Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre
Here are the upcoming movies that were first inspired by a book or series of books.
2010 Movies
Movie: Eat, Pray, Love
Release Date: August 13th (wide)
Based on: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Movie: The American
Release Date: September 1st (limited)
Based on: A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
Movie: The Town
Release Date: September 10th (wide)
Based on: Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan
Movie: Love and Other Drugs
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy
Movie: The Parsifal Mosaic
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum
Movie: Fair Game
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson
Movie: Freaky Deaky
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
Movie: The Adventurer’s Handbook
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Adventurer’s Handbook by Mick Conefrey
Movie: Time of My Life
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Time of My Life, time-travel drama by Allison Winn Scotch
Movie: The Mad Ones
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Mad Ones by Tom Folsom
Movie: Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Movie: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Movie: The Great Gatsby
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Movie: When the Wind Blows
Release Date: 2010
Status: When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
Movie: Playing for Pizza
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Movie: The Historian
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Movie: Where’s Waldo?
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Where’s Waldo? by Martin Handford
Movie: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke
Movie: Discipline
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Discipline by Paco Ahlgren
Movie: Escape
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Movie: Stolen Innocence
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Movie: Beat the Reaper
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Movie: The Pale Horseman
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Pale Horsemen by Bernard Cornwell
Movie: The Interpretation of Murder
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Movie: The Secret
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Secret by Mike Richardson
Movie Title: Escape from the Deep
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Escape from the Deep by Alex Kershaw
Movie: The Secret Life of Houdini
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.
Movie: The Silver Linings Playbook
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
2011 Movies
Movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Release Date: December, 2011
Based on: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Movie: The Giver
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Movie: The Hobbit
Release Date: Tentatively New Year’s Eve, 2011.
Based on: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Movie: One Day
Release Date: 2011
Based on: One Day by David Nicholls
Movie: Wuthering Heights
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Movie: Winnie
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob
Movie: On the Road
Release Date: 2011
Based on: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Movie: The Emperor’s Children
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
Movie: Moneyball
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Movie : Septimus Heap: Magyk
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage
Movie: Beautiful Creatures
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Movie: Neuromancer
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Movie: The Host
Release date: 2011
Based on: The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Movie: Same Kind of Different as Me
Release Date: 2011
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.
Movie: Thirteenth Hour
Release Date: 2011
Based on: 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
Movie: Pirate Latitudes
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Movie: The Last Summer of You and Me
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
Movie: Shining City
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Shining City by Seth Greenland
Movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
Release Date: 2011
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
Movie: Three Little Words
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Movie: Kong: King of Skull Island
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Kong: King of Skull Island by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland
Movie: Edgar Sawtelle
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Movie: The Spellman Files
Release date: 2011
Based on: The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Movie: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Release Date: 2011
Based on: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Movie: The Hunger Games
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Movie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Movie: The Graveyard Book
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Movie: This Is Where I Leave You
Release Date: 2011
Based on: This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Movie: Brave New World
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Movie: The Chancellor Manuscript
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum
Movie: The Undomestic Goddess
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Movie: Outlander
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Movie: Savvy
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Savvy by Ingrid Law
Movie: If I Stay
Release Date: 2011
Based on: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
2012 Movies
Movie: One for the Money
Release Date: 2012
Based on: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Movie: Peony in Love
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Peony in Love by Lisa See
Movie: Mortal Instruments
Release Date: 2012
Based on: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Movie: Shiver
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Movie: Dracula:The Un-Dead
Release Date: 2012
Based on: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker
Movie: The Lucky One
Release Date: 2012
Based on: The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Movie: Wicked
Release Date: 2012
Based on: first two books in the Wicked series; Witch and Curse by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié
Movie: Dune
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Dune by Frank Herbert
Movie: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Movie: Beginner’s Greek
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Beginner’s Greek by James Collins
Movie: Crazy for the Storm
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
Movie: Dinotrux
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Dinotrux by Chris Gall
Movie: Florence of Arabia
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
Movie: Agincourt
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
2013 Movies
Title: Incarceron
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Movie: A Wrinkle in Time
Release Date: 2013
Based on: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Movie: Nice
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Nice by Jen Sacks
Movie: Good People
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Good People by Marcus Sakey
Movie: Netherland
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Movie: Angelology
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
Unknown Release Dates
Movie: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Movie Title: The Monk
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Movie: The Lost Symbol
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Movie: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
Movie: War Horse
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Movie: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Movie: The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Movie: The Danish Girl
Release Date: Unknown
Based On: The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Movie: The Lincoln Lawyer
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Movie: My Name is Memory
Release Date: Unknown
Based On: My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Move: The Little Prince
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Movie: Secrets of Eden
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: Secrets of Eden by Chris Bojalian
Movie: The Lost City of Z
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Movie: The Passage
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Movie: The Duke of Deception
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolfe
Newly Bought Movie Right
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, has reportedly bought the movie rights to Tom Rachman’s much-buzzed-about novel The Imperfectionists. Published in April, the book is an endearing comedy of manners set at a fictional English-language newspaper in Rome. Though some early reviews were mixed, Janet Maslin of the New York Times loved it, saying the novel was “a splendid original, filled with wit and structured so ingeniously that figuring out where the author is headed is half the reader’s fun.” Fueled by word-of-mouth praise, The Imperfectionists is beginning to take off; it’s now showing up on some best-seller lists.
