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A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
In July, 2006, Icon Productions, the film production company run by Mel Gibson, announced that it would adapt the book into a film based on A Great and Terrible Beauty, to be written and directed by Charles Sturridge. People have been rumored to be playing the characters, but author Libba Bray has confirmed that no one has been cast. Author Libba Bray discusses the current status of the film on her webpage. The movie is set to be released in 2010.
GONE
Michael Grant gave an announcement answering if Gone would be made into a movie: YES! It’s still in the very beginning, but he’s serious and dedicated about the project.
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HARRY POTTER
In 1998, Rowling sold the film rights of the first four Harry Potter books to Warner Bros. Rowling demanded the principal cast be kept strictly British, and for casting of French and Eastern European actors in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where characters from the book are specified as such. After many directors, Chris Columbus was appointed as director for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Just three days after Sorcerer’s Stone release, production for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, also directed by Columbus began.
Chris Columbus declined to direct Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, only acting as producer. Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón took over the job. Due to the fourth film beginning its production before the third’s release, Mike Newell was chosen as the director for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Newell declined to direct the next movie, and British television director David Yates was chosen for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Yates also directed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In March 2008, Warner Bros. announced that the final instalment of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, would be filmed in two segments, with part one to be released in November 2010 and part two in July 2011. Production of both parts is underway, with Yates returning to direct.
The Harry Potter films have been top-rank box office hits, with five of the six on the list of 15 highest-grossing films worldwide.
HOUSE OF NIGHT
In 2008, Variety reported that a film adaptation of the series was in early planning stages.
Producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik have used their own coin to option screen rights to the “House of Night,” a series of twelve young adult novels by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast.
Birnbaum produced “John Tucker Must Die” and developed “Art Con” with Michael Douglas and Chechik; Chechik’s directing credits include “Benny and Joon,” and he most recently helmed and produced ESPN series “The Bronx Is Burning.”
MAXIMUM RIDE
In January 2007, it was announced that a film would be created based on the Maximum Ride series. James Patterson will be the executive producer. Avi Arad, one of the producers of Spider-Man, X-Men and other Marvel movies, will also produce alongside Steven Paul. In an interview with James Patterson, it was revealed that Arad has already planned out the first two movies. On August 7, 2008, it was announced that Columbia Pictures bought the screen rights to the franchise. Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) will direct the first movie, withDon Payne (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) writing the script. The movie is targeted for a 2010 release.
MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
The film rights to The Mortal Instruments have been optioned by Unique Features. This is a film production company set up by former founders and co-presidents of New Line Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, who oversaw the production of the Lord of the Rings movies — probably my favorite fantasy movies of all time. Cassandra Clare said: “They’re very dedicated to fantasy and they understand it, and I definitely trust them with the story of the Mortal Instruments”.
Now, a book series being optioned doesn’t mean a film is being made right now or is definitely going to be made at all — it means that the studio or production company in question is developing the books as a film project.
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MY SISTER’S KEEPER
This is a 2009 American drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Alec Baldwin. Based on Jodi Picoult’s novel of the same name with screenplay adaptation by Jeremy Leven. My Sister’s Keeper was released in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom on June 26, 2009.
NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
This movie is a 2008 American/Australian film adaptation of the novel with the same name byNicholas Sparks. The film stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane in their third screen collaboration after Unfaithful (2002) and The Cotton Club(1984). The film is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for “some sensuality” and was released on September 26, 2008. It was filmed in the small seaside village of Rodanthe, the northernmost village of the inhabited areas of Hatteras Island as well as Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
PAPER TOWNS
The movie rights to Paper Towns have been optioned by Mandate Pictures and Mr. Mudd.
Mandate Pictures is a small Hollywood production company founded in January 2005 by Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane. In 2007 the company was acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment. In May 2008, it bought a movie script known simply as “Untitled Matt Carnahan Crime Project” from American screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan.
SHIVER
Unique Features has acquired screen rights to “Shiver,” a bestselling supernatural romance novel by Maggie Stiefvater that is the first of a three-book series.
Pic will be produced by Unique Features partners Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne.
Shaye and Lynne, who at New Line covered such fantasy and supernatural subject matter as “The Lord of the Rings” and “Blade,” sparked to the author’s voice, and said they couldn’t ignore the grip that otherworldly stories have on young viewers.
Shaye and Lynne used their discretionary fund to acquire the book in a competitive bidding situation. They will bring it first to Warner Bros., where they have a first-look deal, and will set a writer shortly.
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SPEAK
This is a 2004 independent film based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Laurie Halse Anderson. It stars a then 13-year-old Kristen Stewart as Melinda Sordino, a high school freshman who stops talking completely after being rapedby an upperclassman. The film is told through Melinda’s eyes and is wrought with her sardonic humor and blunt honesty.
THE HUNGER GAMES
Lionsgate Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of The Hunger Games, which will be produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force production company. Collins will adapt the novel for film herself.
Lionsgate president of motion picture production Alli Shearmur will oversee the project for the studio, along with senior vp motion picture production Jim Miller.
” ