Read the Book - then see the film

Calling all film buffs! Do you want to read a book before you see the film rather than the other way around? If so, we've gathered together most of the movies coming up that are based on books so that you can get in first.

Each title is linked to our catalogue and to the Internet Movie Database so that you can see what's happening with the upcoming movie.

If you are interested in movies based on children's and young adults books try our Kids Read the Book list.
For books based on movies and T.V. that have already come out see Books into Film and TV.

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Albert Schweitzer.: The Nobel Prize winner Albert Schweitzer’s life and career as Africa’s famous jungle doctor is the subject of this biographical drama. It is adapted from James Brabazon’s 1976 book, Albert Schweitzer: a biography. British director Gavin Millar has made the film on location in South Africa and Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe plays Schweitzer with his wife Helene played by American actress Barbara Hershey. Samuel West, Judith Godreche. Armind Rohde (as Albert Einstein) and Jonathan Firth also star.
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Alice in wonderland.: There have been so many adaptations – live, cartoon, musical – over the years that there wouldn’t seem to be room for one more. The next one, however, is Tim Burton’s take on the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter, Crispin Glover is the Knave of Hearts, Anne Hathaway is the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen, Michael Sheen is the White Rabbit, Alan Rickman is the Caterpillar, Stephen Fry is the Cheshire Cat, Christopher Lee is the Jabberwock and Mia Wasikowska is Alice. A big supporting cast includes Lindsay Duncan, Timothy Spall, Tim Pigott Smith and Matt Lucas who plays Tweedledum and Tweedeldee.
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The bang-bang club.: The Bang-Bang Club is a 2000 memoir by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva set in a time of rivalry, comradeship, machismo, and exhilaration experienced by a band of young South African photographers as they documented their country's transition to democracy. South American documentary maker Steven Silver is directing and adapted the book and Ryan Philippe plays Marinovic and Neels Van Jaarsveld plays Silva with Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch as the other photographers. It is filmed in and around Johannesburg.
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Boogie woogie.: Danny Moynihan, who knew the art scene both as an exhibitor and a curator, made his debut as a novelist with a book that slagged off the art scene mercilessly. It’s taken a while to get to the screen but it may be worth it as it has an impressive cast including Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Stellan Sjkarsgard, Joanna Lumley, Heather Graham, Amanda Seyfried, Charlotte Rampling, Christopher Lee, Alan Cumming. Alfie Allen and Jaime Winstone (daughter of Ray).
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Death of a superhero.: New Zealand writer Anthony McCarten has adapted and directed his own 2005 novel for this film, a Kiwi/German co-production. Freddie Highmore is playing the leading character, a 14 year old boy who uses a fictional comic book to distract him from his struggle with leukaemia. Locations are being filmed here with the animated sequences done in Germany. The co-star is a rising German actress, Jessica Schwarz, who has recently appeared in a film of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and a bio-movie of the life of Romy Schneider.
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Eat, pray, love.: Richard Jenkins, the character actor who hit the jackpot with his performance in Eat, pray, love, hits the big time by playing a Texan who meets Julia Roberts in an ashram in the – inevitable! – film version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s phenomenal 2006 bestseller. Ryan Murphy, who created the hit series Nip/tuckis directing this tale of a woman’s self discovery and locations include India, Bali, Rome and New York.
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Eleven minutes.: Mickey Rourke, Alice Braga, and Vincent Cassel are starring in an adaptation of Paulo Coelho's 2003 novel which Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad is directing. Braga stars as a naive girl who swears off romance after a bad experience with her first lover. However, she only swears off the romance part; the girl becomes a high-priced call girl working at a club in Geneva, owned by Rourke's character. Then Cassel gets thrown into the mix, playing a music executive "who gets her hooked on S&M." Filming of this steamy tale takes place in Brazil.
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End zone.: Don De Lillo’s novel, his second, came out in 1972 and it has taken this long to make its way to the screen. It is the story of a young footballer at a West Texas college which is in its first year of integrated teams. Josh Hartnett is playing the lead role with Sam Rockwell and Kat Dennings in the other lead roles. The director is George Ratliff whose previous movie was an odd and unsuccessful psychological thriller called Joshua.
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The extra man.: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who directed the wonderful American splendour and the less than wonderful adaptation of The nanny diaries are adapting and directing this 1998 novel by American humourist Jonathan Ames. Kevin Kline is playing an unsuccessful playwright who works as an escort for rich Manhattan widows and develops a mentor/student relationship with an aspiring young playwright (Paul Dano). A quite diverse supporting cast includes Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Cathy Moriarty and blast from the past Patti D’Arbanville.
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The fantastic Mr Fox: Here we have a stop motion animated children’s movie based on Roald Dahl’s 1970 novel. It features the voices of George Clooney (Mr Fox), Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep (Mrs Fox), Jason Schwartzman and Jarvis Cocker. Wes Anderson, who made quirky live action movies such as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling limited is directing.
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The ghost: It’s scandalous British politics in the forefront in Robert Harris’s bestselling 2007 novel. It tells the story of a former British Prime Minister who’s in the process of writing his memoirs. When the death of a colleague disrupts his life, a ghostwriter is called in to assist him in completing the book. Naturally the ghostwriter digs up some dirt. The badly behaved politician is played by Pierce Brosnan and the ghostwriter by Ewan McGregor in a film directed by Roman Polanski, an odd choice for such a British tale. The P.M.’s wife is played by Olivia Williams and Kim Cattrall is his secretary. Timothy Hutton, James Belushi and Tom Wilkinson are also in the cast.
