This class is all about the rule book adjustment . Game of Thrones , Warm Bodies , Beautiful Creatures and World War Z ( sort of ) were all account book first ! So here is our all-encompassing scout to just about every movie and TV series turning your pet book into a live - action mechanism curiosity . Get out your reading inclination so you too can say “ the book was better . ”
Carrie
A must - understand , as the splendid Kimberly Peirce promises her movie rendering of Stephen King ’s classic is much close to the novel than Brian De Palma ’s work . Additional book details let in the epic end - town takedown , and details on Margaret White ’s backstory and singing ( so much telling ) . musical note : Peirce is still a HUGE fan of the original , so that was n’t a knock .
Release Date : October 18th , 2013
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speak of the very talented King family , Stephen ’s boy Joe Hill is catch a movie this year starring Harry Potter . Daniel Radcliffe will play Hill ’s gothic fiction Horns novel to animation , in which he plays main case Ig Perrish , who rise horns after his girlfriend is murdered . And then he utilise these magical horn to witness out whodunnit . While we ’re paint a cute icon , this book is demented flaming ( and great ) .
Release Date : October 11th , 2013
The Hundred
Set in a post - apocalyptic future , the human universe is pin down in blank space , Earth being ruined with radiotherapy and whatnot . But now enough time has passed that it might be habitable again … might . So the government institutionalize 100 expendable shaver from the space Juvenile Detention center to examine it out . The CW picked up this just unloose book for a TV series ; the trailer was just released , andyou can watch it here .
First trailers for The 100 , The Originals and even more CW shows
Release Date : Fall of 2013
Under the Dome
An inconspicuous forcefield traps a small Ithiel Town under an impenetrable domed stadium . Then everything goes to hell , as it so often does in the lowly towns of Stephen King ’s imagination . The series just aerate this week on CBS , thanks to showrunner Brian K. Vaughan . The playscript is long as hell , but there ’s nothing better than cognise the doom that awaits your favorite townie .
Release Date : Now ( it ’s only one instalment deep , there ’s still time ! )
Ender ’s Game
Boy genius Ender is plucked from obscurity and placed in the middle of an alien war in the hereafter , because Thomas Kid ’ minds are the best weapon in this future universe . Gavin Hood is directing Hugo virtuoso Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggins , who will link Sir Ben Kingsley , Viola Davis and Harrison Ford in space to struggle for the hereafter of humanity . Many folk reduce their scifi dentition on this novel . It ’s a lightning loyal read — you should probably just get through it one weekend before the trailers bollix the whole affair for you anyway .
Release Date : November 1st , 2013
Divergent
A lot of people have been address Divergent the new Hunger Games , and as far as the books go , they ’re right . position in a next world of Chicago where the population is broken down by personalities ( cabal ) , the leger features tremendous characters , great military action and the love scenes are spicy . Granted , it ’s not the most poetic prose , but you ’ll burn down through it . The moving picture is being conduct by Neil Burger of Limitless , starring a cast of kids . Think tongue - throwing , demise and arduous kisses mixed with conspiracy .
Release Date : March 21st , 2014
The Futurological Congress / The Congress
Release Date : It premiered at Cannes , but does n’t have an prescribed release date yet ( expect for it at future festival )
The Maze Runner
The hugely pop YA novel is coming to the heavy screen star that kid everyone likes from Teen Wolf . Set in the time to come , the main fibre wakes up in a giant maze and no memories . Thus begin the running .
Release Date : February 14th , 2014
If I Stay
A strange , out - of - consistency moving picture about a teenager who decrease into a coma after a horrendous chance event . From outside her human shell she watches as friends and kinfolk claver her hospital room and is face with a complicated selection : return to her body and lead a toilsome spirit … or die . This adaption has been float around FOREVER . First , Catherine Hardwicke was attached to manoeuver , then Heitor Dhalia ( both are out ) . Dakota Fanning was originally go to star , but now the blowtorch has been past to Chloe Moretz , who is still attached to the project with RJ Cutler from Nashville as director . We have all our fingers crossed for the futurity of this pic .
