Title: Peony in Love
Studio: Fox
Producer: Ridley Scott

Based on: Peony in Love by Lisa See
Status: Variety (2/21) reports that screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson has been hired to adapt
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Title: The Woman in the Fifth
Status: Ethan Hawke announced to star opposite Kristin Scott Thomas
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Based on: The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy

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Project: HBO series
Title: I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Based on: I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, memoir by Pamela des Barres

Status: Announced that Deschanel will star in pilot, (Deadline Hollywood, 2/2/10); in script stage (ReelLoop, 1/28/10)
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Title: HBO series, Mind
Starring: Charlize Theron
Based on: Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshakerk, about Douglas’ experiences as an FBI investigator and the unique profiling techniques he developed.
Announced: 1/28/10 (AOL.Television)

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Movie Title: The Lost City of Z
Status: Brad Pitt signed to star; James Gray as director
Based on: The Lost City of Z by David Grann

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Movie Title: The Passage
Status: Rights acquired  (Variety,  7/19/07); Book to be pubbed 6/6/10 (WSJ, 1/15/10)
Based on: The Passage by Justin Cronin

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Movie Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Status: Sony in discussions to option English-language rights (the Swedish film has already been made, to be released in US March ‘10); Scott Rudin producing (The Hollywood Reporter), 12/15/09)
Based on: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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Movie Title: The Help
Status: Screenplay being fast-tracked; Tate Taylor signed as director (Variety, 12/15/09)
Based on: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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Movie Title: Moneyball
Status: Soderbergh replaced by Bennett Miller as director; Brad Pitt to star (Variety, 12/4/09)
Based on: Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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Movie Title: Mortal Instruments
Status: Jessica Postigo signed to write (Variety, 10/29/09)
Based on: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

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Movie Title: Septimus Heap: Magyk
Status: David Frankel signed as director (Hollywood Reporter, 7/14/09)
Based on: Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage

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Movie Title: Beautiful Creatures
Status: Rights optioned (Variety, 11/30/09)
Based on: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown BYR 12/1/09)

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Movie Title: Shiver
Status: Rights optioned (Variety, 9/29/09)
Based on: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

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Movie Title: Water for Elephants

Status: “recently scripted” according to Variety (11/30/09)
Based on: Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

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Movie Title: Neuromancer. 2011

Director: Joseph Kahn

Cast: Liv Tyler (rumored)

Based on: Neuromancer by William Gibson

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Movie Title: Wicked
Studio: Dreamworks (Hollywood Reporter, 10/22/09)
Based on: first two books in the Wicked series; Witch and Curse by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié
Release Date: 2012

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Movie Title: The Host
Director: Andrew Niccol (Variety, 9/22/09)
Based on: The Host by Stephenie Meyer

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Movie Title: Freaky Deaky, 2010

Director: Charles Matthau

Status: Production set to begin in January ‘10 (Hollywood Reporter, 7/17/09)

Based on: Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard

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Movie Title: Thirteenth Hour
Status: Screenwriters signed (Variety, 3/3/09)
Based on: 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch

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Movie title: Dracula: The Un-Dead, 2010

Director: Ernest Dickerson, (Variety, 5/14/07)

Status: Variety article said production would begin in Easter Europe late in 2007)

Based on: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker

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Movie Title: The Adventurer’s Handbook, 2010

Director: Akiva Schaffer

Based on: by Mick Conefrey

Cast: Jason Segel, Johan Hill, Jason Schwartzman

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Movie Title: Wuthering Heights, 2010

Director: Peter Webber

Cast: Ed Westwick (Heathcliff), Gemma Arterton (Catherine Earnshaw)

Based on: Wuthering Heighst by Emily Bronte

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TV Series Title: Sellevision

Based on:  Sellevision, Augusten Burroughs

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Movie Title: Cowboys & Aliens

Director: Jon Favreau

Likely release date: 2011 summer

Based on: comic book series, Cowboys & Aliens

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Movie Title: Pirate Latitudes (Variety, 8/27/09)

Studio: DreamWorks

Director: Steven Spielberg to produce and potentially direct (Variety, 8/27/09)

Based on: Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton, (HarperCollins, 2009)

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Movie Title: The Last Summer of You and Me (Variety, 8/24/09)

Studio: Warner Bros.

