December 27th, 2011
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).
Currently Filming or Scheduled to Film
Movie Title: Great Expectations
Director: Mike Newell
Starring:
Helena Bonham Carter …Miss Havisham
Ralph Fiennes …Magwitch
Jason Flemyng …Joe Gargery
Robbie Coltrane …Mr. Jaggers
Sally Hawkins …Mrs. Joe
Holliday Grainger …Estella
Ewen Bremner …Wemmick
Jeremy Irvine …Pip
Status: Filming
Based on: Novel by Charles Dickens
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Movie Title: The Invisible Woman
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Starring:Felicity Jones…Nelly Ternan
Status: Shooting planned for some time in 2012
Based on: Claire Tomalin’s The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, (RH/Knopf, 1991)
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Movie Title: Lincoln
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt …Robert Todd Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis …Abraham Lincoln
Tommy Lee Jones …Thaddeus Stevens
James Spader
Jackie Earle Haley …Alexander Stephens
John HawkesLee Pace …
Fernando Wood
Sally Field …Mary Todd Lincoln
David Strathairn …Secretary of State William Seward
Hal Holbrook
Status: Filming (Cinemablend.com; it’s been in development so long that Liam Neeson finally got too old to play the lead and had to be replaced by Daniel Day-Lewis).
Based on: Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals– but focusing on just the last four months of Lincoln’s life.
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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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Movie Title: Anna Karenina
Director: Joe Wright (Atonement)
Status: Shooting has begun, Keira Knightly and Jude Law starring, Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, The Soloist and Hannah), directing (HitFlix, 10/4)
Based on: Novel by Leo Tolstoy
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Movie Title: Long Time Gone (title changed to Light of Mine)
Director: Sarah Siegel-Magness
Status: Sam Trammell (True Blood) has joined the cast which includes Virginia Madsen (Collider, 9/26/11); filming under way in L.A.
Based on: April Stevens novel, Angel, Angel, (Viking, 1995)
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Movie Title: I, Alex Cross
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Tyler Perry to play Cross; Matthew Fox an assassin
Status: Production is scheduled to begin in August with a release in late 2012 or early 2013 (Monsters and Critics, 8/11/11)
Based on: Novel by James Patterson
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Movie Title: Silence
Director: Martin Scorcese
Status: Scorcese has many irons in the fire, but this may be his next project (Collider, 12/5/11)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro, Gael Garcia Bernal
Based on: Novel by Shusaku Endo
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Movie Title: Freaky Deaky
Director: Charles Matthau
Status: Major casting changes, with Crispin Glover replacing William H. Macy . Matt Dillon, Craig Robinsonand Brendan Fraser all left, replaced by lesser names (Variety, 7/18/11)
Based on: Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
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Movie title: Meeting Evil
Director: Chris Fisher
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Wilson and Leslie Bibb
Status: Completed
Based on: 1992 novel by Thomas Berger
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Movie title: The Emperor’s Children
Director: Scott Cooper
Starring: Keira Knightley, Michelle Williams, Eric Bana, Richard Gere
Status: Scott Cooper replaced Noah Baumbach as director; Spring 2012 start date (The Playlist, 10/21/11)
Based on: 2006 novel by Claire Messud
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Movie Title: The Wind in the Willows
Director: Ray Griggs
Status: Ricky Gervais to voice Mole (Playlist, 1/6/11)
Based on: The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
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Post-Production
Movie Title: The Company You Keep
Director: Robert Redford
Starring:
Shia LaBeouf
Robert Redford
Susan Sarandon
Nick Nolte
Brit Marling
Stephen Root
Julie Christie
Status: Post-production (IMDB), release not scheduled
Based on: Novel by Neil Gordon (Viking, 2003; Out of Print) Summary from WorldCat: “When his political activities with the Weather Underground radicals from the 1960s catch up with him, a man finds himself on the run in order to secure the love of his child.”
