Adaptations Update
The adaptation of Donna Tartt’s 2013 best seller The Goldfinch (Hachette/Little,Brown) may finally be moving ahead. Variety reports that Warner Bros. is working on a deal with Amazon Studios to co-finance the project.
That’s just one of the over 40 projects we’ve updated on our spreadsheet of Upcoming Movies & TV Based on Books in the last two weeks. To browse the latest information, download EarlyWord, Books to Movies, UPDATES — Aug 7 thru Aug 22
Other highlights:
Production has begun in Atlanta on a movie based on the YA novel Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy. In the title role is Australian actress Danielle Macdonald, who is currently getting kudos as the star of Patti Cake$. Jennifer Aniston will join her in the musical comedy, playing her mother.
A director has been hired for a TV series based on Amor Towles’s A Gentleman From Moscow, which is still on the NYT best seller list, at #8 after 28 weeks.
Stars have been announced for a TV series based on Deborah Harkness’s A Discovery of Witches.
Octavia Butler’s Dawn, Book One in her Lilith’s Brood trilogy,(1987) is being developed as a TV series.
Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is moving forward as a Netflix series.
Trailers have been released for:
Our Souls at Night, based on Ken Haruf’s 2015 novel.
Molly’s Game based on the memoir, Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker, by Molly Bloom, (HarperCollins/It Books, 2014)