1. The YA novel "Before I Fall" by Lauren Oliver is about a teenager who relives the day of her death seven times while she tries to discover the mystery of her death. Zoey Deutch stars in the movie adaptation.
2. "The Shack" was self-published back in 2007, but it became a huge hit. It's about a man who loses his daughter on a camping trip, and then returns to the site a few years later where he finds her with physical manifestations of Jesus, God the Father, and The Holy Spirit.
3. Disney's version of "Beauty and the Beast" — this one starring Emma Watson as Belle — is far from faithful from the original French fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.
4. Scarlett Johansson stars as a version of Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyberterrorist hunter in a futuristic Japan, in "Ghost in the Shell". It's based on a popular manga series which later become an anime television series and film.
5."The Zookeeper's Wife" is the true story about how the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in empty animal cages after the zoo was bombed. The movie adaptation stars Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl.
6. Stephen Chbosky — himself the author of YA hit "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" — is adapting fellow YA author Raquel Jaramillo's novel "Wonder" into a movie. It's about a boy with a facial deformity trying to fit into school.
7. Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, and John Boyega star in "The Circle" an adaptation of the Dave Eggers novel about an employee who works at a massive tech company at the center of a surveillance society.
8.Julian Barnes's award-winning novel "The Sense of an Ending" about a man dealing with secrets from his past, is getting a weighty movie adaptation starring Jim Broadbent.
9."The Lost City of Z" promises to be a swashbuckling adventure about explorers who search for a lost Mayan city. It's based on the true story of Percy Fawcett, as chronicled by New Yorker writer David Grann in his book of the same name.
10. The adaptations of Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" books continue with "Long Haul".
Nav komentāru:
Ierakstīt komentāru