Release Date : No particular date yet ( still in ontogenesis )
The Hunger Games : Catching Fire
There ’s still time to catch up on everyone ’s favorite airport meter reading . The second movie is still months away and while its assumption is very similar to the first playscript , we promise you it ’s still great . Sexy new characters like Finnick are introduced and ALL THE RULES ARE BROKEN . fill them now , so you may be disappointed when they all become flat later .
Release Date : November 22nd , 2013
The Mortal Instruments : City of Bones
It ’s like Harry Potter meets Constantine . A teenage female child flips out when she starts seeing demons on the streets , and then tack out even more when a sexy guy appears and slaying articulate demons right in front of her middle . Turns out she ’s a peculiar peeress , because only limited multitude can see the “ Shadowhunters ” — those who hunt shadows or demons or what have you . Yada , yada , yada , she begin demon hunting , too .
Release Date : August 21st , 2013
Percy Jackson : Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson is back with his circle of aphrodisiac adolescent Greek Supreme Being , and they ’ve get a new mission — they need to find the Golden Fleece . We continue to pledge our love for this precious book series and its similarly adorable moving-picture show dealership . It ’s fun , it ’s cagey and there are Centaur in it . Done and done .
Release Date : August 7th , 2013
Winter ’s Tale
Oh my god we have it off this book . Set in an alternate world of New York City where there ’s magic and priggish values , Winter ’s Tale follow the inside workings of the wizardly crowd of New York . There ’s a vaporize horse , too ( you ’re welcome ) . The movie adaptation ’s cast is gangbusters : Colin Farrell , Russell Crowe , Jessica Brown Findlay , Jennifer Connelly and Will Smith . BOOM !
Release Date : No date yet
The Last Apprentice/ Seventh Son
While penned for the young breed of mankind , The Last Apprentice is a moderately morose bit of fantasy . sword , magic , witches and all that sound stuff are all over this novel . It ’s upright versus evil , and in the picture the good will be stand for as a thaumaturge ( or Spook ) play by Jeff Bridges , and the evil is gorgeous witch char Julianne Moore .
Release Date : January 17th , 2014
The Ocean at the end of the Lane
This Koran just gain theshelves on June 13th , and now Joe Wright is turning this innovative day fairy story into a pic .
Neil Gaiman explores the murkiest waters of all : childhood memories
The Leftovers
The source of Election and Little Children takes on The Rapture . This book does n’t draw the end of days , but rather what go on to all the leftovers sill on the planet after God inspirit off his followers . Damon Lindelof and author Tom Perrotta are working together on an HBO series of this awful record , and Perrotta is a freaking genius , so we can not wait .
Outlander
Starz has ordered up a 16 - episode serial publication of Outlander , the time - move around , Scottish lovemaking taradiddle . The show is an adaptation of Gabaldon ’s book series , centered around a World War II nursemaid who by chance journey back in time to 1743 and is get in the middle of raiding boundary line clans in Scotland . RDM , back on the small screen . We pretermit you !
Vampire Academy
We know , we acknowledge vampires , UGH . But take heed us out for one s , Richelle Mead is a great writer . And main character , Rose Hathaway , is a high-risk ass mother who is also a Dhampir ( one-half human , one-half vampire ) . At the academy Rose is trained in the art of protecting vampires and is tasked with protecting her best friend Lissa , a Moroi Vampire Princess . It ’s 100 % not your average girl meets vampire , vampire bites daughter supernatural narrative . Crazy gorgeous actress Zoey Deutch has been cast as Road and Lucy Fry will play her vampire protagonist .
panic
AMC is making an arctic - Explorer - vs.-monster show that is somehow not The matter
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
apologia , we forgot one of the most exciting adaptions happening right now . BBC is conform a series based around this amazing fantasy miniseries set during the Napoleonic Wars . The only news we have mightily now is Doctor Who and Sherlock theater director , Toby Haynes , has been charter to send the series .
Release Date : Possibly in 2013
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