In 1954, Gore Vidal adapted "Barn Burning" into an episode of the same name for the CBS anthology series Suspense, starring E. G. Marshall.[3]
In 1958, Martin Ritt directed a film titled The Long, Hot Summer featuring actor Paul Newman. This film was based on three of Faulkner's works including "Barn Burning."[5] In 1985, a made-for-television remake of The Long, Hot Summer aired on NBC, starring Don Johnson.[3]
In 1980, the story was adapted into a PBS short film of the same name by director Peter Werner. It starred Tommy Lee Jones as Abner Snopes, Shawn Whittington as Sartoris Snopes, and Faulkner's nephew as De Spain.[3]
The 1995 Malaysian adaptation titled The Arsonist (Malay: Kaki Bakar) was made by director U-Wei Haji Saari. The Snopes family being post-Civil War farmers are instead rewritten as Javanese immigrants who had just moved into a new rubber plantation.[6]
The 2018 South Korean film Burning performs a stylistic adaptation merging elements of the Faulkner story with the Haruki Murakami story of the same name.[7]
