Book to Screen: A Novel by Caroline Kepnes ―

Now a Lifetime drama series: YOU
Based on Caroline Kepne's best-selling novel of the same name, "You" is a 21st-century love story that asks, "What would you do for love?" When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. Using the internet and social media as his tools to gather the most intimate of details and get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes an obsession as he quietly and strategically removes every obstacle - and person - in his way. Season 1: YOU Episode List

Be Prepared: YOU

“Hypnotic and scary.” —Stephen King

“I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.”
—Lena Dunham

From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of 2014, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age.

When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.

There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City.
She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.

As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.

A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that’s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King’s Misery.

YOU: "Be prepared to be chilled to the bone by this book.
And remember to change your passwords, check your locks, and close the drapes."
―Vox Libris

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web / The Past Never Forgets

The Girl in the Spider’s Web,
based on the novel by David Lagercrantz

This is the fifth film adaption of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series, about world-class hacker Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. It’s based on the fourth book in the series, the first not to have been written by Larsson, but it’s also reboot of the David Fincher’s series of American adaptations, which only ever got around to adapting the first book. In short, it’s a whole new start, so don’t worry about it! The Crown’s Claire Foy takes over as Lisbeth, with Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez directing.
The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium Series #4)

Chapter 1

Computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber criminals and corrupt government officials.

The film is a soft-reboot with different actors, is a sequel to David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and the second installment in the American-produced Millennium film series.

The picture stars Claire Foy, taking over the role of Lisbeth Salander from Rooney Mara, and follows Salander as she tries to rescue and exact vengeance for battered women. Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield, Sylvia Hoeks, and Stephen Merchant also appear in the film. It is scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures Releasing in Sweden on October 26, 2018, and in the United States on November 9, 2018. Cited: Wiki
The Past Never Forgets:
What did you think of this second trailer?
'I do not envy this film. For us film nerds, David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was the definitive take on the character of Lisbeth Salander and the dark, twisted world she lives in. With The Girl in the Spider’s Web, we’re essentially fast-forwarding through all the drama that followed that first film, and are left with what many fans think is an inferior take on the character.' — Joseph Jammer Medina, LMR

Girl in the Spider's Web movie

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Golden Globe® winner Claire Foy returns as cult figure Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider's Web from the Millennium book series. Watch the trailer!

The Past Never Forgets: #GirlintheSpidersWeb
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Cronin novel: 'The Passage' to Adaptation

The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin
Published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

The Passage debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, and remained on the list for seven additional weeks. It is the first novel of a completed trilogy;
the second book The Twelve was released in 2012, and the third book The City of Mirrors released in 2016. The novel and its sequels were to be adapted into a film trilogy; however, they will now be written for television. Source: Wiki

'The Passage' to Adaptation: How Close It Will Keep to Books
The Passage has not had a simple road to adaptation — and, per the Fox drama's producers and author Justin Cronin, its exact course is still a conversation.

Cronin's 2010 novel, the first in a three-part series of the same name, was originally eyed as a feature before ultimately getting pinned down as a TV project in 2016.
There was a pilot, there were reshoots, and when the first trailer finally screened at the network's 2018 upfront, it became clear that the complicated, time-jumping piece of apocalyptic science fiction was not going to look the way many readers thought it might onscreen. Showrunner Liz Heldens and author Justin Cronin say they're "slowing down the story." Citation:  Michael O'Connell  via The Hollywood Reporter

Story Line
The Passage begins in the near future and details an apocalyptic and, later, post-apocalyptic world that is overrun by vampire-like beings who are infected by a highly contagious virus.

What begins as a project to develop a new immunity-boosting drug based on a virus carried by an unnamed species of bat in South America eventually becomes the virus that transforms the world. The novel begins in 2016 and spans more than ninety years, as colonies of humans attempt to live in a world filled with superhuman creatures who are continually on the hunt for fresh blood.

Concept Development
Cronin first began developing his ideas for The Passage in 2006 when his daughter asked him to write a book about a "girl who saves the world." He set out to write a book that combined elements of multiple genres, most predominantly horror, science fiction, and fantasy.
Citation: Wiki

Justin Cronin: Passage Trilogy
“Justin Cronin’s Passage trilogy is remarkable for the unremitting drive of its narrative, for the breathtaking sweep of its imagined future, and for the clear lucidity of its language. The City of Mirrors is a thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”—Stephen King
Enter The Passage

Based on author Justin Cronin’s best-selling trilogy of the same name,
THE PASSAGE is an epic, character-driven thriller written by Liz Heldens (“Friday Night Lights”). Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Ridley Scott (“The Martian,” “Gladiator”) and writer/director Matt Reeves (“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Cloverfield”), THE PASSAGE Series: TV Adaptation

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The Passage / Justin Cronin: In 2010, Justin Cronin’s The Passage was a phenomenon.
The unforgettable tale that critics and readers compared to the novels of Cormac McCarthy, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood became a runaway bestseller and enchanted readers around the globe. Featured Articles

“The Passage” doesn’t so much end the pause.
Cronin shows us enough of the future to suggest that life on earth may eventually return to normal. “God invented Iowa, so people could leave it and never come back.”

Now a major motion picture: The Darkest Minds

By Alexandra Bracken: The Darkest Minds (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Book one in the blockbuster Darkest Minds series-now with key art from the major motion picture. In theaters August 2018!

Movie Tie-in Novel

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most of America's children, but she and the others emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.

