June 2nd, 2013
Books to Movies & TV — In Production
Below are listings of movies that are currently being filmed. Following that is a list of films that are completed, but have no release date (Post-Production). Both lists are in order by the status information.
For projects in development, see In Development
For projects scheduled for release, see Upcoming — with Tie-ins
Currently Filming or Scheduled to Film
Movie Title: American Sniper
Director: Stephen Spielberg
Starring: Bradley Cooper
Status: Production to begin in early 2014, (The Hollywood Reporter, 5/2/13)
Based on: American Sniper, Chris Kyle, (HarperCollins/Morrow, 2012)
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Movie Title: Good People
Director: Henrik Genz
Starring: James Franco, Kate Hudson and Omar Sy
Status: Production beginning, (Deadline, 4/22/13)
Based on: Good People by Marcus Sakey, (Penguin/Dutton, 2008)
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Movie Title: Before I Go To Sleep
Director: Rowan Joffe
Starring: Mark Strong, Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth
Status: Filming in London (London Evening Standard, 4/18/13)
Based on: Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson (Harper, 2011)
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Movie title: This Is Where I Leave You
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, Tina Fey
Status: May or June, 2013 start date (The Hollywood Reporte, 2/8/13); Adam Driver, Connie Britton added to cast that includes Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, and Jason Bateman, (Entertainment Weekly, 4/11/13)
Based on: Novel by Jonathan Tropper
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Movie Title: Gods Behaving Badly
Director: Marc Turtletaub
Starring:
Christopher Walken …Zeus
Alicia Silverstone and Ebon Moss-Bachrach — Kate and Neil, mortals who share the house with the Olympians
Sharon Stone — Aphrodite, a phone-sex operator
Oliver Platt – Apollo, a TV psychic
Edie Falco — Artemis, a dog-walker
Nelsan Ellis — Dionysus, a night-club owner
Phylicia Rashad — Demeter
John Turturro — Hades
Rosie Perez — Persephone
Status: Filming in NYC (Mail Online, 3/15/13)
Based on: Novel by Marie Phillips, Hachette/Little Brown, 2007
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Movie Title: Wish You Well
Status:Filming complete (WSLS, 3/29/13)
Director: Darnell Martin
Cast: Josh Lucas, Mackenzie Foy and Ellen Burstyn
Official Web Site: WishYouWellTheMovie.com
Based on: David Baldacci’s novel Wish You Well, (Hachette/Grand Central, 2000)
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Movie Title: Child 44
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Status: Gary Oldman joins Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises). Noomi Rapace is in talks to star (The Hollywood Reporter, 3/21/13)
Starring: Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace
Based on: Novel by Tom Rob Smith
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Movie Title: The Invisible Woman
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes … Charles Dickens
Felicity Jones…Nelly Ternan
Kristin Scott Thomas…Ternan’s Mother
Status: Filming to be shown at Cannes (Vancouver Sun, 3/19/13)
Based on: Claire Tomalin’s The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, (RH/Knopf, 1991)
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Series Title: Wolf Hall, BBC Two series
Status: Mark Rylance to star (The Hollywood Reporter, 3/8/13)
Based on: Wolf Hall and the sequel Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
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Series Title: Orange is the New Black; Netflix original series, 13 episodes
Produced by: Jenji Kohan (Weeds)
Starring: Taylor Schilling and Jason Biggs
Status: Filming; to premiere this summer (New York Newsday, 3/7/13)
Based on: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman (RH/Spiegel & Grau, 2010)
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Movie Title: Love, Rosie
Director: Christian Ditter
Stars:Lily Collins and Sam Claflin
Status: To begin shooting in May, 2013 (The Hollywood Reporter, 2/4/13)
Based on: Cecelia Ahern’s novel Where Rainbows End
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Movie Title: Black Mass
Director: Barry Levinson
Status: Johnny Depp to star; to begin shooting May, 2013 (The Hollywood Reporter, 2/2/13)
Based on: Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerland O’Neil
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Movie title: Parkland
Director: Peter Landesman
Starring: Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder; Zac Efron as Jim Carrico
Status: Production began in Austin, Texas in January, 2013; may be released in Nov. 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy assassination (Deadline, 1/25/13)
Based on: Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
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Movie Title: Genius
Director: Michael Grandage
Starring: Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender (The Telegraph, 11/6/12)
Based on: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
Production planned to begin in 2014
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TV Series — A Casual Vacancy, BBC One (BBC Press Release, 4/12/12)
Based on: J.K. Rowling’s A Casual Vacancy
To air in the UK in 2014.
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TV Series – Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, BBC One
Director: Toby Haynes
Based on: Susanna Clarke’s novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
To air in the UK in 2013.
