Since its earliest days, Hollywood has been keen on adapting books for the display screen—and in recent times, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books have turn into much more common with screenwriters and studios. io9 has executed a number of lists like this up to now (there’s nonetheless time to learn Mickey7 earlier than Bong Joon Ho and Robert Pattinson’s Mickey 17 comes out subsequent yr!), however there are all the time potential new movie and TV tasks being introduced.
The Shiny Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
Lev Grossman (The Magicians) launched this recent tackle the legendary Knights of the Spherical Desk over the summer time and it turned a giant hit with reader. However even earlier than it arrived on bookshelves, Lionsgate had snapped up the rights for a collection adaptation, in accordance with a Deadline report.
Seveneves
In August, Deadline scooped that the rights to Neal Stephenson’s 2015 sci-fi novel had been acquired by Legendary Tv (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters). In line with the commerce, Seveneves “follows how the most effective scientific minds come to the identical conclusion after a meteor shatters the moon into seven items: in two years’ time, all people on Earth might be destroyed by a ‘arduous rain’ that can make the planet uninhabitable. In a feverish race in opposition to the inevitable, nations across the globe band collectively to plot a plan to make sure survival for humanity, initiating a brand new chapter for mankind.”
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman’s indie novel (the primary in a seven-part collection) received a conventional publishing launch in August, which is similar month it was nabbed for a TV collection adaptation by a crew that features Seth MacFarlane’s manufacturing firm. In line with Deadline, the battle over the property was “extremely aggressive,” and Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok, The Mandalorian) is aboard to pen the variation. Who will play Princess Donut, Carl’s feline sidekick? Place all bets now.
MEM
Bethany C. Morrow’s dystopian 2018 novel is ready in a world the place individuals can extract their recollections—after which re-live them time and again, with worrisome penalties. In August, it was introduced within the Hollywood Reporter that actor turned screenwriter Nesta Cooper (Apple TV+’s See) will tackle the big-screen adaptation.
Within the Misplaced Lands
A brief story by Sport of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin (it seems in 1982 multi-author anthology Amazons II) will type the idea for a fantasy journey movie from the Resident Evil crew of Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich, with Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Dave Bautista additionally a part of the solid. In line with Deadline, whose information story suggests this movie is already accomplished because it’s in regards to the acquisition of its U.S. rights, “the story facilities on a queen who, determined to satisfy her love, makes a daring play: she sends the highly effective and feared sorceress Grey Alys (Jovovich) to the ghostly wilderness of the Misplaced Lands in quest of a magical energy, the place the sorceress and her information, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), should outwit and outfight man and demon.”
Three Kings: The Institute, Fairy Story, Carrie
With all of the big-name casting bulletins for Edgar Wright’s Working Man we’ve been getting recently, it’s virtually attainable to overlook how a lot extra Stephen King is on the best way.
These three are simply among the many most lately introduced, so think about this merely a drop within the King bucket: child-genius story The Institute is getting an MGM+ collection starring Mary-Louise Parker and Ben Barnes (learn extra particulars at Deadline); epic fantasy Fairy Story is being made right into a collection—outlet TBD—by A24, director Paul Greengrass, and showrunner J.H. Wyman (Fringe); and the oft-adapted Carrie, King’s first revealed novel, will turn into an eight-episode Amazon Prime Video collection by famous King fanatic Mike Flanagan.
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