books to film

The debut novel that got all the buzz at Frankfurt this year is All Our Wrong Todays by screenwriter/producer Elan Mastai (What If, The Samaritan). Earlier this month, Publishers Weekly reported that the “buzzed-about debut novel has been nabbed in a seven-figure, North American rights acquisition. Canadian screenwriter Elan Mastai’s debut novel All Our Wrong Todays was preempted by Maya Ziv at Dutton for a rumored $1.25 million.” All Our Wrong Todays follows a man […]

Assessments of “great” and “awful” are subjective. The films I love you may well loathe, that’s a given. Even so, Looper rushes right in to compile a list of “Great Books That Were Turned Into Awful Movies.” You won’t agree with the inclusions on all of these: some weren’t great books. And were all the movies listed here “awful”? We don’t think so. The Hobbit was certainly a great book. But calling the three films adapted […]

It was arguably one of the more influential films of the 1990s. Now, finally, 20-plus years later,the Trainspotting movie is getting a sequel… and it won’t be called Porno, which was the book author Irvine Welsh followed that earlier novel with. From Slashfilm: Whenever [filmmaker Danny Boyle] is promoting a new movie, there are two projects he’s always going to be asked about — 28 Months Later and the Trainspotting 2. Both films have been kicking around for […]