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Movie Title: Bailout
Studio: Sony
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Jack Black
Status: Scheduled to begin filming in January, 2012 (The Playlist, 11/3/11)
Based on: The Financial Lives of the Poets, by Jess Walter (Harper, 2009)
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Post-Production, No Release Date
Movie Title: How I Live Now
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Saoirse Ronan
Status: In interviews, Ronan says movie to be released in 2013 (Collider, 3/28/13)
Based on: Novel by Meg Rosoff
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Movie Title: Filth
Director: Jon S. Baird
Starring:
James McAvoy …Bruce Robertson
Jamie Bell …Ray Lennox
Imogen Poots …Amanda Drummond
Tony Curran …Dougie Gillman
Rupert Friend …Peter Inglis
Status: Filming wrapped; McAvoy talks about experience to Irish Press (Independent, 3/17/13)
Based on: Novel by Irvine Welsh
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Movie Title: Philomena
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
Status: Production wrapped (Cinesnatch, 2/28/13)
Based on: The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, Martin Sixsmith (Macmillan, UK)
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Movie Title: A Most Wanted Man
Director: Anton Corbijn
Status: completed (“First Look,” Hollywood Reporter, 2/26/13)
Based on: Novel by John le Carre
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Movie Title: Devil’s Knot
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Alessandro Nivola
Status: Filming wrapped, (Deadline, 3/12/13); will not be shown at Cannes Film Festival (The Hollywood Reporter, 4/2/13)
Based on: Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
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Movie Title: Odd Thomas
Director: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Anton Yelchin as Odd Thomas
Status: Originally scheduled for release on April 3, 2013. Producers are suing over marketing and distribution budgets, so release date is indefinitely postponed. (Hollywood Reporter, 1/28/13)
Based on: Book by Dean Koontz
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Movie Title: Syrup
Director: Aram Rappaport
Starring: Shiloh Fernandez, Amber Heard, Brittany Snow
Status: Teaser released online; no release date (CinemaBlend, 9/24/12)
Based on: Syrup by Maxx Barry (Penguin/Viking, 1999)
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Movie Title: The Railway Man
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman
Status: In running for Cannes Film Festival (Gulf Times, 3/27/13)
Based on: The Railway Man: A POW’s Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness by Eric Lomax, W.W. Norton, 1995.
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Movie Title: The Hypnotist — Swedish language
Director: Lars Hallström
Starring: Starring Mikael Persbrandt (In A Better World, The Hobbit) and Lena Olin (The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Chocolat)
Status: Opens in Sweden on 9/28/12; To be shown at the Miami Film Festival, May, 2013; no general release date yet
Based on: Novel by Lars Kepler (Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril)
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Movie Title: Dorothy of Oz
Director: Dan St. Pierre
Starring:
Kelsey Grammer … Tin Man (voice)
Lea Michele … Dorothy (voice)
Patrick Stewart … Tugg (voice)
Hugh Dancy … Marshall Mallow (voice)
Dan Aykroyd … Scarecrow (voice)
Oliver Platt … Wiser the Owl (voice)
James Belushi … Lion (voice)
Martin Short … The Jester (voice)
Megan Hilty … China Princess (voice)
Betsy Roth … Glinda (voice)
Michael Krawic … Uncle Henry (voice)
Tacey Adams … Aunt Em (voice)
Status: Scheduled for Aug 3, 2012, then moved to 2013
Based on: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Roger S. Baum (great-grandson of Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz)
Official Web Site: DorothyOfOz.com
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Movie Title: Private Peaceful
Director: Pat O’Connor
Starring: Jack O’Connell, Alexandra Roach, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour
Status: Post-Production; first look here; to be released some time in 2012
Based on: Book by Michael Morpurgo
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Movie Title: Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Robert J. Goodwin and Krystof Hádek
Status: May be shown at Cannes Film Festival (The Hollywood Reporter, 4/2/13); one of The Playlist’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2012;
Based on: Under the Skin, Michel Faber
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Director: D.J. Caruso
Starring: Chandler Canterbury and Annalise Basso in the lead roles of two kids who run away together after a summer camp incident, and Val Kilmer, Radha Mitchell and Kate Maberly (Variety, 10/5/11).
Status: Post-Production
Based on: YA novel by Brock Cole
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Movie Title: Austenland
Director: Jerusha Hess
Starring:
Keri Russell … Jane Hayes
JJ Feild … Mr. Henry Nobley
Status:Sony picked it up distribution rights after a showing at the Sundance Film Festival They expect to release it this summer.
Based on: Austenland by Shannon Hale
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Movie Title: Big Sur
Director: Michael Polish
Starring:
Kate Bosworth … Billie
Stana Katic … Lenora
Josh Lucas … Neal Cassady
Radha Mitchell … Carolyn Cassady
Status: Shown at Sundance Film Festival, Jan 2013
Based on: Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