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I hope they serve beer in hell.: The 2006 book by Tucker Max seems ideal for the crude comedy market that has basically been franchised by Judd Apatow and all. The book is a collection of anecdotal tales about having sex, getting drunk and doing anything that might be considered inappropriate. The film is actually based on one of the stories, The Austin Road Trip, in the book. The film version features Matt Szuchry, who hails from TV series like The Gilmore girls and Friday night lights, is playing Tucker Max with a cast that includes Jesse Bradford, Marika Dominczyk and Traci Lords.
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The informant.: Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book may be an ideal for a contemporary movie in these straightened times (then again, it may be a huge flop as recessions usually favour the blandest escapism) as it chronicles the mid-1990's price-fixing scandal at the Archer Daniels Midland Company, a politically well connected Illinois maker of feed and grain additives. The film is being directed by Steven Soderbergh whose biggest hit was Erin Brockovich, also about a whistleblower. The chief character is played by Matt Damon and his wife by New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey. Scott Bakula and Frank Welker lead the supporting cast.
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The killer inside me.: The 1952 pulp fiction classic by Jim Thompson is one of his most downbeat titles and it was made into a film with Stacy Keach as the small town deputy who seems like the quintessential ordinary guy but is actually psychotic. The new version is directed by the prolific British director Michael Winterbottom and features Casey Affleck in the lead role, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Bill Pullman, Liam Aiken, Ned Beatty and Elias Koteas.
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London boulevard.: The 2001 novel by Irish noir specialist Ken Bruen is the first film as director for William Monahan, a screenwriter best known for the Martin Scorsese movie The departed. It is just the sort of gangsters behaving badly tale that the British film industry has been glutted with since Guy Ritchie played around south of the river (Thames). It’s about a man released from prison for a crime he can’t remember committing who gets work at the home of a fading movie actress (Keira Knightley) while trying to dodge a ruthless lowlife gangster (who else but Ray Winstone). David Thewlis and Anna Friel are also in the cast.
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The long walk: Slawomir Rawicz’s book, originally published in 1956, has been an international bestseller for years. It’s the story of a group of soldiers who engineered a gruelling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942. Australian director Peter Weir (who tackled Gallipoli in his time) is making this one with Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Mark Strong and Saiorse Ronan leading the cast and locations in Bulgaria.
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Mr Nice.: This title will be republished in early 2010. It originally came out in 1996 and it is the autobiography of Howard Marks. Mr Nice he may have been to some but he did spend most of his time travelling the world deceiving people under some 43 aliases, financing his tricks by money laundering and drug smuggling while keeping your spirits up by smoking industrial quantities of dope. He’s played by Rhys Ifans in the film with Chloe Sevigny as his wife. David Thewlis as an IRA boss, Andrew Tiernan and Elsa Pataky.
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Never let me go.: The story of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel follows a young woman who was raised at a private school in the English countryside where children were sheltered from the outside world and told their well-being was crucial for the dystopian society they would eventually enter. When two former students come back into her life, they uncover the truth about their childhood and their lives. The film version is directed by American Mark Romanek whose background is music videos and novelist Alex Garland has adapted the novel for the screen. Keira Knighley leads the cast with three of the more talented younger English actresses: Sally Hawkins (from Mike Leigh’s Happy go lucky), Casey Mulligan (from the much praised An education) and Andrea Riseborough (who played Margaret Thatcher on British T.V. recently). The supporting cast includes Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Garfield and Nathalie Richard.
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New moon.: No need to say much about his except it’s the inevitable adaptation of the second novel in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart return in the leads and this time the director is Paul Weitz.
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Nine.: This musical – book by playwright Arthur Kopit and music and lyrics by Maury Yeston – is an odd choice for a big scale movie as it isn’t the same mass market pleasing piece that Chicago and Hairspray were. It’s based on the classic Fellini arthouse film Eight and a half. It premiered on Broadway in 1982 and then had a turn later in 1983 with Antonio Banderas playing the film director who is having trouble with his next production and reviewing his relationships with the women in his life. Banderas was to repeat his performance in the film but he’s been replaced by Daniel Day-Lewis. The director is Rob Marshall who made Chicago. The women in his life are played by Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson and Sophia Loren.
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Percy Jackson.: The 2005 children’s fantasy novel The lightning thief, first in a series by Rick Riordan, focuses on Poseidon’s 12-year-old half-human son (Logan Lerman), who embarks on a quest across modern-day America to save his mother, return Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt and prevent a deadly war between the gods. A big cast includes Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin McKidd, Melina Kanakaredes and Sean Bean as gods and Catherine Keener as Percy’s mother. The director is Chris Columbus.
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Rape: a love story.: An adaptation of a 2003 novella by Joyce Carol Oates. Much of the work of this incredibly prolific writer (and yes, she does actually write them all herself!) is on the dark side but this is grimmer than most which makes this one a risky proposition for a time when escapism rings the box office bells. It’s about a mother who is the victim of a brutal gang rape, witnessed by her young daughter, and how the assailants stalk her. Maria Bello and Abigail Breslin play mother and daughter with Samuel L. Jackson as a sympathetic policeman and Harold Becker directing.
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The tempest.: There have been a number of adaptations of the Shakespeare play: some traditional, some modernised, some very idiosyncratic such as Derek Jarman’s version which had Elisabeth Welch singing “Stormy weather.” This new version is directed by Julie Taymor who made a recent version of Titus Andronicus as well as the Beatles film Across the universe. The lead character of Prospero becomes Prospera and Helen Mirren takes the role. There is an impressive cast including Dijimon Hounsou (Caliban), Felicity Jones (Miranda), Russell Brand (Trinculo), Ben Whishaw (Ariel), Chris Cooper (Antonio), Alan Cumming (Sebastian), Alfred Molina (Stephano), Geoffrey Rush (Gonzalo), etc.
