Books to Movies — In Production

Below are listings of movies that are currently being filmed, movies that have directors and stars attached, and movies for which filming is complete, but no release date has been scheduled yet.

Currently Filming or Scheduled to Film

Movie title: Drive

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Starring:  Ryan Gosling, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, Carey Mulligan

Status: To go in to production Fall, 2010 (Deadline, 8/26/10)

Based on: Drive, James Sallis

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HBO Pilot:  All Signs of Death

Director: Alan Ball

Cast:

Kelsey Ford … Dot
Ben Whishaw
Max Martini … Mercer (rumored)
Dale Dickey … Thea
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali … Gary

Status:  Filming to begin end of Aug, 2010 (Deadline, 8/12/10)

Based on: The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: A Novel by Charlie Huston

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Movie title: Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Director: Mark Waters

Cast:

Jim Carrey…Mr. Popper

Status: Production to begin in Oct. in NYV (Hollywood Reporter, 8/20/10)

Based on: Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard and Florence Atwater, LBYR, 1938

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Movie Title: On the Road, 2011
Director: Walter Salles

Producer: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast:

Kristen Stewart … Marylou
Amy Adams … Jane
Viggo Mortensen … Old Bull Lee
Kirsten Dunst … Camille
Steve Buscemi
Garrett Hedlund … Dean Moriarty

Status: Filming began 8/4/10 in Mexico; Adams, Mortensen added to cast (Deadline); MTV’s Spotted column shows Kirsten Stewart in costume as Mary Lou (8/16/10)

Based on: On the Road, Jack Kerouac

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Movie Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (English language version)

Director: David Fincher

Cast:

Daniel Craig … Mikael Blomkvist
Robin Wright … Erika Berger
Stellan Skarsgård … Martin Vanger
Rooney Mara … Lisbeth Salander

Based on: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Status: After a much-publicized search, relative unknown Rooney Mara won the role of Lisbeth Salander (See Access Hollywood summary, 8/17/10)

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Movie Title: The Help
Director: Tate Taylor

Starring:

Emma Stone … Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan
Bryce Dallas Howard … Hilly Holbrook
Chris Lowell … Stuart Whitworth (in negotiations)
Viola Davis … Aibileen
Octavia Spencer … Minny
Allison Janney … Charlotte Phelan
Jessica Chastain … Celia Foote

Status: Filming under way in Greenwood, Mississippi; Charlotte Phelan added to cast; to open in 2011 (Entertainment Weekly, 7/13/10)

Based on: The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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Movie Title: Moneyball, 2011

Status: Currently shooting (pictures of a newly clean-shaven Brad Pitt show him on location at the Los Angeles Times Building and the UK’s Independent reports it is “finally a go” — 7/14/10; tabloids reporting on Pitt, Jolie & family staying at Hotel Claremont Hotel in Berkeley while he is filming, mid-Aug, 2010)

Director: Bennett Miller

Cast:

Brad Pitt … Billy Beane
Jonah Hill … Paul De Podesta
Robin Wright
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Stephen Bishop … David Justice

Based on: Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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Movie Title: Horrid Henry

Director: Nick Moore (Wild Child)

Status: 3-D; Filming will take place October and November (Deadline, 6/24/10)
Based on: Horrid Henry series by Francesca Simon

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Movie Title: On Chesil Beach

Director: Sam Mendes

Status: Carey Mulligan signed to star as Florence Ponting; to begin shooting in Sept, 2010 (Daily Mail, 7/9/10)

Based on: On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan

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Movie Title: Winnie, 2011
Director: Darrell Roodt

Starring: According to The Hollywood Reporter, (6/24/10) Terrence Howard and Jennifer Hudson will play Nelson and Winnie Mandela.

Status:
Shooting began South Africa in June (The Hollywood Reporter, 6/24/10)

Based on: Winnie Mandela: A Life, Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob

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Movie Title: One Day, 2011
Director: Lone Scherfig

Status: Shooting in London; Focus Films site lists release date as is 3rd quarter, 2011

Cast:

Anne Hathaway … Emma
Jim Sturgess … Dexter
Romola Garai

Based on: One Day, David Nicholls, Vintage, 6/15/10

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Movie Title: This Dark World, 2011

Status: Filming (Dark Horizons, 6/4/10)

Director: Vera Farmiga

Cast:

Vera Farmiga …Corinne
John Hawkes … CW
Dagmara Dominczyk … Annika
Donna Murphy … Kathleen
Joshua Leonard … Ethan

