books to film

Unpublished Work by A Clockwork Orange Author Discovered

April 28, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

A Clockwork Orange was a seminal work. Published in 1962 and written by Anthony Burgess, the novel was as philosophical as it was entertaining. Categorized as “dystopian satirical black comedy,” the author himself described the book as being “too didactic to be artistic.” Even so, Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film adaptation of the American version of the book became an instant classic, as did the work that had inspired it. Wikipedia informs us that, in 2005, […]

Winter is… Here?

April 2, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

The final season of Game of Thrones, the HBO series based on the 1991 novel of the same name by George R. Martin, begins April 14th. The first promo video for the season can be seen below. Haven’t followed the series but want to see what all the fuss is about? VOX today offers an essential episodes guide “if you want to understand the plot.” Looking for a simple “essential episodes” guide to Game of […]

Stephen King: Pet Cemetery Was too Scary to Publish

March 29, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

Stephen King figured that his 1983 novel Pet Cemetery (shown at right) was too scary to publish. On the eve of the debut of the second film based on the book, the author tells EW why. In an interview published today, King tells of going deeply into the book again recently. “I was curious about it. You know, I hadn’t been near it in 20, 25 years. So I listened to it, and thought, “My […]

S.E. Hinton’s Outsiders to the Stage

March 28, 2019 admin 0

The Outsiders the musical, a play based in part on the seminal 1967 YA novel by S.E. Hinton, will open in Chicago as part of the Goodman Theatre’s 2019-20 season. It will run at the Goodman from June 20-August 2, 2020. Wikipedia describes the original book as “a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the […]

One Hundred Years of Solitude Heads to Spanish Netflix

March 10, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

One can’t help but wonder what Gabriel García Márquez would be thinking about the fact that his classic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, will go into production as a Spanish-language series. García Márquez, who died in 2014 at the age of 87, had always declined offers when Hollywood came knocking.   The series will be filmed in the author’s native Colombia and his sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo García Barcha will act as executive […]

Stephen King’s Mile 81 Will Be Film

February 9, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

Stephen King’s novella Mile 81 (Simon & Schuster) heralded in the arrival (n full) of the e-book era back when it was first (electronically) published in 2011. Mile 81 wasn’t excerpted from something else. It wasn’t a reprint. It was an ebook, and the only way you could get it was to download it. Suddenly, we know: the ebook had gone from flash in the dark to (almost) mainstream. Fast Forward eight years and it’s […]

Behind Her Eyes Set for Netflix

January 25, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

Netflix has made a deal for Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 psychological thriller, Behind Her Eyes. From Deadline Hollywood: The UK-based production company is adapting the novel, which was published by Harper Collins in 2017, as a series for the SVOD service in association with its backer Sony Pictures Television. I hear Netflix has handed Left Bank six episodes with The Punisher and Hannibal writer Steve Lightfoot writing, alongside Angela LaManna, his colleague on The Punisher. Lightfoot […]

After Bird Box

January 22, 2019 Ali Karim 1

I enjoyed the Netflix Film Bird Box, even though the end was a little too neat for my liking. I discovered Bird Box was adapted from a debut novel by a young writer named Josh Malerman, released in 2004. It had missed my radar when it came out. It must have gotten lost in the slipstream of my life, lost amongst the activity at the time. As it turns out, Malerman is also an accomplished singer/songrwriter […]

2019’s “Global Idiocy” Makes Perfect Timing for “Good Omens”

January 8, 2019 admin 0

Into the toxic fray that is early 2019 global politics, it’s somehow reassuring to know that, on the entertainment front at least, help is on the way. Good Omens, the 1990 collaboration between Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett will debut on Amazon Prime Video then run on BBC2. Gaiman has said that the “‘global idiocy’ of 2019 perfect for Armageddon drama Apocalyptic comedy drama starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant,” according to iNews. […]

Keira Knightley Brings Colette to Life on the Big Screen

December 7, 2018 admin 0

  “No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.”  — Colette Keira Knightley finds herself in a very different kind of period piece in Colette, directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice, The Last of Robin Hood) and based on the life of the French writer Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, better known, of course, as Colette. From Deadline, where Knightly also talks about how she came to take the title role: After earning two Oscar […]