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Twelve.: Nick McDonell’s first novel came out in 2002 when he was 17. It’s a harsh unflattering portrait of teenage lives of drugs and the rest in the Upper East Side of New York. Joel Schumacher directs a cast including Chace Crawford as the high school dropout turned drug dealer whose life unravels when his cousin is murdered and his best friend is arrested for the crime. Also in the cast are Kiefer Sutherland, Emma Roberts, Ellen Barkin, 50 Cent and Rory Culkin.
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Up in the air.: Walter Kirn’s 2001 novel is a comedy about frequent flying miles. The main character describes himself as a career transition counsellor which means he is getting laid off people to see this as “an opportunity for personal growth.” : this also means it’s a way of getting those laid off not to file lawsuits. The book is all about his time in the air and his transient relationships on stopovers and his desire to accumulate his millionth frequent flier miles. The director of the hugely successful Juno, Jason Reitman is doing the film adaptation and George Clooney is in the lead with Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman and Anna Kendrick supporting.
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Adam resurrected: Yoram Kaniuk’s novel, first published 1969 and first translated 1971, is set in the aftermath of World War II and is about Adam, a former circus clown who was spared from death in the concentration camp and arrives in Israel in 1958 where he becomes the ringleader of a group of holocaust survivors. The film version is directed by American Paul Schrader and the title character is played by Jeff Goldblum. Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer and top German actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Juliane Kohler and Veronica Ferres also star.
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The alchemist: Portugal’s biggest selling novelist penned this work some years back (first translated into English 1993) and it’s had great appeal to those who like stories about people following their dreams. The novel, set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition, deals with a boy whose dreams of a treasure take him on a journey from his home in Spain to Egypt. Laurence Fishburne directs as well as playing the lead and the cast includes Jeremy Irons and Madonna.
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Bag of bones: A novelist (Billy Crudup) gets writer’s block after the death of his wife and moves out to his holiday home. A chance encounter when he rescues a small girl from being run over leads him into a relationship with the child’s mother (Jennifer Garner) a widow whose psychopathic father-in-law will do anything to get custody of the child. Mix in some strange dreams and you have typical Stephen King material and indeed this is an adaptation of his 1998 bestseller.
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Beast of Bataan: Lawrence Taylor’s 1981 book A trial of generals (now out of print) is the source for the latest film from Australian director Fred Schepisi. It’s the story of the trial of the Japanese general executed for his part in the death of thousands of American and Filipino P.O.W.s during the notorious Bataan Death March in 1942. Japanese actor Koji Yakusho plays the general and Hayden Christensen plays the lawyer who defends him. William Hurt and Willem Dafoe also star.
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Black Water Transit: Carsten Stroud’s 2001 novel is a tough dark thriller follows the divergent agendas of crooks, cops and lawyers as they clash over a shipment of illegal firearms, mafia ties and a double homicide. The film is the feature debut of music video director Samuel Bayer and it is a vehicle for action star Vin Diesel. Filmed in Chicago, it co-stars James Franco, Kevin Bacon and Sophie Okonedo.
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men: This is a short story in a 1999 collection of the same name by the highly original American author David Foster Wallace. The film version is directed by John Krasinski who is best known for the American version of The office. In the film Julianne Nicholson plays a woman who decides to cope with a relationship breakdown by interviewing a number of men to find out why men are like they are. The males under the microscope, many of them known from television, include Max Minghella, Timothy Hutton, Ben Shenkman, Lou Taylor Pucci, Josh Charles, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Meloni.
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Cheri: Here’s a new adaptation of the classic novel by Colette which tells the story of the end of a six year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and a pampered young man, Chéri. This has been filmed a number of times before and is also a staple on stage as it offers a terrific role for the older actress. In this version Michelle Pfeiffer plays the main role and she reunites with director Stephen Frears and playwright/scriptwriter Christopher Hampton with whom she made Dangerous liaisons some years back. This time her dangerous liaison is with Rupert Friend who plays Cheri with Kathy Bates, Anita Pallenberg, Harriet Walter and Felicity Jones supporting.
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Cirque du freak: Darren Shan’s enormously successful series The saga of Darren Shan - started back in 1999 with this novel. Shan is the pseudonym of an Irish author named Darren O’Shaughnessy and the stories have as hero a resourceful boy named Darren Shan who visits a mysterious freak show which leads him into the world of vampires. Paul Weitz, who produced the film of Philip Pullman’s The golden compass, is directing the film version with locations in New Orleans. The main character is played by Chris J. Kelly with a cast that includes Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson and Ken Watanabe.
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The Colossus: It takes a long time for some books to get to the screen and the 1999 novel Manly pursuits by South African novelist Ann Harries is a case in point. The novel won the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and concerns the life of Cecil Rhodes, an English imperialist who wanted to subjugate the whole of Africa for the Crown. Harries’s story finds Rhodes on his deathbed in 1899, just months before the beginning of the Boer War, which resulted in English domination of South Africa. Rhodes believes that if he can hear the song of native English birds, his life will be rejuvenated and he will survive to see his imperialist plans through. As a result, he sends for an Oxford ornithologist named Francis Wills, who acts as the story’s narrator. A fictionalised version of some real events, the film stars Ian McKellen as Rhodes, Colin Firth as Wills, Rachel Weisz as a political activist who Wills falls for, and Susan Sarandon. The director is the notable English stage director Sean Mathias.