While they journey to find the one safe haven left for kids like them-East River-they must evade their determined pursuers, including an organization that will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. But as they get closer to grasping the things they've dreamed of, Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living. The group comes to realize they can foment a rebellion and exact revenge upon those in power who have tortured their generation. #TheDarkestMinds:
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Alexandra Bracken is a New York Times bestselling American author.

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Classic Books Hollywood Should Adapt Into Sitcoms

A Brian Boone post via B&N Reads

Not every TV show was dreamed up by some people on their laptops in Hollywood. Many of today’s most popular shows have literary origins. Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, for example, and Westworld is a thorough and thoughtful expansion of a kind of pulpy early ‘70s adventure novel by Michael Crichton. 

 

But those are high-budget, prestige cable dramas with relatively small audiences.

What really brings in the viewers are broad, laugh-track-sweetened sitcoms, like The Big Bang Theory and Mom. Those aren’t based on books, but that doesn’t mean an ’80s-style sitcom couldn’t have a high fallutin’ inspiration. (There’s a show on right now called Superior Donuts that’s based on a play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts, after all.) There are plenty of novels out there that would make fantastic, cheesy, classic-style sitcoms. After all, they’re already episodic in nature and explore the kinds of problems that sitcom characters easily solved in 22 minutes, week after week after week.

Here are some books we’d love to see taped before a live studio audience.

5 Classic Books Hollywood Should Adapt Into Corny Sitcoms

Not every TV show was dreamed up by some people on their laptops in Hollywood. Many of today's most popular shows have literary origins. Game of Thrones is based on George R. R.

What novel would you love to see as a sitcom?

A Richard Linklater film: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Based on the novel by Maria Sempleis 
Richard Linklater films is always an event for true movie buffs.
The Before Midnight/School of Rock/Boyhood director is taking on Semple’s funny, quirky novel about an agoraphobic mom who goes missing. Her daughter Bee, who had been preparing for a family trip to Antarctica, searches through documents and correspondence in order to figure out exactly what happened. Where'd You Go, Bernadette is tightly constructed and is written in many formats.

The Pitch: Bernadette Fox has vanished.
When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces.
Which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Courtesy of SupermariaSemple

The Pitch: Maria Semple pitched her novel to Seattle book folk with Tom Skerritt, Garth Stein and Ken Jennings weighing in. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are, and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.  

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Timeline: May 21, 2012, A Wall Street Journal Interview with TV writer Maria Semple writes a satirical novel about an unhinged housewife in Seattle, taking shots at self-righteous private school mothers and Microsoft's corporate culture. Maria Semple is the author of the novels Today Will Be Different (2016), Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2012) and This One is Mine (2008), all published by Little, Brown and Co. Before writing fiction, she wrote for the TV shows 90210, Mad About You, Arrested Development and others.

Movie: Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2018)

Directed by Richard Linklater. With Cate Blanchett, Judy Greer, Kristen Wiig, Billy Crudup. After her anxiety-ridden mother disappears, 15-year-old Bee does everything she can to track her down, discovering her troubled past in the process.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette, an international bestseller, has been translated into 30 languages.
It spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and made over a dozen year-end best lists.
It was short-listed for the Women’s Prize and received the Alex Award from the American Library Association. It’s currently being made into a film starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup. Richard Linklater writes and directs. The movie is slated to open on October 19, 2018.

Today Will Be Different was an instant international bestseller and was featured on the cover of the New York Times book review. It, too, made over a dozen year-end best lists. It’s currently in development with Annapurna pictures as a limited TV series with Maria writing and executive producing.

Maria loves to teach.  She’s taught her popular writing workshop at Hugo House and the Cloud Room in Seattle, the Aspen Writers Conference, and Wordstock in Portland.

Books Have the Power to Bring People Together—

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, an NYT bestselling novel adapts to the big screen.

Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding a connection in the most surprising ways.
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.”

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January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.

As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
The movie will premiere in the U.K. on April 20, 2018
Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.

Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways. Characters of importance to know about this new romance- and adventure-packed film.—

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

Directed by Mike Newell. With Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Michiel Huisman. A writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island in the aftermath of World War II, when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.

 “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.” ― Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer worked as an editor, a librarian, and in bookshops.
Her life-long dream was to someday write her own book and publish it.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel.
Unfortunately, she became very ill with cancer and so she asked her niece, Annie Barrows, the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half, to help her finish the book. Mary Ann Shaffer died in February 2008, a few months before her first novel was published. Citation: Mary Ann Shaffer via Goodreads.

In the Year 2045, Reality is an Ugly Place—

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures 
 This bestselling cult classic is now a major motion picture directed by Spielberg
RPO Official Movie Site —In theaters: March 29, 2018

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place.
The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.  But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: Chapter 1
Ernest Cline is an American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter.

Cline has confirmed that a sequel to Ready Player One is in the works, “ … and it is one of those great ideas that has endless possibilities,” he said. “And to a certain extent, the longer it exists and the more Ernie thinks about it, the more he comes up with.”  Cline didn’t reveal any other details about what the book would be about or when it would come out, other than to say that he had the chance to bounce some ideas off of Spielberg.
Source: The Verge

 Cline's first novel, Ready Player One, is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, appeared on numerous “best of the year” lists.  His second novel, ARMADA, debuted at #4 on the NYT Bestseller list and is being made into a film by Universal Pictures. More Ernest Cline’s books:

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