This listing is in three segments:

1) Director and/or Stars Announced

2) Rights Acquired — rights acquired, but no news on cast or director as yet (to jump to that section, search RAQ on page)

3) Lost in Production — rights acquired, but nothing has happened in years, making it unlikely that a movie will actually be made

Movies scheduled for filming are in a separate listing —  see In Production

For movies with scheduled release dates, see Upcoming — with Tie-ins

Movies that have played to date:

2011 Archive 

2010 Archive

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Director and/or Stars Announced

Movie Title: All You Need Is Kill (may have been changed to We Mortal Are)

Director: Doug Liman

Status: Doug Liman says hopes it will be his next project (Collider, 2/2/2012), starring Tom Cruise

Based on: Graphic Novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, 2004

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Movie Title: How I Live Now

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Status: Saoirse Ronan signed to star

Based on: Novel by Meg Rosoff
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Movie Title: Logan’s Run

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

Starring: Ryan Gosling

Status:  Refn and Gosling reuniting after Drive

Based on: Novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson (also made into a  1976 movie starring Michael York; a tv series was spun off the film)
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Movie Title: The Family Fang

Starring: Nicole Kidman

Status: optioned by Kidman’s production company, Blossome Films (Deadline, 10/27/11)

Based on: The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson, Ecco (2011)

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Movie Title: The Railway Man

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Starring: Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz

Status: Received production investment funding from Screen Australia (Encore, 9/22/11)

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 Caves of Steel

Status: Henry Hobbs to direct (Deadline, 9/22/11)

Based on: Novel by Isaac Asimov (1954)

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TV Series Title:  King and Maxwell (tentative)

Network: CBS

Status: Announced, Deadline, 8/23/11

Based on: Novels by David Baldacci

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Movie Title: Danger Girl

Director:  Andy Hartnell

Status:  Kate Beckinsale, Milla Jovovich and Sofia Vergara rumored to star (BleedingCool, 8/22/11)

Based on: Danger Girl graphic novel by J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell, IDW Publishing
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Movie Title: The Fear Index

Director: Paul Greengrass (Bourne Identity)

Status:  signed by  20^th Century Fox; author is writing the screenplay (The Telegraph, 8/23/11)

Based on: Novel by Robert Harris, Jan., 2012 (signed before book’s release)

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Movie Title: The Gray Man

Director: James Gray

Status: Brad Pitt signed to star (The Playlist, 8/5/11)

Based on: The Gray Man, debut thriller by Mark Greaney (Jove, 2009). On Target (Jove, 2010), the second Gray Man novel was published as an original mass mkt pbk. The third in the series, Ballistic (Berkley, 10/4/11) is a trade pbk original. Greaney is also co-author on Tom Clancy’s Locked On (12/13/11)

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Movie Title: Creed of Violence

Director: Todd Field

Status:  Leonardo DiCaprio to play one of the leads (L.A. Times, 7/29/11)

Based on: Novel by Boston Teran (Counterpoint, 2009)

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Movie Title: Crooked House

Director: Neil Labute

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Gabriel Byrne, Julie Andrews and Matthew Goode

Status: To begin shooting summer 2011 (Variety, 5/15/11) — no more news, as of 2/16/2012

Based on: Novel by Agatha Christie
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Movie Title: Music and Silence

Director: Lone Scherfig

Status: To begin shooting early 2012, with a 2013 release (Thompson on Hollywood, 5/15/11); still listed as “pre-production” on IMDB, as of 2/16/2012

Based on: Novel by Rose Tremain
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Movie Title: Mortal Instruments

Director: Scott Charles Stewart

Cast: Lily Collins… Clary Fray

Status: Script rewritten, hopes to shoot in early spring, 2012,  (VHI, FabLife, 12/12/11)

Based on: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
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Movie Title: Dogs of Babel

Status: John Carney signed to direct (L.A. Times, 11/2/11);  Steve Carell signed to star (Variety, 2/22/11)