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Coraline: The market for big animated features is inexhaustible, and this adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2002 novel about a little girl who discovers a secret door which leads to another world where she has a different set of parents and a whole new life, is ideal screen material. As usual there are well known voices for the cartoon characters and they include Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Teri Hatcher and Ian McShane with Dakota Fanning doing the voice for the title character.
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Creation: The 2001 book Annie’s box by Randal Keynes is coming to the screen with real life married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly playing Charles and Emma Darwin. Randal Keynes is the great great grandson of Charles Darwin and the film version will concentrate on the story behind Darwin’s revolutionary theory and how Darwin’s love for his deeply religious wife conflicted with his own growing beliefs. Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberpatch, Bill Paterson, Jeremy Northam and Jim Carter are also in the cast and Jon Amiel directs.
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The damned Utd: David Peace’s excellent 2006 novel is a fictionalised account of Brian Clough’s 44 days in charge of Leeds United Football Club in 1974. It will be interesting to see if a movie about football will do well at the box office since sports movies have not traditionally brought in the crowds. Peter Morgan, who has written most of the recent documentary dramas (The Queen, Longford, Frost/Nixon, etc), has adapted the novel and Michael Sheen, who has done excellent impersonations of Tony Blair, Kenneth Williams, David Frost and others, plays the controversial football manager Clough, with Timothy Spall as his right hand man Peter Taylor, Colm Meaney playing Clough’s bitter rival Don Revie and Jim Broadbent as Derby Chairman Sam Longson.
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Dear John: Like Dan Brown, romantic novelist Nicholas Sparks can do no wrong saleswise and most of his sentimental tearjerkers have ended up on the screen. This one, an adaptation of his 2006 bestseller, follows hot on the heels of the recent adaptation of Nights in Rodanthe. This one is about a soldier home on leave who meets a quiet young woman working for Habitat for Humanity. Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried and Scott Porter are the stars and the director is Lasse Hallstrom who has come down a bit from his previous films like My life as a dog and What’s eating Gilbert Grape.
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Desert flower: The 1998 book by Waris Dirie was a huge bestseller on publication and has taken this long to reach the screen. New York model Liya Kebede plays Dirie whose extraordinary book related how this Somalian woman was circumcised at 5, sold into marriage at 13 but eventually became a famous model and a passionate advocate for stopping female circumcision. American director Sherry Horman, who has made most of her films in Germany, has a strong cast for this British/German co-production, including Juliet Stevenson, Meera Syal, Craig Parkinson and Sally Hawkins (the lead in the Mike Leigh film Happy go lucky).
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Dolan’s Cadillac: Dolan’s Cadillac is a thriller about a man (Wes Bentley) who is distraught when his school teacher wife (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is murdered. She has seen a mobster, Jimmy Dolan (Christian Slater), kill someone in the desert, and before she can testify against him, she is murdered. The widower then plans to get revenge on the Las Vegas mobster and his silver Caddy. This one has been around for some time (it’s an adaptation of a short story in the 1993 collection Nightmares and dreamscapes) and the villainous mobster was a part that had been announced at various points for Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Bacon and Dennis Hopper. Canadian director Jeff Beesley, whose previous work is mostly television, directs.
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Dorian Gray: The classic Oscar Wilde novel The picture of Dorian Gray, originally published in 1890, has been on the screen many times in period and modern adaptations and in every format from big Hollywood movies to porn films. This one is described as a modern take on the classic work (although set in the period) and is directed by Oliver Parker who did two previous Wilde works on film, The importance of being Earnest and An ideal husband (both had mixed reviews). Here the title character who maintains his looks while his portrait moulders away in the attic is played by Ben Barnes and his mentor, Lord Henry Wotton, by Colin Firth with a big supporting cast led by Emilia Fox, Rebecca Hall, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Ben Chaplin, Fiona Shaw and Douglas Henshall.
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Dune: Frank Herbert’s vast novel is going to be filmed again, currently due for 2010, and directed by Peter Berg. The most well-known version of Dune was David Lynch’s love it or hate it 1984 production with Kyle Maclachlan as Paul Atreides and also featuring Sting, however there were also two mini-series of Dune and Children of Dune, in 2000 - 2003.
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Easy virtue: Noel Coward’s 13th play, first produced in 1925, is regarded as a precursor of his much more well known drawing room comedy Private lives. It’s set in the usual setting of the English country house and is about what happens when the prodigal son of the family returns with a glamorous trophy wife in tow. Ben Barnes, from the current Narnia film, and Jessica Biel are the couple and the disapproving parents are played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas. It has been filmed at Engelfield House in Berkshire and in Oxfordshire and is directed by Stephan Elliott, the Australian born director of Priscilla, Queen of the desert.
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Foundation: The first book of Isaac Asimov's classic series was published in 1951. The trilogy has never been filmed despite winning a one off Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. Now New Line are looking to film it with an eye to producing a Lord of the Rings type trilogy.
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From Time to time: Julian Fellowes, novelist and scriptwriter (of Gosford Park) is directing and adapting this new version of the 1958 children’s classic, The children of Green Knowe, by Lucy M. Boston. The story follows a boy on his journey through time to discover his family’s dramatic and mysterious past. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Pauline Collins, Timothy Spall, Harriet Walter and Alex Etel.
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Fugitive Pieces: The 1996 novel by Canadian writer Anne Michaels won the UK-based Orange Prize for Fiction in 1997. It is a highly unusual book that weaves together the stories of two men from different generations whose lives are transformed by the Holocaust. It is told in an elusive and poetic way and wouldn’t be many people’s choice of a novel easy to adapt to the screen. The film, made in Canada with some locations in Greece, is directed by Jeremy Podeswa who has adapted it with the author. The cast is headed by Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija and Rosamund Pike.