Based on: Carolyn Briggs’ memoir This Dark World

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Movie Title: The Moth Diaries, 2010

Status: Filming in Montreal (Tracking Shot, 8/1/10)

Director: Mary Harron

Cast:

Scott Speedman, Cody Kennedy, Lily Cole

Based on: 2002 debut vampire-themed YA novel by Rachel Klein

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Movie Title: Something Borrowed

Status: Filming  wrapped, Early Summer, 2010 (PopSugar)

Director: Luke Greenfield

Starring: Kate Hudson, Colin Farrell, John Krasinski, Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin Egglesfield

Based On: Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin

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Movie Title: Wuthering Heights, 2010

Director: Andrea Arnold (replacing Peter Webber)

Cast: Kaya Scodelario (Catherine Earnshaw)

Status: Begins shooting, Fall ‘10 (Deadline, 8/20/10)

Based on: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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Title: The Woman in the Fifth, 2011

Status: Ethan Hawke announced to star opposite Kristin Scott Thomas

Variety (3/21/10) announced that shooting begins in Paris in March, 2010.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Based on: The Woman in the Fifth by Douglas Kennedy

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Movie Title: East Fifth Bliss, 2010
Director: Michael Knowles

Starring: Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu

Status:  Michael C. Hall back at work after treatment for prostate cancer (April, 2010); still from film published (Collider.com, 8/2/10)

Based on: East Fifth Bliss, Douglas Light

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Movie Title: Salvation Boulevard, 2011
Director: George Ratliff

Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Pierce Brosnan, Isabelle Fuhrman, Greg Kinnear, Ed Harris

Status: Filming in Michigan (DarkHorizons, 4/30/10)

Based on: Salvation Boulevard, Larry Beinhart

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Movie Title: The Killer Elite, 2011
Director: Gary McKendry

Starring: Robert De Niro, Jason Statham, Yvonne Strahovski, Clive Owen

Status: Filming

Based on: The Feather Men, Ranulph Fienne

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Movie Title: Live With It
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast

Bryce Dallas Howard … Rachel
Anna Kendrick … Katie
Joseph Gordon-Levitt … Adam
Seth Rogen … Seth

Production Company: Mandate Pictures

Status: Filming began in Vancouver (Popsugar, 4/8/10)

Based on: I’m With Cancer, novel by Will Reiser
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Movie Title: We Need to Talk about Kevin
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring:

John C. Reilly … Franklin
Tilda Swinton … Eva
Ezra Miller … Kevin

Status: Tilda Swinton, in an interview about the movie I am Love, said principal photography on Kevin is finished. More will be shot over the summer, with editing this winter.

Based on: We Need to Talk about Kevin, novel by Lionel Shriver

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Movie Title: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 2012

Director: Tomas Alfredson, (Variety)

Cast:

Michael Fassbender
Ralph Fiennes
Gary Oldman … George Smiley
Colin Firth
Production company: Working Title

Filming to begin Oct, 2010
Based on: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

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Movie Title: The Wind in the Willows, 2012
Director: Ray Griggs

Status: Planning for fall, 2010 filming

Based on: The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

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Movie Title: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Director: John Schultz

Cast:

Heather Graham … Aunt Opal
Jackson Odell … Zeke

Status: Shooting to begin August, 2010 (Variety)
Based on: Children’s series by Megan McDonald

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Movie Title: Hemingway and Gellhorn — HBO

Director: Philip Kaufman

Status: Filming scheduled for 2011

Cast:

Nicole Kidman … Martha Gellhorn
Clive Owen … Ernest Hemingway

Not based on a particular book, although Gellhorn was the inspiration for Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Filming Complete, No Release Date Set

Movie Title: Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, 2010

Director: Kevin Munroe

Cast:

Brandon Routh … Dylan Dog
Peter Stormare … Gabriel
Sam Huntington … Marcus
Taye Diggs … Vargas

Status: Post production (Deadline New York. 25 August 2010)

Based On:  Tiziano Sclavi’s comic book series Dylan Dog

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Movie Title: Barney’s Version, 2010

Director: Richard J. Lewis
Cast:

Rosamund Pike … Miriam
Dustin Hoffman … Izzy
Minnie Driver … Mrs. P
Bruce Greenwood … Blair
Rachelle Lefevre … Clara
Paul Giamatti … Barney Panofsky

