Book Pipeline

Here are some of the most notable adaptations announced in November 2022. Mandeville Films has tapped Emily Carmichael and Shantha Susman to script the adaptation of Naomi Novak’s A Deadly Education. Meera Menon will direct. Del Rey published the novel in September 2020. Cartel Entertainment, Screen Media Ventures, and Foresight Unlimited will adapt Bob Rich’s novel Looking Through Water. Rowdy Herrington is set to pen the screenplay, and Howard Deutch will direct. Michael Douglas and Cameron Douglas will star. Skyhorse Publishing published the novel in November 2015. 3dot productions and Made Up Stories has acquired Susanna Hoffs’ upcoming novel The Bird Has Flown, which Little, Brown and Company will publish in this coming April. Writers David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin will script the animated adaptation of their children’s book The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank for Regenerate Films. Rubin will executive produce, and Miller will co-direct with…

Here are some of the most notable adaptations announced in October 2022. Cult icon John Waters will write/direct an adaptation of his novel Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance for Village Roadshow. The novel was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux last May. Temple Hill Productions has tapped Carter Blanchard to script the adaptation of Adam Cesare’s novel Clown in a Cornfield. Eli Craig will direct. HarperTeen published in August 2020. Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi will write and direct the adaptation of journalist Peter Pomerantsev’s “We Can Only Be Enemies” for AC Studios and AR Content. The article was originally published in The Atlantic in May of this year. Louverture Films, Plan B Entertainment, and AC Studios have picked up Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys. RaMell Ross will direct and co-write alongside Joslyn Barnes. The novel was originally published by Doubleday in July 2019. Lonetree Entertainment has acquired the rights to Hailey Piper’s supernatural…

Here are some of the most notable adaptations announced in September 2022. Writer/director Sofia Coppola has found her next project: an adaptation of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s memoir Elvis and Me. Stage 6 Films, American Zoetrope, and The Apartment Pictures are on to produce, and A24 will distribute. The memoir was published in 1985 by Berkley Books. Sony has acquired the film rights for Tarzan from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ estate. The 1912 original Tarzan of the Apes was first serialized in the pulp magazine The All-Story before being released as a novel in 1914 and spawning a series. Picturestart has tapped writer J.C. Lee to adapt Xiran Jay Zhao’s YA novel Iron Widow. Penguin Teen published the novel in September 2021. Monarch Media, Point Grey Pictures (Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg), and Lylas Pictures have acquired Sarah Leavitt’s graphic novel/memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me. Leah Nelson will…

Here are some of the most notable adaptations announced in August 2022. Screenwriters Adam Cooper and Bill Collage will adapt E.O. Chirovici’s novel The Book of Mirrors (now under the title Sleeping Dogs) for Nickel City Pictures, New Leaf Literary & Media, and Highland Film Group. Cooper will also direct, and Russell Crowe will star. The novel was originally published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books in February 2017. Michael Frank will adapt his novel What Is Missing for Morning Moon Productions. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published in October 2019. Sony and 21 Laps are making a film adaptation of Riley Sager’s Home Before Dark. Blair Butler will provide the screenplay, and Patrick Brice will direct. Dutton Books published the novel in June 2020. Sony, Fuller Media, and Fifty-Fifty Films have acquired Madison Lawson’s upcoming novel The Registration. Ben Collins and Luke Piortrowski will write the script, and Sydney Sweeney will produce…

Here are some of the most notable adaptations announced in July 2022. Disney, 2DUX² (Marc Forster), and Netter Productions will adapt Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. David Magee will write the script and Forster will direct. The novel was published in 2008 by HarperCollins. Kingdom Story Company and Lionsgate have tapped screenwriter Jason Hall to pen the adaptation of Eric Blehm’s Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown. The nonfiction book was published in 2012 by the Doubleday Religious Publishing Group. Disney and Olive Bridge Entertainment will adapt Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the Pea” under the title Penelope. Robert Sudduth will provide the script, and Ingrid Michaelson and Larry O’Keefe will write original songs. The fairy tale was first published in Andersen’s collection Tales, Told for Children in 1835. Kosmos Studios and Stone Village Pictures have tapped screenwriters Nina Gwyn…

Here are some of the most notable adaptations announced in June 2022. New Regency and Syndicate Entertainment have picked up The Dog Stars. Mark L. Smith wrote the script, based on the novel by Peter Heller. Knopf published the source material in August 2012. Screen Gems, 2.0 Entertainment, and Jesus & Mary have tapped Chuck MacLean to write The Pope’s Exorcist. Russell Crowe will star. The film will be based on Father Gabriele Amorth’s memoirs An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories, both published by Ignatius Press (in 1999 and 2002, respectively). Lionsgate, Temple Hill Productions, and Hudson Exports will adapt Kayvion Lewis’s upcoming novel Thieves’ Gambit for film. Steven Caple Jr. will produce and direct. Nancy Paulsen/Penguin will publish the YA novel in Fall 2023. Lionsgate will also team with Mandeville Films to adapt Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow, which Riverhead Books published last May. Blumhouse…