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The garden of Eden: Mena Suvari, Jack Huston, Caterina Murino and Richard E. Grant star in "The Garden of Eden," an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel (posthumously published in 1986), directed by John Irvin. Set in the Jazz Age, it’s the story of a successful young American novelist, previously an aviator during WWI, who embarks on an extended honeymoon across Europe with his wife (Suvari). But when she brings in a sultry Italian girl (Murino) to spice things up with erotic games, their relationship comes under pressure.
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The green zone: Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s 2006 book Imperial life in the emerald city is a work of non fiction that has been adapted by the author and director Paul Greengrass and changed somewhat to a fictional tale set in Iraq’s zone of the title, the safe zone where U.S. troops, officials, media and diplomats reside. Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear play CIA officers with Amy Adams as an investigative reporter.
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Hippie hippie shake: The sixties were revisited by Richard Neville in his 1995 book Hippie hippie shake: The dreams, the trips, the trials, the love-ins, the screw ups-- : the sixties which is all about his hectic life of sex, drugs and rock and roll in what was once called Swinging London. It also deals with his time at Oz magazine and the resulting obscenity trial. Cillian Murphy is playing Neville and Sienna Miller plays his girlfriend Louise Ferrier who once posed naked on the cover of Oz with her fashion designer friend Jenny Kee. Artist and underground cartoonist Martin Sharp is played by Max Minghella and Emma Booth plays the even more famous Germaine Greer. Greer has already slagged off the whole project in her Guardian blog. The adaptation has been done by Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) and his wife Beeban Kidron directs.
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I love you Beth Cooper: The 2007 novel by Larry Doyle, a well known scriptwriter for The Simpsons, is a teenage comedy which some critics said is something of an homage to teen movies from the era of scriptwriter John Hughes and all his Breakfast club type movies. It’s about the school nerd who interrupts his graduation speech to utter the words of the title. Beth Cooper is the school’s leading cheerleader and what happens after this incident makes up the book. Paul Rust plays the lead and certainly looks the nerdish part and the dream girl is played by Hayden Panettiere with Chris Columbus, who has done everything from Stepmom to Mrs Doubtfire and one of the Harry Potter’s directing.
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In the electric mist: A detective tracking a serial killer who preys on young women finds his investigation complicated by a glamorous Hollywood starlet and a ruthless crime kingpin in the celebrated French director Bertrand Tavernier’s adaptation of the 1993 James Lee Burke novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones (as series hero Dave Robicheaux), John Goodman, Peter Saarsgard, Ned Beatty, Mary Steenburgen and Kelly Macdonald.
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Incendiary: A woman who’s been having an illicit affair has her life torn apart when her husband and son are killed in a terrorist attack at a soccer match in the powerful 2005 novel by Chris Cleave. The novel, a first, has been adapted to the screen and directed by Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones’s diary), filmed on location in London and it features Michelle Williams, Ewen McGregor and Matthew McFadyen in the lead roles.
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The informers: Australian director Gregor Jordan is going for the ensemble style movie in the tradition of Crash and Short cuts, taking a number of people and intertwining their stories. As it’s an adaptation of a 1994 collection by Bret Easton Ellis the people are either seedy, tragic or appalling and there’s not much redemption or uplift around. It is set in Los Angeles during a week in 1983 and the large cast includes Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Brandon Routh, Ashley Olsen, Lou Taylor Pucci and Jon Foster.
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Inkheart: German writer Cornelia Funke’s 2003 novel is about a bookbinder who has refused to read books to his young daughter ever since the girl’s mother disappeared some years ago. The appearance of a mysterious stranger changes their lives and father and daughter go on the run from a bunch of dastardly villains. The author actually chose Brendan Fraser to play the leading part and the film, made in Britain with locations in Italy, has a large cast including Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, Sienna Guillory, Jim Broadbent and Eliza Bennett
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Jolene: Dan Ireland, who directed the surprisingly successful adaptation of Elizabeth Taylor’s Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, has chosen an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s short story Jolene: a life as his next film. The story appears in Doctorow’s 2004 collection, Sweetland stories, and it follows a decade in the life of Jolene, a young woman who goes through a series of disastrous relationships and dead end jobs in her search for a better life. Jolene is played by Newcomer Jessica Chastain and the supporting cast includes Donald Sutherland as an ex-mobster in Las Vegas, Dermot Mulroney, Denise Richards, Theresa Russell, Michael Vartan and English actor Rupert Friend.
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The Kid: Kevin Lewis grew up on a council estate in South London and he was beaten and starved by his violent mother and his alcoholic father. The book, probably one of the earlier examples of that disturbing genre, the misery memoir, details his dreadful early life and his eventual triumph with the help of a supportive schoolteacher. It is hard to imagine the beautiful Natascha McElhone playing a mother on a council estate but she is the choice for the role. Rupert Friend is playing Lewis as an adult and Nicholas Hoult plays him as a child with Ioan Gruffudd as the teacher. Nick Moran directs.
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Killing Pablo: The story of how Colombian gangster, Pablo Escobar, was assassinated and his Medellin cocaine cartel dismantled by US special forces and intelligence, the Colombian military, and a vigilante gang controlled by the Cali cartel. Current cast includes Christian Bale as Major Steve Jacoby and Javier Bardem as Pablo Escobar.
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Killshot: A married couple are in a real estate office when a pair of criminals walk in bent on extortion. The couple see too much for their own good, the local police can’t do much to help them from the villains on their trail, and they are on the run. It’s a typically taut Elmore Leonard tale, published 1989. Leonard is one of the contemporary crime writers who has had most of his work adapted for film and this one has promise as it is directed by English director John Madden with a cast headed by Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Mickey Rourke and Justin Timberlake.