Status: Showing at Venice and Toronto film festivals, distribution deal in the works (Deadline, 8/18/10)

Teaser trailer says it’s coming Winter ‘10

Based On:  Mordecai Richler’s final novel, Barney’s Version

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Movie Title: The Descendants, 2010

Director: Alexander Payne (Variety, 8/12/09)

Studio: Fox Searchlight

Status: Tabloids say shooting is complete

Starring: Judy Greer, George Clooney

Based on: debut novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings (Random House, 2008); “wealthy landowner takes his two daughters on a search for his wife’s lover in the hopes of keeping his family together,”

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Movie Title: Mr. Nice, 2010

Director: Bernard Rose

Starring: Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewlis

Status: screened at SXSW May, 2010; no general release date set; may have very limited release and then go to DVD (CinemaBlend, 7/29/10)

Trailer: YouTube

Based on: Mr. Nice, Howard Marks, (Vintage Books, February 23, 2010)

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Movie title: ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, 2009

Director: Kevin Hamedani

Status: Completed

Starring: Janette Armand, Doug Fahi, Cooper Hopkins

Based on: Marvel comic by MC

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Movie Title: The Lost City of Z, 2010

Director: James Gray

Starring: Brad Pitt

Status: Filming not scheduled; Pitt filming Moneyball

Based on: The Lost City of Z, David Grann, (Doubleday, Feb, 2009)

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Movie Title: Cosmopolis, 2011

Director: David Cronenberg

Based on: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo, (Scribner, 2003)

Status: Mentioned as still being in the works in an article about Eric Bana (HollywoodNews.com, 6/30/10)

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Director and/or Stars Announced

Movie Title: The Lucky One

Director: Scott Hicks

Status: Taylor Schilling (NBC’s “Mercy”) to star opposite Zac Efron (The Wrap, 8/23/10)

Based on: The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, 2008)

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Movie Title: World War Z , 2012

Director: Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace)

Status: Brad Pitt, whose production company, Plan B Entertainment, bought the rights in 2007, will star (MTV Movies Blog, 7/21/10), planning a Summer, 2012 release

Based on: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (Crown, 2006)
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Movie Title: The American Painter Emma Dial

HBO Film

Director: Not named

Status:  Variety, 4/12/10

Based on: The American Painter Emma Dial by Samantha Peale

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Movie Title: Black Mass

Director: Jim Sheridan (My Left FootIn the Name of the Father)

Status: Originally scheduled to be in theaters 12/12/09; Looks like shooting has been delayed (Boston Globe, 8/18). 2/15/10 — The Irish Independent reports that the film is “expected to start shooting later this year.”

Based on: Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill

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Movie Title: The Adventurer’s Handbook

Studio: Universal (Variety) “seven-figure deal”

Latest Update: Jonah Hill says it’s the next movie he is shooting (MovieWeb, 4/12/10)

Director: Akiva Schaffer

Starring: Jonah Hill, Jonathan Schwartzman, Jason Segal

Based on: The Adventurer’s Handbook: Life Lessons from the World’s Great Explorers,  Mike Conefrey (Smithsonian, 2006)

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Movie Title: Dewey

Starring: Meryl Streep (Variety, 11/12/2008)

Production Company: Temple Hill

Studio: New Line

Updates: Spencer, Iowa Daily Reporter, 5/8/09; Dewey Movie on Fast Track; says it is tentatively scheduled for Christmas, 2010

Publishers Weekly, 8/4/09; Dewey Author Gets Million-Dollar Deal at Dutton; indicates doubt about movie — says Streep is “supposedly attached to star.”

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Movie Title: Night Train, 2010

Status: Pre-production

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Madsen, Nick Nolte

Studio:Independent Film

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Movie Title: The Lorax, 2012

3-D animated feature

Studio: Universal Pictures
Directors: Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio

Release Date: March 2, 2012 (Theodor Geisel’s birthday), according to Variety (7/28/09)

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Movie Title:  Marching Powder, 2010

Director: Jose Padilha (Variety, 7/28/08)

Starring: Don Cheadle

Based on: Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine and South America’s Strangest Jail , Thomas McFadden and Rusty Young (St. Martin’s, 2004)

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Movie Title: Golf in the Kingdom, 2010

Director: Susan Stretfield

Starring: David O’Hara, Malcolm McDowell, Frances Fisher, Mason Gamble

Based on: Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy (1972)