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Nov 10, 2022 · Season one, titled “The Secret History of the Casting Couch,” will detail the notorious Hollywood casting couch through the decades and draw parallels between recent sex scandals and...
Jul 29, 2024 · From The Idea of You to It Ends With Us, a look at the recent and upcoming book adaptations hitting the screen.
- Lexy Perez
- Anatomy of A Scandal
- Heartstopper
- Under The Banner of Heaven
- Conversations with Friends
- Where The Crawdads Sing
- Salem’s Lot
- She Said
- Luckiest Girl Alive
- A Man called Otto
- The Summer I Turned Pretty
Prepare for slow-burning suspense in this #MeToo-era courtroom thriller, which centers on bad behavior among Britain’s elite. James (Rupert Friend), a prominent politician, and his wife, Sophie (Sienna Miller), are seemingly thriving until James is accused of professional misconduct—and then of far worse things. The novel, published in 2018, was ad...
Heartstopper, Alice Oseman’s sweet webcomic—which began in 2016 and was eventually published as a series of graphic novels—charts the relationship between Charlie and Nick, two grammar-school boys who unexpectedly fall for each other. While the eight-part Netflix series is unlikely to stop your heart, it will almost certainly warm it.
Jon Krakauer’s 2003 true-crime bestselleris being adapted into a seven-episode limited series. It investigates the gruesome 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her infant daughter in Salt Lake City. Andrew Garfield portrays Detective Jeb Pyre, a devout Mormon who has to wrestle with his faith as he untangles the killings—a...
Perhaps you, too, have been waiting for another adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel since you finished binging Normal People. It’s finally here: the Irish author’s debut novel will be reimagined as a 12-episode series starring Alison Oliver, Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane, and Jemima Kirke. It follows a pair of best friends—Frances and Bobbi—as they become c...
Delia Owens’ best-selling 2018 novel is finally getting the big-screen treatment. The story focuses on Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), who was abandoned at a young age and raised herself in the North Carolina marshes. Years later, the lonely, mysterious girl is accused of murdering town heartthrob Chase (Harris Dickinson), who’d fallen for her but kept th...
A small New England town is invaded by vampires in Salem’s Lot, the latest Stephen Kingthriller being adapted into a movie. (The novel—King’s second, published in 1975—was also the inspiration for a 2004 TNT miniseries.) It’s about Ben (Lewis Pullman), a troubled writer who heads home to Jerusalem’s Lot in Maine, where his childhood demons transfor...
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal—which helped birth the #MeToo movement. They chronicled how they did it in She Said, a 2019 book that whisked readers behind-the-scenes of their investigative reporting. Now, Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are set to ...
Jessica Knoll, who wrote the 2015 thriller Luckiest Girl Alive, also penned the screenplay for the movie adaptation, which is due this year—starring and produced by Mila Kunis. The story, which was partly inspired by Knoll’s personal experiences, is about a woman who’s reinvented herself after being raped as a teenager. Years later, she seemingly h...
In Swedish author Fredrik Backman’s delightful debut novel, A Man Called Ove, the titular curmudgeon has a heart that’s too big—literally, but also, it turns out, metaphorically. That story is getting the big-screen treatment in the U.S., following the success of a Swedish adaptation that was nominated for a 2017 Academy Award. Ove has been renamed...
Before To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, there was The Summer I Turned Pretty. Jenny Han’s YA romance trilogy, which launched in 2009, is set to premiere as a Prime Video series this year. It’s about Belly (Lola Tung), a teenage girl who gets a crash course in love when she develops a relationship with two boys who fight for her affections. Expect...
Aug 19, 2024 · Here are the 30 best book-to-movie adaptations ever made, from classics like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to series like 'The Hunger Games' to recent hits like 'Dune.'
- Senior List Writer
- William Shakespeare — 1121. William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and is known for his plays, which explore themes of love, tragedy, comedy, and human nature.
- Agatha Christie — 48. Agatha Christie was an English writer of detective novels and short stories. She is considered one of the most significant and influential writers in the mystery genre, with her works selling over two billion copies worldwide.
- Stephen King — 34. Stephen King is a renowned American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels who has published over 60 novels and 200 short stories, many of which have been adapted into films, television series, and comic books.
- John Grisham — 15. John Grisham is an American author and former lawyer best known for writing legal thrillers that often deal with themes of corruption, justice, and morality.
Sep 11, 2024 · A few young adult book adaptations came out to considerably less fanfare, such as the first release from the ongoing Percy Jackson series - The Lightning Thief - but these are widely seen as exceptions rather than the rule. This list compiles the best films ever made based on books for young adults.
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Jul 1, 2023 · Here are ten of the best book-to-movie adaptations released in the past ten years: Best Recent Adaptations of Stephen King Books. 10 The Spectacular Now (2013) A24. Based on the 2008 novel...