Based on: Novel by Carolyn Parkhurst

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Movie Title: Back Roads

Director: Adrian Lyne

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jennifer Garner, Marcia Gay Harden

Status: Jennifer Garner pregnant, which may affect production (NextMovie.com, 8/23/11)

Based on: Novel by Tawnie O’Dell, Viking, 2000 (an Oprah Book Club selection, March, 2000)
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Movie Title: The Abstinence Teacher

Director: Lisa Cholodenko

Status: Announced that Cholodenko will direct (formerly, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris were attached); Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock were once set to star (IOnCinema, 2/18/11); still listed as “In development” on IMDB as of 2/16/12.

Based on: Novel by Tom Perrotta

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Title: Incarceron

Studio: Fox

Based on: Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Status: Taylor Lautner (Twilight) signed to star (Deadline, 12/9/10); Fox 2000 acquired rights “with an eye to spinning the dystopian fantasy into a franchise,” (Variety, 3/10)

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Movie Title: Death Note

Director: Shane Black

Status: Will be live-action; script being written; Black hired by Warner Bros. (Deadline, 1/13/11)

Based on: Manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata; was released as a two-part, live-action Japanese movie in 2006

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Movie Title:  Admission

Director: Paul Weitz

Status: Tina Fey in talks to star (The Wrap, 1/10/11)

Based on: Admission, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Grand Central, 2009

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Movie Title: The Monster of Florence

Status: George Clooney to star (The Wrap, 1/4/11)

Based on: Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi, Grand Central, 2008

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Movie Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Based on: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Director: Craig Gillespie

Status: Blake Lively back out of lead (TotalFilm.com, 10/4/11), raising doubts about whether it will go forward
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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)

Status: IMDB lists a 2013 release date

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Movie Title: The Maze Runner

Status: Catherine Hardwicke to direct; script being written (MTV, 3/11/11) UPDATE: Hardwicke is talking about another project in recent interviews, so this may be on the back burner

Based on: First book in sci-fi trilogy by James Dashner (Delacorte Young Readers, 2009)

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Movie Title: The Piano Tuner

Director: Werner Herzog

Status: “Werner Herzog is heading to Burma for his new film, The Piano Tuner,” TimeOut, London, 11/21/10

Based on: 2002 novel by Daniel Mason

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Movie Title: How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Status: Rights acquired by Jack Black and director Steve Pink (io9, 10/25/10)

Based on: Novel by Daniel H. Wilson

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Movie Title: If I Stay

Director: Heitor Dhalia

Status: Catherine Hardwicke was set to direct, but left to direct Red Riding Hood. She’s been replaced by Brazilian filmmaker Heitor Dhalia; Dakota Fanning, cast for the lead, backed out, putting the project in jeopardy, L.A. Times, 12/8/10

Based on: YA novel by Gayle Forman

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Movie Title: Nightfall

Director: James Wan

Status: Wan signed to direct (Deadline, 8/25/10)

Based on: Graphic Novel by Scott O. Brown with art by Ferran Xalabarder, 2007

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Movie Title: Hyperion

Director: Scott Derrickson

Status: “Warner Bros. hasn’t yet begun casting this tricky adaptation, though a screenplay has apparently been completed.” NextMovie.com. 11/23/10

Based on: 1989 sci-fi epic by Dan Simmons

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Movie Title: Fahrenheit 451

Director: Frank Darabont

Status: “Darabont is currently searching for a lead actor with the chops to play the part — and the pull to secure some major funding too, of course.”; NextMovie.com, 11/23/10
Based on: Classic novel by Ray Bradbury

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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: The Bell Jar

Status: “Stiles has been preparing for the role for well over two years without the cameras actually rolling. With a director (Nicole Kassell) and script in place, though, it looks like this is just a matter of time now.” NextMovie.com, 11/24/10

Director: Nicole Kassell

Starring: Julia Stiles, Virginia Madsen, Rose McGowan (rumored)

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Rights Acquired (RAQ)

Movie Title: Magic Kingdom for Sale – Sold!

