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The January task for the ONTD READING CHALLENGE is to read a book that is being adapted into a movie or tv show in 2018. To help you pick your book of the month,
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hjalmartazar and yours truly have selected some of the coolest-sounding upcoming adaptations. There's a lot, so we're dividing the list into parts, and starting a bit earlier than usual so you can get your library reservations in order.
Here's part 1:JanuaryTHE ALIENIST - The book by CALEB CARR is being adapted into a tv show on TNT starring Dakota Fanning, Daniel Brühl and Luke Evans. Premiere date: Jan 22.
Book summary: 1896, New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over.
FebruaryANNIHILATION - The sci-fi book by JEFF VANDERMEER is being adapted into a movie starring Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac and Jennifer Jason Leigh. From Alex Garland, the writer and director of Ex Machina. Release date: Feb 23.
Book summary: Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer. This is the twelfth expedition. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.
MarchRED SPARROW- The espionage thriller by JASON MATTHEWS (himself a retired CIA spy) is being adapted into a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton. Release date: March 2nd.
Book summary: In today’s Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. Drafted against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America’s valuable mole in Moscow. Seeking revenge against her soulless masters, Dominika begins a fatal double life, recruited by the CIA to ferret out a high-level traitor in Washington; hunt down a Russian illegal buried deep in the U.S. military and, against all odds, to return to Moscow as the new-generation penetration of Putin’s intelligence service.
A WRINKLE IN TIME - The children's book by MADELEINE L'ENGLE is being adapted into a movie by Ava Duvernay, starring starring Oprah, Mindy Kaling, and Reese Whiterspoon. Release date: March 9.
Book summary: Meg's father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?
SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA - The YA book by BECKY ALBERTALLI is being adapted into a movie titled “Love, Simon”, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford. Release date: March 16.
Book summary: 16-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised. With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.
THE TERROR - The horror book by DAN SIMMONS is being adapted into a tv series by Ridley Scott for AMC, starring Ciarán Hinds, Jared Harris and Tobias Menzies. Release date: March 26.
Book summary: Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of The Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison before they open them, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean.
The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching one seaman at a time or whole crews, leaving bodies mangled horribly or missing forever. Captain Crozier takes over the expedition after the creature kills its original leader, Sir John Franklin. Drawing equally on his own strengths as a seaman and the mystical beliefs of the Eskimo woman he's rescued, Crozier sets a course on foot out of the Arctic and away from the insatiable beast. But every day the dwindling crew becomes more deranged and mutinous, until Crozier begins to fear there is no escape from an ever-more-inconceivable nightmare.
READY PLAYER ONE - The YA sci-fi book by ERNEST CLINE is being adapted into a movie starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Simon Pegg. Release date: March 30.
Book summary: In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
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THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY - The historical fiction book by MARY ANN SCHAFFER is being adapted into a movie starring Lily James and Michiel Huisman. Release date: April 20.
Book summary: January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of WWII, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb… As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.
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WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE - The book by MARIA SEMPLE is being adapted into a movie by Richard Linklater starring Cate Blanchett, Judy Greer, and Kristen Wiig. Release date: May 11.
Book summary: Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence - creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
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SHARP OBJECTS - The thriller by GILLIAN FLYNN is being adapted into an HBO miniseries by director Jean-Marc Vallée starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson. Premiere: June (no date yet).
Book summary: Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows, a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
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[stills 12 ]ONTD, which of these adaptations are you excited for? Have you read any of these books?
