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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

UK Trailer

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