Status: Series optioned (BrooksBlog, 1/29/12)

Based on:  Magic Kingdom for Sale – Sold!, by Terry Brooks (RH/Del Rey, 1986); first in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series.

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Movie Title: Fever series

Status:  Rights acquired by DreamWorks in Aug., 2011; may film in Ireland (IFTN, 10/18/11)

Based on: Karen Marie Moning’s best selling five book Fever series

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Movie Title: Satori

Status:  Right acquired by Warner Bros.

Based on: Winslow, Satori (Grand Central, 3/7/11), the prequel to Shibumi, by Trevanian (1979)

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Movie Title: A Matter of Honor (and possible follow up, Honor Among Thieves)

Status:  Ten Archer books that have been acquired by Canadian equity firm New Franchise Media, which will work with producer Frank Marshall (the Bourne series)on the films (Slashfilm, 9/14/11)

Based on: Novels by Jeffrey Archer

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TV Series: The Eleventh Commandment

Status: Being developed by The Walking Dead producer Gale Ann Hurd (SlashFilm, 9/19)

Based on: Novel by  Jeffrey Archer

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Movie Title: Peace Like a River

Status:  Tate Taylor (The Help) working on script,  (The Wrap, 9/24/11)

Based on: Novel by Lief Enger

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Movie Title: The 39 Clues

Status: Dreamworks “ramping up development: (The Wrap, 9/24/11)

Based on: The 39 Clues by Rick Riordan

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Movie Title: The BFG

Status: Dreamworks acquired the rights (The Wrap, 9/24/11); Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall producing

Based on: Roald Dahl, The BFG

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Movie Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Status:  Right acquired by Fox (MovieWeb, May)

Based on: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books)

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Movie Title: Sing You Home

Producer: Ellen DeGeneres (Deadline, 3/22/11)

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Movie Title: Inherent Vice

Status: Robert Downey Jr. considering lead (Deadline, 2/19/11)

Based on: Novel by Thomas Pynchon
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TV series: Olive Kitteridge
Script being shopped to HBO (Deadline, 8/10/10)
Producer: Frances McDormand
Based on: Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
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Movie Title: The Giver

