Since become a bibliophile I’ve tried to read the books before seeing the movie adaptation, but this is often difficult; there are so many books being made into movies and often I don’t find out about them until closer to the release date. There is a site called Read it 1st which sends out newsletters of books being turned into movies but sadly this site has been inactive for a while and Hank Green is just too busy doing all the jobs. So with a little help from an article from iO9 and some Google searching I’ve decided to give people an idea of the 30 new film adaptations currently in the works. Just a warning some of these movies are still in development and some may never make it to a release date.
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Maximum Ride by James Patterson
Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Ready Player One by Ernie Cline
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Forest of Hands & Teeth by Carrie Ryan
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Hobbit by JRR Tolken
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
I just stumbled across a list of 20 Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life on the io9 blog. While I haven’t read all the books there are some great choices there and I thought I should share it with my readers as well. Whether you agree or not, this is an interesting list;
Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
The Time Machine (1895), by H.G. Wells
At the Mountains of Madness (1931), by H.P. Lovecraft
I, Robot (1955), by Isaac Asimov
The Dispossessed (1974), by Ursula LeGuin
Kindred (1979), by Octavia Butler
Wizard (1979), by John Varley
Consider Phlebas (1987), by Iain M. Banks
He, She, and It (1991), by Marge Piercy
Sarah Canary (1991), by Karen Joy Fowler
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), by Vernor Vinge
The Bohr Maker (1995), by Linda Nagata
The Sparrow (1996), by Mary Doria Russell
Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson
The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller
Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow
Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson
Newton’s Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod
Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross
For those of you not familiar with io9, it’s a blog part of the gawker network that focuses on the subjects of science fiction, futurism and advancements in the fields of science and technology.
Since become a bibliophile I’ve tried to read the books before seeing the movie adaptation, but this is often difficult; there are so many books being made into movies and often I don’t find out about them until closer to the release date. There is a site called Read it 1st which sends out newsletters of books being turned into movies but sadly this site has been inactive for a while and Hank Green is just too busy doing all the jobs. So with a little help from an article from iO9 and some Google searching I’ve decided to give people an idea of the 30 new film adaptations currently in the works. Just a warning some of these movies are still in development and some may never make it to a release date.