Book to Screen
Track recent announcements for film, television, and limited-series adaptations.
East of Eden, Zoe Kazan’s period miniseries adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel, managed to score top spot on Netflix’s weekly ratings charts, but it did it with only 6.5 million views. The series, which stars Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames, launched October 1, and managed to hold off Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story and […]
Call it Imperfect Woman. The trend of streaming limited series becoming ongoing ones continues with Apple TV ordering a second season of thriller Imperfect Women. Taking a spinoff approach, it will follow one of the limited series’ three titular characters, Eleanor, played by Kerry Washington. Imperfect Women, based on Araminta Hall’s novel, revolved around best […]
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 […]
Stephen King has weighed in on Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of Carrie, and he has a positive review. The supernatural horror miniseries premieres on October 7 on Prime Video with Summer H. Howell in the title role. Ahead of its release, the author of the 1974 novel the series is based on shared his take on […]
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 […]