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Book Adaptations Coming Soon to a TV or Theater Near You
Posted about 1 year ago by Amy H
Librarians have to keep up on so much these days. Books, movies, technology, trends and so on. Sometimes it can be exhausting. Other times, it can be fun. Like when you find out about upcoming book adaptations. It's always exciting to learn about things before they happen - it's like having an inside scoop.
Below, are a handful of book adaptations coming out soon. If you haven't already, check out the books from the Library before watching the television or movie versions.
Upcoming Adaptations
Good Omens – Amazon prime May 31, 2019
Where’d You Go Bernadette – August 2019
The Kitchen – August 2019
IT Chapter Two – September 2019
The Goldfinch – September 2019
The Woman in the Window – October 2019
Little Women – December 2019
Artemis Fowl – Spring 2020
Check Out the Books from the Library
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But wait, there's more ...
Some of these may already be out, but it's still good to be in the know.
Amy Poehler is directing the adaptation of Moxie for Netflix!
Vanity Fair’s Gwyneth Hughes is adapting The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, which looks at the lives of the five victims of Jack the Ripper.
The Haunting of Hill House is getting an anthology treatment with its second season, which is supposedly based on The Turn of the Screw.
Don Winslow’s books The Border, The Cartel and The Power of the Dog have been acquired by FX to be adapted into a series.
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New details about the upcoming Lord of the Rings series coming to Amazon have emerged. And if THAT doesn’t get your geek on, here’s the new trailer for the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic called – wait for it – Tolkien.
An update on the series based on the wonderful Children of Blood and Bone.
Get your tissues ready: Kristin Hannah’s tearjerker Firefly Lane is coming to Netflix.
The Wizard of Oz books are being developed into a TV series.
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Check out the trailers for HBO’s Native Son and the BBC’s His Dark Materials TV series.
Netflix has plans to develop a Spanish-language series based on Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi is being made into a movie.
And here's a fantastic update on all the YA book-to-movie adaptations in the works.
A new Miss Marple series is headed to television.
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Disclaimer: Movie trailers may not be appropriate for all audiences. And release dates may change for movies and television premieres.
Blog content composed by Amy H. and April S.
Featured Image Credit: Image by Kerstin Riemer from Pixabay.
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