November 19, 2011 
An adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi book Ender’s Game is finally really looking like a reality, as the first piece of casting news came in courtesy of Deadline on Thursday night. Asa Butterfield, the 14-year-old star of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, has been offered the lead role of Ender Wiggin for the film.
November 18, 2011 
The first trailer for The Hunger Games took the Internet by storm on Monday following its debut on Good Morning America, and with good reason. It’s an intense, rousing look at a bulk of the first half of the story that keeps scenes from the actual games a surprise for later previews and the movie itself. Below check out the trailer for the adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best selling YA book.
November 17, 2011 
It’s felt like forever since the Snow White movies started vying for our attention. They went head-to-head this summer when both films – Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror – released first look photos within days of each other during Comic-Con. Now the competition for who’s fairest of them all continues with the release a trailer for each film, again within days of each other. Take a look at the previews for these new takes on the classic fairy tale below.
November 17, 2011 
Hi Blog. Been too long, hasn’t it? Yes, far too long. If you grow up to have abandonment issues, I’ll know it’s all my fault. You deserve better. Because you have been so good to me, Blog. You’ve given me the opportunity to gush about amazing books and interview awesome directors and lash out on one of the most popular franchises in the world.
August 27, 2011 
The film adaptation of Ken Grimwood’s 1987 time travel novel Replay has received its latest blow, as Robert Zemeckis canceled his plans to direct, Deadline reported on Thursday. After becoming attached to Replay in April, the filmmaker exited the project following committing to Flight, a drama starring Denzel Washington. Warner Bros. is still developing the Replay adaptation with Jason Smilovic’s script and is on the search for a new director.
August 27, 2011 
Universal Studios has dropped their developing film adaptation of Wicked Lovely, based on the fantasy novel by Melissa Marr in what could have become their own Harry Potter/Twilight/Hunger Games-like franchise. The book is the first of a five-part series about a teen girl who has the rare ability to see faeries – a dangerous and seductive species in Marr’s vision. The project is now in turnaround, so we’ll have to wait and see if another studio picks it up. Heat Vision reported the news on Thursday, saying that Universal realized “the project doesn’t suit their needs.”
August 27, 2011 
The CW is back in the business of superheroes, as Deadline reported late this week that the network is developing an adaptation of DC Comics’ Deadman. The TV adaptation will be written and executive produced by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke.
August 23, 2011 
Brace yourselves, Neil Gaiman fans – the latest news in the development of HBO’s adaptation of Gaiman’s American Gods is one worth getting really excited about. Gaiman will write the pilot, the finale and possibly some more episodes in between for the TV series. The British author announced the news at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday, as reported by The Guardian.
August 23, 2011 
The odds have definitely been in favor of the fans of The Hunger Games this summer as the film adaptation’s makers have supplied us with photos, a motion poster and even some (non-motion) posters for you to take home if you were one of the lucky fans who made it to San Diego for Comic-Con last month. Now we have less than a week until we get the next best thing to the movie itself: footage from the film, which will debut at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.
August 22, 2011 
As it’s shaping up to be quite the highly anticipated project, Cloud Atlas, based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, now has a production start date of mid-September. The Hollywood Reporter delivered the news, along with a few other updates, including that the budget will be lower than previously announced and how co-directors Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer are expected to divide up the work.
August 22, 2011 
With the big news of last week that Ridley Scott would be returning to direct another Blade Runner film, the world of sci-fi fans exploded with a mixture of excitement and skepticism. Here TBMB provides its two cents on the in-development follow-up to the 1982 adaptation of Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
August 17, 2011 
Some of the best of fractured fairy tales and re-imagined classics has come from writers asking themselves, “What would the other side of the story look like?” And henceforth sprung wild successes like Wicked and upcoming major projects like Maleficent. Next up adventure in walking a mile in the minor character’s shoes? Romeo and Juliet as told from the point of view of Rosaline, Romeo’s object of affection before he met Juliet. The film adaptation of the novel that will tell Rosaline’s story when it hits shelves in May, When You Were Mine, is in development at Fox 2000 Pictures. Vulture reported today that Keira Knightley is in talks to star in the adaptation, based on what will be the debut novel of Rebecca Serle.
August 17, 2011 
The world of the romantic comedy seems very dry to me lately. We all know the story: guy meets girl, guy dates/sleeps with girl, guy starts to fall for girl, guy loses girl, guy gets girl back, guy might even lose girl and get her back one more time, and finally guy makes a major change in his life and kisses girl (most likely in the rain or at someone else’s wedding).Thankfully, there’s a recent crop of films like (500) Days of Summer, Crazy Stupid Love and One Day that are starting to pull away from said formulaic genre. I love me a good-and-sappy rom-com, and One Day delivers both a healthy dose of sap plus a unique storytelling experience for its audience.
August 17, 2011 
When you’re a fan of a book and you finally have the opportunity to see its story adapted to the big screen, there are few things more devastating than seeing your favorite characters realized all wrong. Casting and an understanding of the character by everyone involved are essential to doing justice to the source material. Fortunately for fans of David Nicholls’ One Day, the team behind the film got that all just right: romantic leads Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess as Emma and Dexter are everything you could hope for. Unfortunately, though, the adaptation falls short in some areas as the plot, in a screenplay written by Nicholls himself, feels like it’s going through the motions.
August 13, 2011 
This isn’t exactly adaptation news, but anyone interested the crossroads of novels and film should check it out. N.D. Wilson, author of the YA 100 Cupboards trilogy, has a new book series coming out soon, and he’s promoting the first one, Ashtown Burials #1: The Dragon’s Tooth, with a cinematic trailer, first released last week on EW.com. Starring in the clip is Super 8 actor Joel Courtney.