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The last station: Jay Parini’s 2007 novel gives a fictional account of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy during his last year of life that culminates in Tolstoy’s fatal abandonment of the estate where he spent his entire life. The story is told from the various perspectives of several narrators, among them Tolstoy’s wife, daughter, and doctor. The film version has Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as his long suffering wife (originally these roles were to be played by Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep). His disciple and close friend, Vladimir Chertkov, is played by Paul Giamatti and his secretary, Bulgakov, by James McAvoy with Anne-Marie Duff as Tolstoy’s daughter Sasha.
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The life before her eyes: Laura Kasischke’s 2002 novel is about a woman living a privileged life as an artist and housewife with a supportive husband and a young daughter. This perfect world starts to fall apart because of what happened twenty years ago when she and her best friend were targets in a Columbine-like school shooting and the best friend died. The film version is directed by Vadim Perlman who previously did the adaptation of the Andre Dubus novel House of sand and fog. Uma Thurman is in the lead with Evan Rachel Wood playing the young version, Eva Amurri as the teenage friend, Sherman Alpert and Brett Cullen.
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The lovely bones: Alice Sebold’s 2002 novel was less a bestseller than a phenomenon and this love-it-or-hate it book was always going to be a challenge for a film adaptation. As everyone knows, Peter Jackson is making the film and he, partner Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, have adapted the novel. The main character, Susie Salmon, who narrates the novel from heaven, is played by Saorsie Ronan. Her mother is played by Rachel Weisz and the father was to have been played by Ryan Gosling who was replaced just before filming began by Mark Wahlberg. Susan Sarandon plays the grandmother, Stanley Tucci is the man who has murdered Susie. Two young New Zealand actresses, Rose McIver (as Susie’s sister) and Carolyn Dando, are also in the cast. The film is being made on location in Pennsylvania and New Zealand.
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Mao’s last dancer: Cunxin Li’s 2003 book has been an international bestseller. Plucked from poverty, Li Cunxin was brought to Beijing to learn ballet. Later, after defecting from China, he became world renowned as a principal dancer in both the Houston and the Australian Ballets. Jan Sardi, who wrote the script for the David Helfgott film Shine, has adapted the book and Bruce Beresford is directing on location in China and Australia. Chi Cao, principal dancer in the Royal Birmingham Ballet, plays the leading role and others in the cast include Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Thompson, Amanda Schull, Bruce Greenwood and Penne Hackforth-Jones.
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Miracle at Saint Anna: The 2002 novel by James MacBride, author of the bestselling memoir, The colour of water, is based on a true but little known tragedy that happened in a Tuscan village during World War II. The main characters are three African American and one Puerto Rican soldiers who are trapped behind enemy lines and take refuge among a group of villagers. Spike Lee is directing the film version with a big cast including Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, James Gandolfini, John Turturro, D.B. Sweeney and Valentina Cervi.
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My last five girlfriends: Here’s an adaptation (described as “loosely based on”) of Alain de Botton’s 1993 novel Lessons in love. The film has been ages coming to the screen as it has been through a lot of financial backers. It’s a romantic comedy directed by Julian Kemp who comes from British T.V. and Brendan Patricks, also from television, is in the lead with the girlfriends played by Naomie Harris, Cecile Cassel (daughter of the late veteran French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel), Jane March, Edith Bukovics and Kelly Adams with British T.V. personality Johnny Ball and Michael Sheen also in the cast.
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My sister’s keeper: Previously Jodi Picoult’s novels have ended up as television movies which is often the destination of issues based fiction. This one will be a big screen production and it will be interesting to see if it breaks through and attracts the same large audience that read her novels. The story concerns a teenage girl who had been conceived as a genetic match for her sister with cancer. The girl’s decision to fight for the rights of her own body lead to a court case in which her mother has to defend herself. Abigail Breslin plays the girl and Sofia Vassilieva is her sister. Cameron Diaz plays the mother and Alec Baldwin the girl’s lawyer with Jason Patric and Joan Cusack also in the cast.
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The mysteries of Pittsburgh: Set in industrial Pittsburgh in the mid-eighties, this adaptation of Michael Chabon’s 1988 novel, his fiction debut, chronicles the last summer of Art Bechstein’s (Jon Foster) youth. Art meets the witty and handsome Arthur Lecomte, who then introduces Art to the equally stunning Jane (Sienna Miller), her boyfriend, the legendary Cleveland (Peter Sarsgaard), and worldly, exotic and slightly eccentric Phlox (Mena Suvari). The film version has apparently removed the character of Arthur from the mix. In the course of one summer, this group of colourful friends dominate Art’s life as he comes to terms with life, love and his sexuality. It has taken a long time for the novel to come to the screen and his later novel, Wonder boys, beat it by years.
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The new daughter: In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays a solo father who moves to a farm with his two kids after a divorce. Soon, his daughter (Ivana Baquero) starts behaving ominously and the father begins to suspect a mysterious burial mound in a nearby field may have something to do with it. Spanish director Luis Berejo is making this adaptation of the short story of the same name by John Connolly which is in his 2004 collection Nocturnes.
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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The first of the Alexander McCall Smith novels that also have this series title came out in 1998 and has been on the drawing board for some time. Anthony Minghella has filmed the novel on location in Botswana and has given the plum part of Precious Ramotswe to singer Jill Scott in her film debut. Her secretary, Grace Makutsi, is played by Anika Noni Rose (from Dreamgirls) with Lucian Msamatias Precious Ramotswe’s suitor.