Director: David Yates

Based on: YA novel by Lois Lowry
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Movie Title: Every Secret Thing
Starring: Diane Lane (Deadline, 8/10/10)
Based on: Every Secret Thing, Laura Lippman
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Movie Title: The Osterman Weekend
Status: Deadline, 8/4/10 reports that Robert Schwentke may direct.
Based on: The Osterman Weekend, Robert Ludlum
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Movie Title: Shadow Divers
Status: Deadline, 8/4/10 reports that Robert Schwentke may direct.
Based on: Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson, Random House, 2004
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Movie Title: Skippy Dies
Director: Neil Jordan
Status: Reported in Deadline, 8/2/10
Based on: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (on the 2010 Booker long list)
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Movie Title: Shoe Addicts Anonymous
Director: Paul Weiland
Status: Halle Berry signed to star (Deadline, 7/21)
Based on: Shoe Addicts Anonymous, Beth Harbison (St. Martins, 2007)
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Movie Title: The Contortionist’s Handbook
Status: Channing Tatum signed to star, production to begin early next year; Deadline, 8/10/10
Based on: Debut novel by Craig Clevenger, Macadam Cage, 2003
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Movie Title: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Status:Rob Lieber (Septimus Heap: Magyk) writing screenplay (Variety, 7/26/10)
Based on: Book by Judith Viorst, Atheneum, 1972
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Movie Title: Cleopatra, 2011
Director: Not named yet
Status: Scott Rudin has the film rights. David Fincher to direct, after James Cameron dropped out to turn his attention to Avatar sequels (Deadline, 3/22/11)
Based on: Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff, (Little, Brown, 11/01/10)
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Movie Title: Vampire Academy
Status: Rights acquired; Producers shopping to studios (io9, 7/9/10)
Based on: Series by Richelle Mead
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Movie Title: All Quiet on the Western Front
Status: Daniel Radcliffe has signed to star; shooting likely to start in 2012 (ReelBollywood, 6/26/10)
Based on: book by Erich Maria Remarque
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Movie Title: Wake
Director: Not named yet
Status: Miley Cyrus announced to star (Hollywood Reporter, 6/17/10)
Cast: Miley Cyrus
Based on: Wake, Lisa McMann, (Simon Pulse, 2008)
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Movie Title: The Tiger
Status: Announced by Random House Films (a joint project with Focus Features)
Status: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie producing, NextMovie,com, 10/8/10
Based on: Tiger, John Vaillant (Knopf, 8/24/10)
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Movie Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Status: Oprah’s Harpo Films and Alan Ball will produce for HBO
Based on: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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Movie Title: Consent to Kill, 2012
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Status: Stalled, after reports in March ’10 that Colin Farrell, Gerard Butler, and Matthew Fox were the leading contenders for lead role
Based on: Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
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Movie Title: Airborn
Status: Rights acquired by Stephen Sommers; Christian Vandal and Styna Whatman cast.
Based on: Kenneth Oppel’s 2004 alternate history steampunk young adult novel
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Movie Title: A Wrinkle in Time, 2013
Status: Screenwriter hired, 3/10 (Variety)
Based on: A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
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Movie Title: The Monk
Director: Dominik Moll
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Geraldine Chaplin, Sergi Lopez, Deborah Francois
Based on: The Monk, Matthew Lewis
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Movie Title: Project based on Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein series
Status: Ralph Winter and Terry Botwick have acquired the rights, plan to create a series of movies
Based on:

Prodigal Son, 2004
City of Night, 2005
Dead and Alive, 2009
Lost Souls, 6/22/10
Projected fifth title, 2011
Projected sixth title, 2012

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Movie Title: The Lost Symbol
Director:
Starring: Tom Hanks
Status: Script being rewritten by Dan Brown (The Playlist, 12/21/10)
Based on: The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
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Movie Title: The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Director: Eric Bress
Status: “Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the power producer behind epics like Doom, Constantine, Transformers and G. I. Joe is throwing his considerable weight behind this adaptation …with di Bonaventura behind the movie, it’s almost certain to get made.” NextMovie.com, 11/23/10
Based on: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott
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Movie Title: The Danish Girl
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Uma Thurman
Status: Cast has been a revolving door, with Charlize Theron leaving, followed by Gwyneth Paltrow (MannyTheMovieGuy, 4/20/10)
Based On: The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff
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Movie Title: Blood Meridian
Director: Ridley Scott
Status: In an interview in Nov., 2008, Ridley Scott said the screenplay is written, but that the material is so violent, that “maybe it’s something that should be left as a novel.”
Based on: Book by Cormac McCarthy
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Movie Title: My Name is Memory
Status: Rights signed 11/09
Based On: My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
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Move Title: The Little Prince
Status: French film producers have acquired rights (Variety, 2/24/10); filming expected in 2011
Based on: The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Title: Secrets of Eden
Studio: Fox
Producer: Crain Anderson Prods.
Based on: Secrets of Eden by Chris Bojalian
Status: Variety reported acquisition, 3/9/10
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Movie Title: Peony in Love, 2012
Studio: Fox
Producer: Ridley Scott
Based on: Peony in Love by Lisa See
Status: Variety (2/21/10) reports that screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson has been hired to adapt
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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 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: Septimus Heap: Magyk, 2011
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: Shiver, 2012
Status: Rights optioned (Variety, 9/29/09)
Based on: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
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Movie Title: Neuromancer. 2011
Status: “The funding isn’t quite in place yet – although a lot of international excitement was drummed up at Cannes – but preliminary work is underway on Splice director Vincenzo Natali’s adaptation of Neuromancer.” — Empire Online, 6/20/11
Based on: Neuromancer by William Gibson
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Movie Title: Wicked
Status: Deadline Hollywood (7/9/10) says it is moving forward
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: Same Kind of Different as Me, 2011
Director: Douglas McGrath
Status: Samuel L. Jackson to star’ “With Jackson aboard, the script is now being shopped for production financing.” (Variety, 10/7/10)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson
Based on: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Denver Moore, Ron Hall and Lynn Vincent.
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Movie Title: Thirteenth Hour, 2011
Status: Screenwriters signed (Variety, 3/3/09)
Based on: 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
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Movie title: Dracula: The Un-Dead, 2012
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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TV Series Title: Sellevision, 2012

