There were a lot of highlights for book lovers at the 2017 Emmy Awards. Chief among them for many, of course, was seeing Margaret Atwood on stage when the series based on her 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, cleaned… Continue Reading
In a television trend that would seem likely to translate to fiction, The Chicago Tribune reports on a trend towards feel-good television. “The feel-good Hallmark Channel is booming in the age of Trump,” blared the headline of an August 2017… Continue Reading
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company has secured the rights to develop a film based on Walter Isaacson’s (The Innovators, Steve Jobs) yet-to-be-released 2017 book, Leonardo Da Vinci (Simon & Schuster). From Deadline Hollywood: Legend has it that Leonardo… Continue Reading
It would seem Hollywood currently has space on the mind. Two significant space-related projects with strong ties to successful past films and based on bestselling books had recent news to share. From Deadline Hollywood comes word about Apollo 8, set… Continue Reading
Those waiting for word on the 25th entry in the James Bond film franchise will have to wait a little longer. There is news, but it’s slight. The film will be released on November 8, 2019. And that’s about it.… Continue Reading
Arguably, no one is doing a better job of forecasting what will happen in the remainder of season seven of Game of Thrones than Vanity Fair, and they seem fairly certain that we’re going to be seeing a lot more… Continue Reading
Isaac Asimov’s brilliant Foundation series is one of the most ambitious, far-reaching works of science fiction ever published. The story spans 30,000 years and many worlds. Wikipedia boils the concept down as tightly as can be: The focus of… Continue Reading
A pilot order has been given for supernatural thriller Nightflyers, to be adapted from a novella by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin. From Deadline Hollywood: Jeff Buhler (Jacob’s Ladder) wrote the adaptation of Nightflyers, which is set… Continue Reading
It will be interesting to see what Sony Pictures does with The Day the Crayons Quit (Philomel Books), a children’s picture book that has spent 200 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. From Deadline Hollywood: The book follows… Continue Reading
We’ve known for a long time that winter was coming, but the season 7 teaser trailer of Game of Thrones reveals there may be something even worse in the wings. The impossibly popular HBO series is based on the bestselling… Continue Reading