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Sep 21, 2022 · Netflix has some of the best adaptations from books out there. Bridgerton, You, The Queen's Gambit, Longmire, and more have all been adapted from novels.
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Shot in moody black-and-white, Steven Zaillian’s psychological thriller Ripley is a stylish take on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime classic The Talented Mr. Ripley. The 2024 limited series stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, a petty grifter in early ’60s New York who stumbles into a plum job when he’s hired to track down a wealthy businessman’s waywa...
Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (True Blood), and based on the best-selling novels by Cixin Liu, this epic drama has an unstoppable pop-culture pedigree. Spanning decades and continents, the eight-episode 3 Body Problem imagines what happens when a young scientist makes a bold decision in 1960s China that...
Looking for your next will they, won’t they romance? One Dayis the slow burn that will tug at your heartstrings. Based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel, the 14-episode limited series explores how impulsive decisions can send our lives off track, before fate intervenes to course-correct. Dexter (Leo Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod)’s love story be...
Why stop at a Pulitzer? In 2023, Anthony Doerr’s stirring 2014 novel scored a mini-series adaptation as well. Developed by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy, the WWII drama All the Light We Cannot See stars newcomer Aria Mia Lobertias Marie-Laure, a blind French teenage girl who flees Paris with her father (Mark Ruffalo) upon the invasion of...
A popular manga gets the live-action treatment with ONE PIECE, developed by Matt Owens and Steven Maeda from Eiichiro Oda’s series of the same name. The lively adventure talefollows a group of friends, led by pirate Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), who seek a storied treasure. Relying on their wits, their unique skills, and each other, the lovable cr...
Get spooked with these creepy tales from Mike Flanagan, who adapted Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House for the show and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw for its follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor. Though each series tells a completely independent story, the two are linked by eerie vibes — and, of course, the premise of a haunting. Fla...
Sales of chess sets skyrocketed (really!) following the release of this mini-series written and directed by Scott Frank, based on Walter Tevis’ novel, about a chess prodigy in the 1960s. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a young woman who learns the game from the janitor at her orphanage. She competes her way to the highest level of the chess w...
You may think of Henry Cavill as Superman, but the DCEU isn’t the actor’s only foray into the world of the superpowered. Cavill stars in The Witcher, adapted from the novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, as the monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia. (He’ll pass the torch, and the sword, when Liam Hemsworth takes over the role in Season 4.) The fantasy serie...
One of the original Netflix originals, Orange Is the New Black premiered in 2013, ran for seven seasons, and collected dozens of accolades. Based on Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (and fictionalized beyond Kerman’s own experience), the dramedy chronicles the lives of the inmates in a women’s prison. The e...
Super-producer David E. Kelley logged a busy spring of 2022, when Anatomy of a Scandal and The Lincoln Lawyer were released within a month of each other. The latter show, adapted from Michael Connelly’s books about fictional defense lawyer Mickey Haller (Season 1 was based on The Brass Verdict, the second novel to feature the character), stars Manu...
- Everything I Know About Love - BBC. Everything I Know About Love was the book everyone was talking about back in 2018, and now the Dolly Alderton book is finally being turned into a TV show thanks to the BBC.
- Holding - BBC. This upcoming four-part series, based on the novel Holding by chat show host Graham Norton, follows a local police officer, Sergeant PJ Collins, a "gentle mountain of a man" who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work.
- Daisy Jones and the Six - Amazon Prime. We can't wait to see this brought to life on screen! Taylor Jenkins Reid's New York Times bestseller Daisy Jones and the Six recounts the story of the rise and fall of a fictional '70s band.
- Queenie - Channel 4. Fans of the 2019 hit Millenial novel Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams will be thrilled to hear that the bestseller is being made into a TV series for Channel 4.
Jun 24, 2021 · If you are looking for books to read in 2021, consider these page turners that will soon be adapted into TV shows and films like Clarice, To All the Boys 3, Shadow and Bone, Firefly Lane, A ...
Apr 25, 2024 · The show is also executive produced by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, who oversaw all of the Arrowverse comic book shows on The CW, and Jeremy Carver, who was an EP on “Supernatural.” That’s...
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Feb 20, 2024 · 2. Virgin River. Netflix. Viewers were introduced to the world of Virgin River in December 2019 when Season 1 was released on Netflix. It was easy to fall in love with the quaint outpost in...
