21st Century Literature discussion

While browsing the Audible.com site, they have the following books listed as being adapted for movies in 2015!

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
American Sniper by Chris Kyle
Paper Towns by John Green
The Martian by Andy Weir
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Room by Emma Donoghue
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Serena by Ron Rash
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Inherent Vice: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr

Any of these your looking forward to seeing? I've read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, which I think would lend itself very well to film. I'm guess Pride and Prejudice and Zombies would also work very well in film (although I donated my copy before actually reading it).

Inherent Vice is already out, and looks great. Silence is directed by Scorsese, Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Vinterberg, and The Martian by Ridley Scott so high hopes for those (I liked Prometheus; to heck with all the naysayers). I'm sure Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will be up there with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in the pantheon of great films. I have zero interest in these as well, book or movie.

In general, I think that frequently the less popular a book is the better chance it has of being a good movie. The filmmaker is usually freer to make changes that work better for a film, without having the studio wanting an illustrated version of the book to please its fans.

Motherless Brooklyn is coming out soon with ed norton. Funniest novel i read last year. And I've just finished Brooklyn which i reckon will make a decent film.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a much better movie than I expected... Just sayin'.

Violet wrote: "Motherless Brooklyn is coming out soon with ed norton. Funniest novel i read last year. And I've just finished Brooklyn which i reckon will make a decent film."

Not holding my breath on Brooklyn. Norton optioned the rights soon after the book came out 15 years ago, and it's still in development stages. Although my understanding is he finally got financing?

Marc, I'll take your word on Abe. I have zero respect for authors who make their name writing pastiches of other works. It's one of my cranky pet peeves.

I'm with you on the zero interest part. My son requested we watch the film.

The film based on JG Ballard's High-Rise is also due out in 2015. Heard very good things about this book, but the library hasn't had it the last couple times I checked.

I heard that Still Alice is going to be another movie coming out

Julie wrote: "I heard that Still Alice is going to be another movie coming out"

Not familier with Still Alice. Did you read it?

High-Rise, yay! Tom Hiddleston, yay!

Whitney wrote: "Julie wrote: "I heard that Still Alice is going to be another movie coming out"

Not familier with Still Alice. Did you read it?"

Yes....seems like the type of thing that would make a good movie. :-)

Julie wrote: "I heard that Still Alice is going to be another movie coming out"

I haven't read the book, but the movie is coming out in the US this week. Julianne Moore just won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama for the movie.

Americanah is supposed to come out at some point this year with Lupita Nyong'o starring.

Whitney wrote: "Julie wrote: "I heard that Still Alice is going to be another movie coming out"

Not familier with Still Alice. Did you read it?

High-Rise, yay! Tom Hiddleston, yay!"

Ugh. Still Alice. I read it. Wished I hadn't.

Now Serena by Ron Rash should make a great movie.

Kirsten wrote: "While browsing the Audible.com site, they have the following books listed as being adapted for movies in 2015!

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
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Thanks for sharing this. I like that I will have time to read some of these BEFORE the movies. I hate when I find out a movie is based on a book, because then I don't imagine the book quite the way I would have, and I generally just end up not reading it.

Motherless Brooklyn? With Ed Norton? I'm in!