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The other man: Richard Eyre, the well known English theatrical director, is directing (and adapting, along with playwright Charles Wood) this adaptation of the short story of the same name by Bernhard Schlink (which is in the collection Flights of love). The story centres around a man who is convinced his wife is cheating on him and sets out to track down her possible lover. A first rate cast is led by Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas and Romola Garai.
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The Oxford Murders: This bestselling novel, first translated in 2005 from the Spanish (Crimenes imperceptibles, 2003), by Guillermo Martinez takes its readers into the higher realms of mathematics and intertwines it with a murder mystery. It has a young Argentinian maths student coming to Oxford where he meets one of his idols, a world famous mathematician. A series of murders occur, each accompanied by a cryptic message which must be deciphered by the mathematical duo before the killer strikes again. The film version, made on location in Oxford and London has Elijah Wood as the student and John Hurt as the professor. Spanish actress Leonor Watling, Anna Massey, Julie Cox and Jim Carter are also in the cast and this British/French/Spanish co-production is directed by Alex de la Iglesia, the Spanish director of a series of suspense thrillers.
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Personal effects: Rick Moody’s novel The ice storm was successfully made into a film some years back by Ang Lee. This one is an adaptation of the short story Mansion on the hill which is in the 2000 short story collection Demonology. The story concerns two strangers, a man and a woman, who have both lost family members to murder and who are brought together by their respective court cases. The couple are played by Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher. Moody and director David Hollander have adapted the story and the supporting cast is led by Kathy Bates.
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The possibility of an island: Michel Houellebecq is possibly France’s most controversial author and his determined to shock novels have had international success despite, or perhaps because of, accusations of sexism and racism being hurled at him. Two of them have already been filmed to mixed success and this one, based on the 2005 novel, first translated into English 2006, is the usual misanthropic mixture, this time featuring a truly bilious comedian and a cloning cult that resembles the real life Raelians. Houellebecq is directing and adapting the novel himself and the French cast is headed by Benoit Magimel, Patrick Bauchau and the glamorous Arielle Dombasle, famous as much for being the wife of France’s top popular philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.
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The private lives of Pippa Lee: The 2008 novel by Rebecca Miller (daughter of Arthur and wife of Daniel Day-Lewis) is about a woman pushing fifty who is married to a man about thirty years older. When he decides – as many an affluent older American seems to do – that the future is to be found in a retirement home, the woman of the title gets alarmed and remembers the life she has led up to that point where she was the kind of woman who’d never think of ending up in a retirement home. Pippa is played as an adult by Robin Wright Penn with Madeline McNulty as child Pippa and Blake Lively as her in teenage years. An impressive cast includes Alan Arkin as the husband, Julianne Moore, Monica Bellucci, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello and Winona Ryder. Miller has adapted her own novel as well as directing.
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Push: The first novel by singer and poet Sapphire came out in 1996 and twelve years later a film version appears. It’s the story of a Harlem teenager who’s been abused by both parents and grown up poor, illiterate, overweight, angry and unloved. She is mentored by a kindly teacher and her thoughts are recorded in a journal and her hard won literacy results in poetry and a life that is improved by support groups. Lee Daniels, whose only previous movie was Shadowboxer, directs and Gabourey Gabby’ Sidibe, a Harlem resident who had been working towards a degree in psychology, makes her film debut in the lead. Paula Patton plays her mentor and comedian/reality show host Mo’nique plays her mother with Lenny Kravitz making his film debut as a kindly nurse.
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Radio Free Albemuth: Philip K. Dick’s novel was not published in his lifetime. He died in 1982 and this one didn’t make it into print until 1987. In this semi-autobiographical story Alanis Morissette plays a woman who shows up as a glamorous singer in the vision of a record label executive named Nick (Jonathan Scarfe). In reality, she’s an ordinary woman in unexpected remission from lymphoma who, after appearing in Nick’s visions, gets a job as his secretary. She becomes his soul mate thanks to the pair’s shared spirituality and visions. The film is a low budget independent production that marks the directing debut of John Alan Simon and the supporting cast includes Shea Whigham, Katheryn Winnick and Frances Fisher.
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Rain fall: Actress Kyoko Hasegawa is appearing with British actor Gary Oldman in the thriller “Rain Fall,” the first of Barry Eisler’s books to be filmed. Eisler’s six books (this one was first published in 2002) revolve around John Rain, a Japanese-American freelance assassin and former CIA operative. Rain will be played by Japanese actor Kippei Shiina while Oldman plays the head of the CIA’s Tokyo office. The film is being predominantly shot in Japanese with only 15% of the dialogue in English.
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The Restraint Of Beasts: The 1998 novel by Magnus Mills was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. The novel is a very clever black comedy about two Scottish labourers who travel south to England for a job mending fences. It’s narrated by “the foreman” who is keen on efficiency but won’t get it from his employees. The film version is directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and produced by Tanya Seghatchian, the duo who made the excellent screen version of the Helen Cross novel My summer of love. The cast is headed by Rhys Ifans, Ben Whishaw, Warren Clarke and Eddie Marsan.
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The road: Cormac McCarthy has been doing well lately with the very successful film version of No country for old men and a low budget version of his early novel Outer dark on the way. The 2006 novel The road became the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner and a bestseller and this was all before Miss O. Winfrey waved her magic wand at the book and sent it even higher in the charts. Pretty good for a dystopian tale. It’s set in a post apocalyptic utterly ravaged and lawless future America where a father has to take his son to safety. Australian director John Hillcoat is behind this one and Kodi Smit-McPhee, the young Aussie actor from Romulus my father is the son. The father and mother are played by Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron with a large supporting cast that includes Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall.
