Book to Screen
Track recent announcements for film, television, and limited-series adaptations.
EXCLUSIVE: Will the real Ben Reilly please stand up? Prime Video is closing in on an order for a new series set in Sony Pictures’ Universe of Marvel Characters based on the popular Clone Saga storyline from the Marvel Comics, more specifically the second Clone Saga story arc that focuses on two Spider-Man clones, Ben […]
EXCLUSIVE: As Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil prepares to cross $200M at the worldwide box office, the film’s producer Carter Swan has a new project to announce — a film adaptation of the Keenspot comic book series The Crying Boy by Niall O’Rourke & Rob Moran. Published in 2024, The Crying Boy follows a grieving widow […]
Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse) has been cast in the leading role of Daniel West in the upcoming Prime Video series Stillwater, from Berlanti Productions, Warner Bros. Television and Skybound Entertainment. The series is based on the Skybound graphic novel by Chip Zdarsky and Ramón K Pérez. Stillwater is a mind-bending horror thriller that […]
EXCLUSIVE: VIZ Media, a leading global producer of anime, manga and original graphic novels, has teamed with The Gotham Group to develop film and television adaptations based on titles from its original intellectual property. The deal includes the company’s acclaimed VIZ Originals graphic novel line and its landmark animated RWBY franchise. VIZ is behind some […]
EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Comic-Con, Amazon MGM Studios has given a formal series greenlight to Stillwater, a horror drama from Greg Berlanti (You, The Flight Attendant) and Carly Wray (Watchmen, Westworld) based on the Skybound graphic novel by Chip Zdarsky and Ramón K Pérez. The project, which has received an eight-episode order, comes from Warner Bros. […]
Disney+ has given a green light to Afterlife with Archie, an hourlong drama series based on the best-selling Archie comic book series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla. It will have a Halloween 2027 premiere on the streamer. The order comes nine months after the project landed at Disney+ with a big script-to-series commitment. Afterlife […]
The conclusion to the Hearstopper TV universe is here in the form of a film, Netflix’s Heartstopper Forever, based on Alice Oseman’s sixth graphic novel in the series of the same name as well as her Nick and Charlie novella written back in 2015. Following three seasons of the show, Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Three of the gang behind Severance have teamed up on a new sci-fi series for Hulu. Adam Scott, who stars as Mark Scout in the Apple series, and writers Ezra Claytan Daniels and Eli Jorné are developing a series based on graphic novel Shifter for the Disney-owned streamer. Shifter is based on the Hachette […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Beauty is on pause at FX. The options on the cast of Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson’s series, based on a comic book series by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, have lapsed, and the actors are moving onto other projects. That includes leads Evan Peters, who is filming Season 13 of American […]