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Book to Screen's 100 Greatest Film Adaptations
Our editorial ranking of 100 outstanding films adapted from books and other published works.
#1
The Godfather
1972
#2
The Godfather Part II
1974
#3
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
#4
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
#5
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
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When In Rome
Based on When In Rome
Rebelle Media and MGM Television have acquired the rights to adapt Sarah Adams’ book series Rebel Moon for the small screen. Co-Founder of Rebelle Media Amanda Palley announced the news at San Diego Comic-Con in the “Romance on the Big Screen: Why It’s About Damn Time” panel Thursday. “You guys know this series, correct?” cofounder […]
Cold Moon Rising
Based on Cold Moon Rising
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Peddle, the director behind The Aggressives and Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, has signed on to adapt the Southern crime thriller Cold Moon Rising by North Carolina author Michael Sledge. Cold Moon Rising is Sledge’s debut novel. The book tells the story of a violent home invasion that spirals into a web […]
Drawn Together
Based on Marfil
Mercedes Ron’s hot streak on Prime Video is continuing. Drawn Together (Enfrentados: Marfil) has gone straight in at No. 1 on the streamer’s viewing top 10. The Prime Video original tops both the overall and non-English-language rankings. Ron is no stranger to success on Prime Video; the adaptations of her Culpables books are the streamer’s […]
Throttled
Based on Throttled
EXCLUSIVE: Spanish-American actress Nicole Wallace has landed the female lead opposite Off Campus‘ Josh Heuston in Throttled, Amazon MGM’s romance based on the first book in Lauren Asher’s bestselling Dirty Air series. Wallace will play Maya Alatorre, an ambitious young woman who joins her brother on the racing circuit and falls into a forbidden, high-stakes […]
Smokeshow
Based on Smokeshow
EXCLUSIVE: Meghann Fahy, the two-time Emmy-nominated star of Sirens and The White Lotus, has inked a deal to star in Smokeshow, a new limited series based on the upcoming novel by Catriona Stewart, which has landed with SK Global and David E. Kelley Productions following a highly competitive bidding war. The package is set to […]
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Feral
Based on Feral
EXCLUSIVE: For the first time since her big breakout moment with Baby Reindeer, the darkly comedic stalker thriller turned water cooler phenomenon, Jessica Gunning is returning to Netflix. Gunning is one of the four leads of the streamer’s Feral, a darkly comedic thriller series based on the 1987 novel by Shirley Conran, sources tell Deadline. Reps for Netflix […]
Lonesome Dove
Based on Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry’s classic Lonesome Dove novel is returning to television as a Netflix series. The streamer has greenlighted the Western drama from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart, co-showrunners of Netflix’s upcoming East of Eden limited series, and Teton Ridge Entertainment. Independent studio Teton Ridge Entertainment, which focuses on American West stories, announced in February that it […]
Throttled
Based on Throttled
Amazon MGM Studios has taken worldwide rights to Throttled, a feature adaptation of Lauren Asher’s motorsport racing romance novel, to star Josh Heuston of the hit romantic drama series, Off Campus. The first book in Asher’s Dirty Air series, Throttled tells the story of an ambitious young woman who joins her brother on the racing circuit and falls into […]
Better Than the Movies
Based on Better Than the Movies
Latest in the lineup of Netflix romantic comedies based on books is the feature adaptation of Lynn Painter’s best-selling book, Better Than The Movies. Painter’s novel came out five years ago, but its path to development has unfolded relatively smoothly and speedily since the adaptation found a director and home at Netflix. For everything we […]
The Kane Chronicles
Based on The Kane Chronicles
Disney is bringing more of Rick Riordan’s expansive mythological universe to life. A live-action series adaptation of The Kane Chronicles is currently in development at Disney+. Riordan will create the series with Angela Robinson (How to Get Away with Murder, True Blood, The L Word). The Kane Chronicles is a trilogy — The Red Pyramid, The […]
The Kane Chronicles
Based on The Kane Chronicles
Disney is bringing more of Rick Riordan‘s expansive mythological universe to life. A live-action series adaptation of The Kane Chronicles is currently in development at Disney+. Riordan will create the series with Angela Robinson (How to Get Away with Murder, True Blood, The L Word).
The Fastest Man In The World
Based on The Fastest Man In The World
EXCLUSIVE: A biopic about the life of four-time Paralympic gold medalist Tony Volpentest, titled The Fastest Man In The World, is in the works, with Kelli McNeil-Yellen signed on to write the screenplay and Alexander Yellen to direct. Production on the film is slated to begin in April 2027 in Kansas City, Missouri. Based on […]
Her Hidden Fire
Based on Her Hidden Fire
EXCLUSIVE: Irish production company Great Island has optioned Clíodhna O’Sullivan’s bestselling romantasy novel Her Hidden Fire for a young adult series adaptation. The eight-part series will follow Éadha, a servant who has learned to survive by remaining unseen in a stratified world where magic is fuelled by enslaved ‘Fodder.’ Éadha hides her own power that she generates from within, but when […]
Marcelo in the Real World
Based on Marcelo in the Real World
EXCLUSIVE: Eva Longoria and Eugenio Derbez are starring in Marcelo in the Real World, with Lucia Puenzo directing. Produced by Zeta Studios and Elefantec Global, the film is an adaptation of Francisco X. Stork’s novel. Longoria and Derbez star alongside Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Mathew Borrero and Ema Giménez Zapiola. Production is getting underway in Uruguay and […]
Return To The Motherfreaking Fun Factory
Based on Return To The Motherfreaking Fun Factory
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Blackstone Publishing’s October 6th publishing of Return to the Motherfreaking Fun Factory, a new horror novel by Neil Kleid, Russell Hollander’s North of Moorpark has optioned rights for feature development. Here’s the book summary: Ten years ago, five children were lured into the dark machinations of a twisted, whimsical toymaker, forced to compete for […]
Not a Sound
Based on Not a Sound
EXCLUSIVE: In March 2005, one freshman ABC drama, David E. Kelley’s Boston Legal, wrapped its season in the Sunday 10 PM slot to make room for another rookie, Grey’s Anatomy starring Ellen Pompeo, which launched in the time period a week later. Twenty-one years after that handover, Pompeo and Kelley have come together for a […]
The Troop
Based on The Troop
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Primal, the studio’s new genre label led by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, has acquired rights to The Troop, the 2014 horror novel by Nick Cutter, enlisting Chris Basler to pen the feature adaptation. The Troop follows a troop of boys who, while on their annual scout camping trip, encounter an intruder who unleashes something far […]
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