Hello Readers,
I hope you have a wonderful New Year’s Eve planned no
matter how you chose to celebrate. Today I thought we would look at some book
to screen adaptions that happened this year. I will be competently honest I
have seen most of these films but not read the books sorry I know I suck but
the films or TV series have made me add the books to my to buy list.
Books
to Film
Dumplin’
Based On: Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Danielle Macdonald,
Jennifer Aniston and Odeya Rush
Synopsis: Self-proclaimed fat
girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has
always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini
body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend,
Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . . until Will takes a job at
Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot
former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is
surprised when he seems to like her back. Instead of finding new heights
of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So
she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she
can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant—along with several
other unlikely candidates—to show the world that she deserves to be up there as
much as any girl does.
A Wrinkle in Time
Based On: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon |
Synopsis: When Charles Wallace
Murry goes searching through a 'wrinkle in time' for his lost father, he finds
himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge pulsating brain
known as 'It'. How Charles, his sister Meg and friend Calvin find and free his
father makes this a very special and exciting mixture of fantasy and science
fiction, which all the way through is dominated by the funny and mysterious
trio of guardian angels known as Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which.
Love, Simon
Based On: Simon vs. the Homo
Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel
Synopsis: Straight people should have to come out too. And
the more awkward it is, the better.
Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he
is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very
distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds of
complicated. Because, for Simon, falling for Blue is a big deal ... It's a holy
freaking huge awesome deal.
Ready Player One
Based On: Ready Player One by
Ernest Cline
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke and Ben Mendelsohn
Synopsis: It's the year 2044,
and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked
the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Wade Watts escapes
this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a
sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you
can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like
most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies
concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies
with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune
- will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered
throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly
to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of
the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first
puzzle.
The Darkest Minds
Based On: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore and Bradley
Whitford
Synopsis: Ruby is sixteen. She
is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.
A mysterious disease has killed most of America's
children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with
something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control.
Pressured by the government, Ruby's parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal
state 'rehabilitation camp', where she has learned to fear and suppress her new
power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation's only chance for
survival?
Crazy Rich Asians
Based On: Crazy Rich
Asians" by Kevin Kwan
Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh
Synopsis: When Rachel Chu agrees
to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she
envisions a humble family home and time with the man she might one day
marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look
like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars and that she
is about to encounter the strangest, craziest group of people in
existence. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence,
Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jet set; a perfect
depiction of the clash between old money and new money - and a fabulous novel
about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.
A Simple Favour
Based On: A Simple Favour by Darcey Bell
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Blake
Lively and Henry Golding
Synopsis: A woman who seems to have it all rocks her tony
suburb by failing to pick up her son from an after-school playdate and
subsequently going missing under suspicious circumstances. Her best friend and
admirer, a stay-at-home mommy blogger, begins to investigate the disappearance
in the hopes of finding her, but everything changes when her pal seemingly
turns up dead under even more suspicious circumstances. Or is she?
THE HATE U GIVE
Based On: THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall and Russell
Hornsby
Synopsis: A teenage girl juggles
two very different lives for the sake of a good education — she lives in a
poor, predominantly black neighbourhood, commuting to her affluent, white prep
school during the week thanks to a scholarship. She’s well-liked in both communities
and makes the best of her separate worlds, but when her unarmed best friend is
shot to death by a police officer in her town, it sets off a chain of events
that soon becomes a national controversy. As the only witness to the shooting,
she has to grapple with all sides pressuring her on how to act and speak in the
wake of tragedy, the potential backlash is rebuked.
Books
to TV Series
Instinct
Based On: Murder Games by James
Patterson
Creator: Michael Rauch
Cast: Alan Cumming, Bojana Novakovic and Daniel Ings
Synopsis: A serial killer is loose on the streets of
Manhattan.
His victims appear to be total strangers. The only
clue that links the crimes is the playing card left behind at each scene that
hints at the next target. The killer, known in the tabloids as the Dealer, is
baiting cops into a deadly guessing game that has the city on edge. Elizabeth
Needham, the tenacious detective in charge of the case, turns to an unlikely
ally – Dylan Reinhart, a brilliant professor whose book was found along with
the first playing card. As the public frenzy over the Dealer reaches a fever
pitch, Dylan and Elizabeth must connect the clues to discover what the victims
have in common – before the Dealer runs through his entire deck.
A Discovery of Witches
Based On: A Discovery of Witches
(All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness
Cast: Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer and Valarie Pettiford
Synopsis: When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical
manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into
her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the
violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that
human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly
exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of the powerful
witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the
significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them
the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire geneticist.
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