Director: Julie Anne Robinson (currently working on The Last Song, based on the Nicholas Sparks title and starring Miley Cyrus)

Based on: The Last Summer (of You and Me), Ann Brashares, (Riverhead Books, 2007)

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Movie Title: Netherland (Telegraph, 8/23/09)

Producers:  Harpo Films, Sam Mendes

Based on: Netherland, Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon, 2008)

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Movie Title: Shining City, 2009

Production Company:  De Line Pictures and Warner (Hollywood Reporter, 8/26/09)

Director: Jason Winer

Based on: Shining City, Seth Greenland (Bloomsbury, 2008)

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Movie Title: The Diary of Anne Frank (exact title not yet released) — Variety, 8/11/09

Producers: David Mamet and Andrew Braunsberg

Studio: Disney

Based on: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank and the play based on the book by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich

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Movie Title: Time of My Life

Studio: Weinstein

Status: Nicole Eastman adapting (Variety), 8/9/09)

Based on: Time of My Life, time-travel drama by Allison Winn Scotch (Shaye Areheart/Crown, 2008)

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Movie Title: The Mad Ones

Studio: Weinstein

Based on:  Tom Folsom’s The Mad Ones, about mobster Joey Gallo in the early ’60’s

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Movie Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Status: Variety reported (10/28/08) that it was being adapted for Sony

Based on: Novel of the same title by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, 2007)

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Movie Title: Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Status: Variety reported (10/28/08) that the Coen brothers are  in the process of adapting it

Based on: Novel of the same title by Michael Chabon

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Movie Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of  Oscar Wao

Status: Variety reported (10/28/08) that it was being adapted for Miramax

Based on: Novel of the same title by Junot Diaz

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Movie Title: The Duke of Deception

Producer: Scott Rudin

Status: In a profile of Rudin, Variety (10/28/08)  noted “Maybe [his] passion project will finally get made.”

Based on: memoir of same title by Geoffrey Wolfe (Random House, 1979)

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Movie Title: Nice

Starring: Reese Witherspoon producing mid-April, 2009, with an eye to starring

Studio: Fox Searchlight

Based on: Nice, Jen Sacks (St. Martins, 1998)

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Movie Title: Good People, 2010

Status: Tobey Maguire’s production company acquired the novel in early 2009
Based on: Good People, Marcus Sakey, (Dutton, 2008)

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Movie Title: The Hunger Games, 2011
Based on:  The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

Status: Lionsgate bought rights to the series, March ‘09

Status: Collins to write screenplay after she finishes final installment of the trilogy (to be pubbed in fall of 2010) — Publishers Weekly, 8/28/09

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Movie Title: Where’s Waldo?, 2010

Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment

Based on: Where’s Waldo?, Martin Handford, (Candlewick)

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Movie Title: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, 2010

Status: Announced

Based on: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, Susanna Clarke

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Movie Title:  Discipline, 2010

Producing: David Permut and Steve Lee Jones

Based on: Paco Ahlgren’s debut sci-fi adventure novel (Greenleaf Book Group, 2007)

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Movie Title: Dune, 2010

Director: Peter Berg

Status: Announced; scripting

Based on: Dune,  Frank Herbert

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Movie Title: Three Little Words, 2011

Director: Jamed Mangold

Based on: memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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Movie Title: Kong: King of Skull Island, 2011

Based on: Kong: King of Skull Island, Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland, (Dark Horse, 2009)

Studio: Sony Pictures (Variety)

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Movie Title: The Lace Reader, 2010 — “pre-production”

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Movie Title: Beautiful Boy/Tweak Project, 2010

Studio:  Paramount Pictures (Variety)

Based on:

• Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, David Sheff, (Houghton Mifflin, Feb. 2)

• Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff’, (Ginee Seo Books/S&S, Feb. 2008)

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Movie Title: Edgar Sawtelle, 2011

Studio: Universal Pictures (Variety)

Producers: Playtone’s Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman with Harpo Films partners Oprah Winfrey and Kate Forte

Status: Screenwriter William Broyles hired for adaptation (MTV Movies Blog, 2/2/10); 2011 release planned.

