In 2018, a South Korean modern-day adaptation called Tempted also aired, starring Joy (from one of the country's biggest musical acts, Red Velvet) and Woo Do-hwan. In the same year, a Korean movie adaptation, Untold Scandal, transferred the plot, remarkably faithfully, to 18th century Korea. In 2003, another modern-dress (actually late 1950s/early 1960s) adaptation was filmed as a miniseries for French TV, starring Catherine Deneuve, Leelee Sobieski, Nastassja Kinski and Rupert Everett. It was updated in 1999 to a modern high school as Cruel Intentions. Another film adaptation, Valmont, starring Colin Firth, Annette Bening, and Meg Tilly, came out the very next year. The most well known adaptation (which is also based on the 1985 play) is without much doubt the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz and Keanu Reeves.

It was adapted as an English language stage play by Christopher Hampton in 1985 with its French title. The story follows wealthy aristocrats engaged in a malicious bet involving sexual conquests, revenge, manipulation, seduction, and love in the sophisticated, and decadent atmosphere of 18th century pre-Revolutionary French high society. Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons) is a seminal Epistolary Novel written by French author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos in 1782.

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