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Movie Title: Goats
Director: Christopher Neil
Cast:
Vera Farmiga …Wendy
David Duchovny …Goat Man
Keri Russell …Judy
Status: To be shown at Sundance Film Festival, 2012, in the Premieres category
Based on: Goats: A Novel, Mark Jude Poirier, Hyperion, 2002
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Movie Title: Lay the Favorite
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast:
Bruce Willis …Dink Heimowitz
Vince Vaughn …Rosie
Catherine Zeta-Jones …Tulip Heimowitz
Laura Prepon …Holly
Rebecca Hall …Beth Raymere
Status: To be shown at Sundance Film Festival, 2012, in the Premiers category
Based on: Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling by Beth Raymer (RH/Spiegel & Grau, 2010)
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Movie Title: Shadow Dancer
Director: James Marsh
Starring:
Clive Owen … Mac
Gillian Anderson … Kate Fletcher
Status: Scheduled for Sundance, 2012
Based on: Novel by Tom Bradby,(Bantam, 1998, currently O.P.)
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Movie Title: Perks of Being a Wallflower
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring:
Emma Watson … Sam
Nina Dobrev … Candace
Paul Rudd … Bill
Logan Lerman … Charlie
Dylan McDermott … Father
Status: In post-production, to be released in 2012 (Silver Chips Online, 12/19/11)
Based on: Book by Stephen Chbosky (who is also directing and writing the screenplay)
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Movie Title: On the Road
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: Post production
Based on: On the Road, Jack Kerouac
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Movie Title: Cogan’s Trade
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini
Status: Post-production
Based on: Book by George Higgins
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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: Post production, not scheduled for release yet
Based on: Novel by Marie Phillips, Hachette/Little Brown, 2007
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Movie Title: Austenland
Director: Jerusha Hess
Starring:
Keri Russell … Jane Hayes
JJ Feild … Mr. Henry Nobley
Status: Filming wrapped in August, 2011
Based on: Austenland by
Shannon Hale
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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: Post production
Based on: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Roger S. Baum
Official Web Site: DorothyOfOz.com
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Movie Title: Syrup
Director: Aram Rappaport
Starring: Amber Heard, Shiloh Fernandez
Status: Post-production; MTV video from the set (7/6/11); the author is blogging about it.
Based on: Debut novel by Max Barry. Penguin, 2000
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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: Post production
Based on: Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
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Movie Title: Midnight’s Children
Director: Deepa Mehta
Status: Post-production, to be released some time in Oct, 2012; Sneek preview at the Toronto Film Festival
Based on: Novel by Salman Rushdie
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Movie Title: The Paperboy
Director: Lee Daniels
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, David Oyelowo, Macy Gray and Scott Glenn
Status: Post production
Based on: Novel by Pete Dexter
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Movie Title: The Woman in the Fifth
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas
Status: Was scheduled for 10/21/11, then moved to Winter 2012
Based on: Novel by Douglas Kennedy (Atria, 7/5/11)
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Movie Title: Wuthering Heights
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring:
Kaya Scodelario … Catherine Earnshaw
Nichola Burley …Isabella Linton
James Howson …Heathcliff
Status: To be shown as a Spotlight film at Sundance, 2012
Based on: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Movie Title: John Dies at the End
Director: Don Coscarelli
Starring:
Chase Williamson … Dave
Rob Mayes … John
Paul Giamatti … Arnie Blondestone
Clancy Brown … Dr. Albert Marconi
Status: To primiere at Sundance, 2012; no general release date
Based on: John Dies at the End by David Wong (Jason Pargin), a spoof of the horror genre. First published online beginning in 2001. It was published as a pbk by indie horror publisher, Permuted Press in 2007 and in hardcover by Thomas Dunn/St. Martins in 2009. It was reviewed in the prepub media and is owned by many public libraries.
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Movie Title: Hick
Director: Derick Martini
Starring:
Chloe Moretz … Luli McMullen
Blake Lively … Glenda
Juliette Lewis … Tammy
Alec Baldwin
Status: Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept., 2011
Based on: Coming-of-age novel by Andrea Portes, Unbridled Books, 2007
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Movie Title: Bless Me, Ultima
Director: Carl Franklin
Cast:
Benito Martinez … Gabriel
David Rees Snell … Father Byrnes
Miriam Colon … Ultima
Lora Martinez-Cunningham … Miss Maestas
Status: Filming complete (Muscatine [Iowa] Journal, 1/27/11)
Based on: Novel by Rudolfo Anaya
