All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Michael Wincott, ranked

In 1815, Edmond Dantès, second mate of a French merchant vessel, and his friend Fernand Mondego, a representative of the shipping company, seek medical help on Elba for their ailing captain. Having kept his guardians from killing the pair, Bonaparte privately requests that Edmond deliver a letter to the mainland in exchange for his physician’s services.

On October 30, Devil’s Night in Detroit, Sergeant Albrecht is at the scene of a crime where Shelly Webster has been beaten and raped, and her fiancé, Eric Draven, lies dead on the street after having been stabbed, shot, and thrown out the window. The couple had planned on getting married the following day, Halloween. One year later, a crow taps on the grave stone of Eric Draven; Eric awakens and climbs out of his grave.

On the planet Montressor, young Jim Hawkins is enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Nathaniel Flint and his ability to appear from out of nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious Treasure Planet. 12 years later, Jim has grown into an aloof and isolated troublemaker due to his father abandoning him and his mother.

The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas is born in Oriente in 1943 and raised by his single mother and her parents, who soon move the entire family to Holguín. Through his work and friendships with other openly gay men Arenas manages to find himself.

After Washington, D.C., detective forensic psychologist and author Alex Cross loses control of a sting operation, resulting in the death of his partner, he retires from the force. He is drawn back to police work when Megan Rose, the daughter of a United States senator, is kidnapped from her exclusive private school by Gary Soneji, a computer science teacher.

In 1625, young-but-skilled fencer d’Artagnan sets off for Paris, France in hopes to follow in his murdered father’s footsteps and become a member of the musketeers: the personal guard of the King of France. Unfortunately, Captain Rochefort of the Cardinal’s Guards has disbanded the musketeers per the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, the King’s Minister, ostensibly to help fight in an impending war with England.

In 2379, two hundred years after the events of Alien 3, military scientists on the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of Ellen Ripley, designated Ripley 8, using DNA from blood samples taken before her death. The scientists extract the embryo, raise it, and collect its eggs while keeping Ripley 8 alive for further study.

Filmmaker Ben is followed as he interacts with immature directors and actors, attends to the demands of numerous ex-wives, and closes multi-million dollar deals while driving. With Sean Penn and Bruce Willis as themselves, the movie combines imagination and reality as a fake director and producer argue over the editing of a new movie.