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The ruins: Scott Smith’s 2006 novel is a violent action thriller with a strong horror component about a bunch of tourists in Mexico who run into trouble with some sinister locals and even more sinister vegetation. Former fashion photographer Carter Smith directs a film that enthusiastically promises a lot of blood and gore and stars Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Jonathan Tucker and Laura Ramsey.
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The rum diary: Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s 1998 novel The rum diaries, this is the story that is taken from the early days Thompson spent as a journalist at a newspaper in San Juan in the 1950s. The film stars Johnny Depp, Josh Hartnett, Benicio Del Toro and Nick Nolte.
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The secret of Moonacre: A classic children’s novel from 1946, Elizabeth Goudge’s The little white horse, was first filmed for television as a 1967 series but this is its first outing on the big screen. Gabor Csupo, who has previously produced children’s fare in the Rugrats and Wild Thornberrys series but also directed the recent successful film of Bridge to Terabithia, is directing this adaptation of the story about an orphan girl who travels to Moonacre Manor in the West Country where she discovers she is the last Moon princess and is charged with rescuing her kingdom from ruin. Maria is played by Dakota Blue Richards and the supporting cast includes Natascha McElhone, Ioan Gruffudd, Juliet Stevenson and Tim Curry.
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Shutter Island: Dennis Lehane has already had two novels successfully filmed: Mystic river and Gone baby gone. This third adaptation of his work is quite different in that the 2003 novel Shutter Island is a standalone work a long way removed from his tales of crime and police in Boston. It’s a gothic tale set on the island of the title which houses a psychiatric hospital from which a patient who has committed a number of murders escapes. To add to the drama a hurricane is raging as police search the island and to cap it all the hospital (this is all taking place in 1954) may be up to no good. It’s a thriller that relies on a surprise revelation to rival the likes of the The sixth sense. It’s an odd choice for director Martin Scorsese and it has a big name cast including Leonardo Di Caprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Max Von Sydow, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson.
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The soloist: Based on the true story of musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers, who developed schizophrenia during his second year at Juilliard and ended up homeless on the streets of downtown LA where he performs the violin and the cello. The 2008 book, by Steve Lopez, has been filmed on location in L.A. by British director Joe Wright. In a fascinating article in New Yorker (vol. 64, no 12 – 5/5/08 – available for library customers on our Ebscohost database), Wright, the well known British director, apparently stipulated that he wanted to have real homeless people involved in the locations for the film. Jamie Foxx plays Ayers and Robert Downey Jr plays author Steve Lopez with Catherine Keener and Tom Hollander supporting.
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Snow Angels: An adaptation of Stewart O’Nan’s first novel, published 1994. The narrator of the novel has been haunted by the murder of a former babysitter which happened when he was in high school. The novel examines what led up to the death. Sam Rockwell, Amanda Peet and Emily Mortimer play the leads.
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Tenderness: Russell Crowe is starring in this adaptation of the 1997 YA novel by Robert Cormier, playing a policeman who tries to unravel the complicated past of a teenager (played by Jon Foster) who may have murdered his family and who has a dangerous relationship with a runaway girl (played by Sophie Traub). Laura Dern also stars and the film is directed by John Polson, an Australian now based in the U.S.
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Therese Raquin: There’ve been earlier versions of Emile Zola’s classic novel, first published in English in 1881, about a passionate woman and the love affair that ruins her. In this version Therese is played by German actress Franka Potente, her lover Laurent by Joseph Fiennes, the husband they murder by Ewen Bremner. The supporting cast is headed by Glenn Close.
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Under the mountain: In this adaptation of Maurice Gee’s 1979 novel, Sam Neill heads the cast with talented newcomers Sophie McBride and Tom Cameron playing teenage twins who battle alien forces hidden beneath the volcanoes. Oliver Driver plays the dark and frightening Mr Wilberforce and filming was done in Auckland and on Rangitoto Island. Jonathan King is directing and c-scripting (with Jonathan Grainger) and Weta Workshop is involved with the special effects. There is an original score to the movie by Victoria Kelly, performed by the NZSO.
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The vintner’s luck: Elizabeth Knox’s 1998 novel, which won two Montana awards back in 1999, has taken a long time to get to the screen but expectations are high with Niki Caro directing. The story, about a 19th century winemaker in France and his lifelong relationship with an angel, is sufficiently unusual to be both a risk and a potential hit. Location filming has been done in France and in New Zealand and the international cast includes Belgian actor Jeremie Renier as the vintner, Keisha Castle-Hughes as his wife, French actor Gaspard Ulliel as the angel, and American actress Vera Farmiga.
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Where the wild things are: The Maurice Sendak picture book classic from 1963 about Max, the little boy who creates his own world of a forest inhabited by the wild things of the title, has been adapted for the screen by novelist Dave Eggers. The film, directed by Spike Jonze, is a mixture of live action, CGI and animatronics and was partly made in Australia. The cast includes Max Records (as Max), Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Williams some in the flesh, some voicing characters.
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The women: Claire Boothe Luce’s play was first produced in 1936 and has been an enduring hit with actresses because it gives its all women cast good lines and endless bitchery so it is a play that encourages over the top diva style acting. It was first made into a movie in 1939 with Rosalind Russell and Joan Crawford, remade for television in 1955 with Mary Astor and Paulette Goddard, called The opposite sex in 1956 with Joan Collins and June Allyson, filmed as Women in New York by dour German director Rainer Maria Fassbinder in 1977 and now it is being brought to the screen by Diane English who comes from American television comedy, most notably Murphy Brown. The cast includes Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing and Candice Bergen.
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