Books2Movies Club discussion

Any news for this section?

Shawna (thank you!) mentioned in the other thread that Oryx and Crake and Wolf Hall are already under way.

I'll mention just some that I am currently aware of (the most of them do not have appropriate bookcovers yet):

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Carol or The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The DUFF by Kody Keplinger
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (with Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts)
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (with Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (two adaptations are in the production)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard)
The Martian by Andy Weir
Paper Towns by John Green
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (with Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (this one will be released already in January)
Truth and Duty by Mary Mapes
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Cool Buzzfeed article that added a couple more movies / books to read to the list. Some of them actually are already out in other parts of the world, but in USA aren't, so here are they:

Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
Dead Stars by Bruce Wagner (this one is complicated though, it was written after the screenplay for Maps to the Stars)
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney

Some other movies and TV shows I am eager to see, and they are based on (or inspired by) books:

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
The Grantchester Mysteries by James Runcie (the first season is already out)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (Everest)
The Revenant by Michael Punke
Zoo by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

I saw a clip this morning from A Walk In the Woods, along with an interview with Robert Redford. It looks great.

These are a few I've heard of:

Cell by Stephen King
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, the film is entitled Home

(There were more listed on the Nook Audiobooks app in the "At the Movies" section, some of which were already mentioned in earlier posts.)

For anyone interested, Disney is also making yet another film adaptation of Cinderella.

Marcy wrote: "I saw a clip this morning from A Walk In the Woods, along with an interview with Robert Redford. It looks great."

I heard a lot about Bill Bryson, and with Redford and the nature doing its part, I am sure movie will be very interesting!

Trisa wrote: "These are a few I've heard of.."

Awesome, thanks Trisa!

About Cinderella, I am curious how it'll look like. Kenneth Brannagh directing, and Robb Stark playing Prince Charming :) Really curious :)

Trisa wrote: "The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, the film is entitled Home "

I love Adam Rex, and enjoyed this book. The only disappointment I have is that in the book, the main character (alien) names himself J. Lo, but that didn't translate to the movie :)

One adaptation is almost done according to this IndieWire article (sorry if I am a bit late to the party):
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

and the second is still in development, but hopefully will be realized in 2016:
It by Stephen King

Related to that above, another IndieWire article mentions a couple of other potential adaptations:
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
The Alienist by Caleb Carr

I just read The Dressmaker which has apparently been made into a film starring Kate Winslet. It was a pretty interesting story about personalities and prejudices in a small Australian town in the 1950s.

I just read rooms which comes out in October. I thought this was a very interesting book. I'm going to 5th wave which comes out in January. Has anyone read Dark places? Was it good?