Movie: Eat, Pray, Love
Release Date: August 13th (wide)
Based on: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Movie: The American
Release Date: September 1st (limited)
Based on: A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
Movie: The Town
Release Date: September 10th (wide)
Based on: Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan
Movie: Love and Other Drugs
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy
Movie: The Parsifal Mosaic
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum
Movie: Fair Game
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson
Movie: Freaky Deaky
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard
Movie: The Adventurer’s Handbook
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Adventurer’s Handbook by Mick Conefrey
Movie: Time of My Life
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Time of My Life, time-travel drama by Allison Winn Scotch
Movie: The Mad Ones
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Mad Ones by Tom Folsom
Movie: Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Movie: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Movie: The Great Gatsby
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Movie: When the Wind Blows
Release Date: 2010
Status: When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
Movie: Playing for Pizza
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Movie: The Historian
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Movie: Where’s Waldo?
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Where’s Waldo? by Martin Handford
Movie: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke
Movie: Discipline
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Discipline by Paco Ahlgren
Movie: Escape
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Escape by Carolyn Jessop
Movie: Stolen Innocence
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Movie: Beat the Reaper
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Movie: The Pale Horseman
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Pale Horsemen by Bernard Cornwell
Movie: The Interpretation of Murder
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Movie: The Secret
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Secret by Mike Richardson
Movie Title: Escape from the Deep
Release Date: 2010
Based on: Escape from the Deep by Alex Kershaw
Movie: The Secret Life of Houdini
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman.
Movie: The Silver Linings Playbook
Release Date: 2010
Based on: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
2011 Movies
Movie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Release Date: December, 2011
Based on: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Movie: The Giver
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Movie: The Hobbit
Release Date: Tentatively New Year’s Eve, 2011.
Based on: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Movie: One Day
Release Date: 2011
Based on: One Day by David Nicholls
Movie: Wuthering Heights
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Movie: Winnie
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob
Movie: On the Road
Release Date: 2011
Based on: On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Movie: The Emperor’s Children
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud
Movie: Moneyball
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Movie : Septimus Heap: Magyk
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage
Movie: Beautiful Creatures
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Movie: Neuromancer
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Movie: The Host
Release date: 2011
Based on: The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Movie: Same Kind of Different as Me
Release Date: 2011
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.
Movie: Thirteenth Hour
Release Date: 2011
Based on: 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch
Movie: Pirate Latitudes
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Movie: The Last Summer of You and Me
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
Movie: Shining City
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Shining City by Seth Greenland
Movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
Release Date: 2011
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
Movie: Three Little Words
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Movie: Kong: King of Skull Island
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Kong: King of Skull Island by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland
Movie: Edgar Sawtelle
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Movie: The Spellman Files
Release date: 2011
Based on: The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Movie: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Release Date: 2011
Based on: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Movie: The Hunger Games
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Movie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Movie: The Graveyard Book
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Movie: This Is Where I Leave You
Release Date: 2011
Based on: This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Movie: Brave New World
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Movie: The Chancellor Manuscript
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum
Movie: The Undomestic Goddess
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Movie: Outlander
Release Date: 2011
Based on: The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Movie: Savvy
Release Date: 2011
Based on: Savvy by Ingrid Law
Movie: If I Stay
Release Date: 2011
Based on: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
2012 Movies
Movie: One for the Money
Release Date: 2012
Based on: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Movie: Peony in Love
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Peony in Love by Lisa See
Movie: Mortal Instruments
Release Date: 2012
Based on: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Movie: Shiver
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Movie: Dracula:The Un-Dead
Release Date: 2012
Based on: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker
Movie: The Lucky One
Release Date: 2012
Based on: The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Movie: Wicked
Release Date: 2012
Based on: first two books in the Wicked series; Witch and Curse by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié
Movie: Dune
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Dune by Frank Herbert
Movie: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Movie: Beginner’s Greek
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Beginner’s Greek by James Collins
Movie: Crazy for the Storm
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
Movie: Dinotrux
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Dinotrux by Chris Gall
Movie: Florence of Arabia
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley
Movie: Agincourt
Release Date: 2012
Based on: Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
2013 Movies
Title: Incarceron
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Movie: A Wrinkle in Time
Release Date: 2013
Based on: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Movie: Nice
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Nice by Jen Sacks
Movie: Good People
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Good People by Marcus Sakey
Movie: Netherland
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Movie: Angelology
Release Date: 2013
Based on: Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
Unknown Release Dates
Movie: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Movie Title: The Monk
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Movie: The Lost Symbol
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Movie: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
Movie: War Horse
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Movie: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Movie: The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Movie: The Danish Girl
Release Date: Unknown
Based On: The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Movie: The Lincoln Lawyer
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Movie: My Name is Memory
Release Date: Unknown
Based On: My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
Move: The Little Prince
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Movie: Secrets of Eden
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: Secrets of Eden by Chris Bojalian
Movie: The Lost City of Z
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Movie: The Passage
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Movie: The Duke of Deception
Release Date: Unknown
Based on: The Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolfe
Newly Bought Movie Right
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, has reportedly bought the movie rights to Tom Rachman’s much-buzzed-about novel The Imperfectionists. Published in April, the book is an endearing comedy of manners set at a fictional English-language newspaper in Rome. Though some early reviews were mixed, Janet Maslin of the New York Times loved it, saying the novel was “a splendid original, filled with wit and structured so ingeniously that figuring out where the author is headed is half the reader’s fun.” Fueled by word-of-mouth praise, The Imperfectionists is beginning to take off; it’s now showing up on some best-seller lists.