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Movie Title: The Spellman Files, 2011

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld (Variety, 4/1/09)

Studio: Paramount

Based on: The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz

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Movie title: Untitled House of Night Project, 2011

Optioned (Variety)

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Movie title: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, 2012

Twentieth Century Fox bought rights, (Variety)

Based on: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard and Florence Atwater

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Movie title: The Great Gatsby

Rights acquired by Buz Lehrman (Variety)

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Movie title: The Witchblade, 2010

Director: Michael Rymer

Status: Pre-production

Witchblade, comic by Marc Silvestri, (Top Cow)

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Movie Title: When the Wind Blows, 2010

Status: Warner acquired rights to James Patterson’s YA titles, When the Wind Blows and Maximum Ride in 2005 (Variety, 5/25/05)

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Movie Title: Playing for Pizza, 2010

Status: In development

Based on: Playing for Pizza, John Grisham

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Movie Title: The Historian, 2010

Status: In development

Based on: The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown; 2005)

Variety, 5/15/05

Status: Variety indicated it was still in development, 3/4/09

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Movie Title: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, 2011

Status:  In development

Based on: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, (Dial Press, 2008)

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Movie Title: Escape, 2010

Status: In development

Starring: Katherine Heigl (Variety)

Based on: Carolyn Jessop’s best-selling book, The Escape, about her life within the Fundamentalist LDS Church (Broadway, 2007).

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Movie Title: Stolen Innocence, 2010

Status:  In Development

Based on: Stolen Innocence, Elissa Wall, the witness in the case against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs (Morrow, 2008).

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Movie Title: Beat the Reaper, 2010

Status: In development

Starring: Leonardo di Caprio, (Variety)

Based on: Josh Bazell’s novel Beat the Reaper, (Little, Brown, 2009)

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Movie Title: The Pale Horseman, 2010

Director: Kevin Grevioux (Variety)

Based on: The Pale Horsemen

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Movie Title: The Interpretation of Murder, 2010

Director:  Alex Holmes (Variety)

Studio: Warner Bros

Based on:  The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld, (Holt, 2006)

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Movie Title: The Secret , 2010

Studio: Universal Pictures (Variety)

Based on: Mike Richardson’s graphic novel, The Secret

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Movie Title: The Graveyard Book, 2011

Live-action feature

Status: In development

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Movie Title: Angelology, 2010

Status: in development

Studio: Columbia

Based on: Angelology, Danielle Trussoni, (Viking, March 9, 2010)

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Movie title: This Is Where I Leave You (2011)

Studio: Warner Bros.

Director: Greg Berlanti (Variety)

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Movie Title: Brave New World, 2011

Status: In development

Director: Ridley Scott (Hollywood Reporter)

Studio: Universal

Based on: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

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Movie Title: Escape from the Deep, 2010

Director: Duncan Jones

Based on: Escape from the Deep by Alex Kershaw

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Movie Title: The Secret Life of Houdini, 2010

Director: Jeff Nathanson

Based on: The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.

Studio: Summit Entertainment

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Movie Title: The Silver Linings Playbook, 2010

Studio: Weinstein Co.

Director: David O. Russell (Variety)

Based on: The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick (FSG; Sep 2, 2008)

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Movie Title: The Lincoln Lawyer, 2010

Starring: Matthew McConaughey (Variety)

Based on: The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly (2005)

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Movie Title: The Chancellor Manuscript, 2011

Status: Announced

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio

Based on: The Chancellor Manuscript, Robert Ludlum

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Movie Title: The Undomestic Goddess, 2011

Status: In Development

Based on: The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella, (Dial, 2005)

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Movie Title: Outlander, 2011

Status: In development

Diana Gabaldon, Outlander Series

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Movie Title:  Savvy, 2011

Status: In development

Based on: YA title by Ingrid Law, Savvy, (Dial)

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Movie Title: Untitled Kay Scarpetta Project, 2011

Status: Announced

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Movie Title: If I Stay, 2011

Status: In development

Catherine Hardwicke
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Movie Title: The Night Manager

Studio: Paramount (Variety)

Based on: The Night Manager, John Le Carre (1993)

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Movie Title: The Immortality Factor

Producers: Ben Bova’s B-Four Productions and Red Giant Media

Based on: The Immortality Factor, Ben Bova (Tor. 4/09)  –  the uncut version of Bova’s 1996 thriller Brothers

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Movie Title: Beginner’s Greek, 2012

Studio: Warner Bros.

