Book to Screen
Track recent announcements for film, television, and limited-series adaptations.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s TV adaptation of the Dan Brown novel The Secret of Secrets has cast Mamadou Athie (The Drama, Uncorked) and Ben Levi Ross (Ragtime, Elsbeth) in recurring roles. The as-yet untitled series adaptation is said to blend futuristic science with mystical lore. In The Secret of Secrets novel, symbologist Robert Langdon (Morgan Spector) races against ancient […]
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 […]
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is extending its relationship with bestselling novelist Anna Todd with House of Crowns, a series adaptation of her forthcoming romance novel of the same name, sources tell Deadline. Not yet dated for publication, House of Crowns is set at an elite boarding school in Switzerland where royalty and world leaders send their children. When […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sophia Stallone’s Callisto Media and Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions are teaming up on Bourbon & Lies, a romantic suspense series for MGM Television, based on the bestselling book series by Victoria Wilder. Set in Fiasco, Kentucky, Bourbon & Lies follows ex-cop Grant Foxx, a man trying to keep his life quiet after leaving the force, and Laney Young, […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Bonfire of the Vanities is looking for a new home. The high-profile series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel from top showrunner David E. Kelley and Batman director Matt Reeves, which had been set up at Apple TV for development, is no longer going forward there, Deadline has learned. The studio behind it, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Another self-published book is making the leap to the screen: Hulu is developing a drama series based on The Poison Daughter, Sheila Masterson’s dark enemies-to-lovers romantasy novel. Masterson is set to executive produce the adaptation, which is currently looking for a writer. 20th Television is the studio. In The Poison Daughter, every person Harlow […]
EXCLUSIVE: Japanese broadcaster Wowow has announced that it’s producing a live-action series based on Riku Onda’s best-selling mystery novel The Aosawa Murders (Eugenia), set to star Yukino Kishii, known internationally for her role in recent Cannes title All The Lovers In The Night. The six-episode series is scripted by Naoko Adachi (What Did You Eat […]
EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall (The Beauty, The Listeners) has officially been cast as the female lead, Katherine Solomon, on the untitled new Netflix series based on the world of Dan Brown’s novel The Secret of Secrets. She will star opposite her husband, Morgan Spector, who will play the character Robert Langdon. Deadline first revealed Hall was in […]
It’s official: Morgan Spector (Black Rabbit, The Gilded Age), has closed a deal to lead Netflix’s series adaptation of The Secret of Secrets mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown, which comes from the bestselling author and Carlton Cuse (Lost, Five Days At Memorial). Spector will play Robert Langdon, taking over the role played on the […]
Callum Turner surprised the crowd at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday as he introduced the teaser for Neuromancer. During Apple TV’s Hall H panel, the BAFTA winner appeared via video to greet fans and share the first look at the cyberpunk sci-fi series based on the 1984 William Gibson book, premiering January 22 on the […]
Attention crawlers! The voice of popular cat character Princess Donut in Peacock’s live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl has been found. Jeff Hays, a voice narrator and producer behind the LitRPG audiobook series version of Dinniman’s dystopian comedy novel has joined the Peacock and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door television adaptation to bring the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lewis Pullman (Remarkably Bright Creatures, Lessons in Chemistry) is returning to television — and to Apple TV — with a starring role opposite Julia Garner in Guilty Creatures, a thriller drama from director Craig Gillespie, showrunner Stuart Zicherman and Tomorrow Studios. Adapted for the screen by Sarah DeLappe from Mikita Brottman‘s true-crime book Guilty […]