Anthony Veasna So’s After parties goes to the small screen, Deadline reports† Lauren Yee will executive produce a series based on So’s debut short story collection, published by Ecco last August, eight months after the author died of a drug…
Kwame Alexander’s Basketball Themed Children’s Book, the crossingwill be televised for Disney+ with an appropriate executive producer: Los Angeles Lakers attacker LeBron James, Deadline reports† Alexander’s 2014 Newbery Medal-winning novel in verse tells the story of twin brothers, both basketball…
Eleanor Oliphant goes to the big screen. A film adaptation of the bestseller by Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant is all right is in the works for MGM, Deadline reports† The film will be directed by Harry Bradbeer, known for his…
Lucy Liu stars in a limited-series adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Later† Deadline reports† The 2021 novel, published by Hard Case Crime, follows a boy who can talk to dead people, who is recruited by a New York police detective…
Percy Jackson returns to the screen. Streaming service Disney+ has given the green light for a small film adaptation of the popular children’s book series by Rick Riordan, Variety reports† The fantasy series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, about a…
Keep an eye out for Kirkus’ upcoming columns in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video series reacher (premiered February 4), based on Lee Child’s mystery thriller kill floorand a theatrical film version of Graham Swift’s novel starring Kirkus,…
The 1999 version of the movie fight club which was released in China has a drastically different ending than the American moviegoers. But Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the novel the film was based on, isn’t crazy about it, according to…
Andrew Michael Hurley’s Starve Acre heads to the big screen, with actors Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark on board, Variety reports† Daniel Kokotajlo will direct the actors in an adaptation of Hurley’s 2019 horror novel, which follows Richard and Juliette,…
Saoirse Ronan stars in a film adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir the outrun† according to to the Hollywood reporter† The Irish actor (Ladybug, little women) will star in the film, which will be directed by Nora Fingscheidt, the German filmmaker…
JJ Abrams’ production company is working on a television adaptation of Stephen King’s Billy Summers† Deadline reports† Bad Robot, which Abrams co-founded with Bryan Burk in 1999, is working on a limited series based on King’s novel, which they plan…
Art Spiegelman has no interest in selling the screen rights to his graphic memoir Maus† according to to the Hollywood reporter† Interest in Spiegelman’s two-volume book about his parents’ experiences as Holocaust survivors peaked this year after it was banned…
Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child’s long-running mystery thriller series, is a highly decorated ex-military police officer who now lives an uprooted life as a drifter. He just wants to “wander,” as he puts it, and see parts of…