Books Expected To Become Movies

Stephen’s king’s son Joe Hill is getting a movie this year starring Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe will bring Hill’s gothic fiction Horns novel to life, in which he plays main character Ig Perrish, who grows horns after his girlfriend is murdered. And then he uses these magical horns to find out whodunnit. This book is  said to be crazy bloody & great.

The Hundred

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the human population is trapped in space, Earth being ruined with radiation and whatnot. But now enough time has passed that it might be habitable again… might. So the government sends 100 expendable kids from the space Juvenile Detention center to test it out. The CW picked up this just released book for a TV series; the trailer was just released, and you 

Under the Dome

An invisible forcefield traps a small town under an impenetrable dome. Then everything goes to hell, as it so often does in the small towns of Stephen King’s imagination. The series just aired this week on CBS, thanks to showrunner Brian K. Vaughan. The book is said to be long but a page turner.

Author: Stephen King

Ender’s Game

Boy genius Ender is plucked from obscurity and placed in the middle of an alien war in the future, because kids’ minds are the best weapon in this future world. Gavin Hood is directingHugo star Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggins, who will join Sir Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis and Harrison Ford in space to fight for the future of humanity.  A fast read — 

Author: Orson Scott Card

Release Date: November 1st, 2013

Divergent

A lot of people have been calling Divergent the new Hunger Games. Set in a future world of Chicago where the population is broken down by personalities (factions), the book features fantastic characters, great action and the love scenes . Granted, The movie is being directed by Neil Burger of Limitless, starring a cast of kids. Think knife-throwing, death and hard kisses mixed with conspiracy.

Author: Veronica Roth

Release Date: March 21st, 2014

The Futurological Congress/The Congress

Loosely (very loosely) based on Stanislaw Lem’s work, the upcoming movie blends cartoons and live-action. Its severely dark humor focuses around actress Robin Wright, playing herself, who’s stuck in actor’s limbo in L.A. Wright signs away her life rights to a futuristic machine that allows everything about her to be used for profit. She enters a utopian oasis that (just like all utopias) turns out to be a lie, but there’s a twist to the twist.

Author: Stanislaw Lem

Release Date: It premiered at Cannes, but doesn’t have an official release date yet (look for it at future festivals)

The Maze Runner

The hugely popular Young Adult novel is coming to the big screen starring that kid everyone likes fromTeen Wolf. Set in the future, the main character wakes up in a giant maze and no memories. Thus begins the running.

Author: James Dashner

Release Date: February 14th, 2014

If I Stay

A strange, out-of-body movie about a teenager who falls into a coma after a terrible accident. From outside her human shell she watches as friends and family visit her hospital room and is faced with a complicated choice: return to her body and lead a hard life… or die. This adaptation has been floating around FOREVER. First, Catherine Hardwicke was attached to direct, then Heitor Dhalia (both are out). Dakota Fanning was originally going to star, but now the torch has been past to Chloe Moretz, who is still attached to the project with RJ Cutler from Nashvilleas director. We have all our fingers crossed for the future of this film.

Author: Gayle Forman

Release Date: No date yet (still in development)

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

There’s still time to catch up on everyone’s favorite airport reading. The second movie is still months away and while its premise is very similar to the first book  still suppose to be  great. 

Author: Suzanne Collins

Release Date: November 22nd, 2013

 

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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson is back with his band of  teen Greek gods, and they’ve got a new mission — they need to find the Golden Fleece. We continue to pledge our love for this cute book series and its similarly adorable movie franchise. Considered fun and clever .

Author: Rick Riordan

Release Date: August 7th, 2013

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The Last Apprentice/ Seventh Son

While penned for the younger breed of humans, The Last Apprentice is a pretty dark bit of fantasy. It’s good versus evil, and in the movie the good will be represented as a sorcerer (or Spook) played by Jeff Bridges, and the evil is gorgeous witch woman Julianne Moore.

Author: Joseph Delaney

Release Date: January 17th, 2014

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The Leftovers

The author of Election and Little Children takes on The Rapture. This book doesn’t describe the end of days, but rather what happens to all the leftovers still on the planet. Damon Lindelof and author Tom Perrotta are working together on an HBO series of this amazing book, and Perrotta is a freaking genius, so we can not wait.

Author: Tom Perrotta

Release Date: No date yet