Based on: Sellevision, Augusten Burroughs
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Movie Title: Pirate Latitudes, 2011
Status: 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, 2011
StatusL 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, 2013
Status: 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, 2011
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, 2011, (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, 2010
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, 2010
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, 2011
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: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. 2010
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.2013
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, 2013
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: 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, 2012
Director: Peter Berg
Status: scrapped (Deadline, 3/22/11)
Based on: Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi epic
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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: 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
Status: In development
Based on: The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown; 2005)
Variety, 5/15/05
Status: 11/13/10 Variety lists it as either a “dead project or on life support”
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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, 2013
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 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: 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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LOST IN PRODUCTION (?)

Movie Title: Paradise Lost 

Director: Alex Proyas

Status: CANCELLED – The Playlist, 2/9/12

Based on: Poem by John Milton

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Movie Title: At the Mountains of Madness
Status: CANCELLED (Deadline, 3/7/11)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast:
Ron Perlman … Larson
Status: Pre-production; James Cameron producing
Based on: Novella by HP Lovecraft

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Movie trilogy & TV series: The Dark Tower

Director, first feature films & first season of TV series: Ron Howard

Status: CANCELLED. It was supposed to begin filming in  Sept. 2011, but Universal passed, due to the costs; HBO was set to run the TV series. Director Ron Howard has now turned his attention to a film on formula one racing, Rush. (Reelz, 11/3/11)

Based on: Dark Tower series by Stephen King

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Movie Title: Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 2010
Status: Variety reported (10/28/08) that the Coen brothers are in the process of adapting it; it hasn’t been officially abandoned and, according to The Playlist, 2/16/2012, it could still happen
Based on: Novel of the same title by Michael Chabon
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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. Steven Daldry, who has been attached to direct since 2004, said in an interview that he is interested in doing it as a mini-series for HBO (Collider, 12/15/11).
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Movie Title: The Lost City of Z

Director: James Gray

Starring: Brad Pitt — No longer attached

Status: Paramount “Pulled the plug” on it; James Gray and Brad Pitt in plans to make The Gray Man (The Playlist, 8/15/11)

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

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Movie Title: The Devil in the White City
Based on: Book by Eric Larson
Status: 11/13/10 Variety lists it as either a “dead project or on life support”
11/1/10 Deadline reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is working to acquire the rights and will star.
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Movie Title: Den of Thieves
Based on: Book by James B. Stewart
Status: 11/13/10 Variety lists it as either a “dead project or on life support”
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Movie Title: The Alienist
Based on: Novel by Caleb Carr
Status: 11/13/10 Variety lists it as either a “dead project or on life support”
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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: 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:
11/13/10 Variety lists it as either a “dead project or on life support”
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.

Producing are Diane Nabatoff (“Narc”), Allan Mindel (“My Own Private Idaho”) and Will Raee, with Raee to direct from a script by Stephanie Pinola and Karen Croner. Producers are eyeing a first-quarter shoot. Thurman’s also producing.
Story’s based on Kathy Cook’s book “Stolen Angels,” which follows the 1996 raid at a boarding school, where a band of armed rebels abducted young girls to turn them into soldiers and sex slaves.