-adapting-the-green-knight-in-adventure-time/ |website=Medieval Studies Research Blog: Meet Us at the Crossroads of Everything |publisher=University of Notre Dame }}</ref>