Based on: Beginner’s Greek, James Collins (Little, Brown; 2009)

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Movie Title: Crazy for the Storm, 2012

Studio:  Warner Bros. (Variety)

Based on: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad (Ecco, 6/09)

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Movie Title: Dinotrux, 2012

Studio: DreamWorks Animation

Based on: Dinotrux, Chris Gall (Little Brown Young Readers, 6/09)

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Movie Title: Florence of Arabia, 2012

Status: Charlize Theron bought rights (Variety)

Based on: Florence of Arabia, Christopher Buckley (Random House, 2004)

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Movie Title: The Parsifal Mosaic, 2010

Director: Ron Howard (Variety, 7/29/09)

Studio: Universal

Based on: The Parsifal Mosaic, Robert Ludlum (Random House, 1982)

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Movie Title: Little Bee (Variety)

Production Company: BBC Films

Producer: Nicole Kidman

Star: Nicole Kidman

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Movie Title: Agincourt, 2012

Status: in development

Studio: Independent Films

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Movie Title: The Life of Pi (not on IMDB)

Based on: The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Status: 2/17/09 Variety reports that Ang Lee is considering directing

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LOST IN PRODUCTION (?)

Movie Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, 2009

Based on: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Status: Scott Rudin bought the rights to the novel before its publication in 2000, but it’s gone nowhere since

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Movie Title: Friday Night Knitting Club, 2010

Status: It was supposed to release in June 6, 2008, starring Julie Roberts, but it never materialized. IMDb now lists it for 2010.

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Movie Title: The Corrections, 2011

Status: According to WWD (Feb, 2008)

Producer Scott Rudin snapped up the film rights in 2001 and hired director Stephen Daldry and playwright David Hare, who together had successfully adapted The Hours. But Daldry was too busy, and it was announced in 2005 that director Robert Zemeckis would be taking over, though he too has been preoccupied.

According to a profile of Rudin in Variety (10/28/08), Rudin insists that someday, “Paramount will greenlight” the project with Daldry.

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Movie Title: Geek Love

Status: According to WWD (Feb, 2008):

Warner Bros. owns the film rights, and Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton have long been rumored to be involved. Now the Matrix-creating Wachowski siblings are producing, but they are currently focused on Speed Racer, [which came out May, 08]

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Movie Title: Confederacy of Dunces

Status: According to WWD (Feb, 2008):

Dunces has become a poster child for the difficult-to-adapt book. Before it was published, Scott Kramer, then a junior executive at 20th Century Fox, optioned the book, and there have been countless attempts to bring it to screen, including two by director Harold Ramis. Steven Soderbergh wrote a screenplay with Kramer, but the effort was derailed by a lawsuit with Paramount, which had bought the rights for $1 million. In 2001 Miramax paid $1.5 million for the rights, and for a while the movie seemed close to production, with indie auteur David Gordon Green directing the Soderbergh-Kramer script, and Will Ferrell as Reilly. But Miramax pulled the funding, and the project returned to Paramount.

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Movie Title: Secret History

Status: According to WWD (Feb, 2008):

Director Alan J. Pakula (All the President’s Men, Sophie’s Choice) optioned the book before it was published, enlisting literary couple Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne to write the screenplay. Through the years, other writers took a crack at the adaptation, and in 2001 Gwyneth Paltrow signed on to produce, with her brother Jake set to direct. But the literary rights have since reverted back to Tartt.

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Movie Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Status: According to WWD (Feb, 2008):

New Line paid a staggering $2 million to option the book shortly after it was published, but the path from tome to screen seemed problematic from the beginning. Initially, there was a dispute between Eggers and his then agent, who sued him, claiming Eggers hadn’t paid the commission on the deal. Later, Nick Hornby and D.V. DeVincentis started work on a screenplay, but it never went into production, and New Line eventually gave up on the project. It languished for years before the rights reverted back to Eggers.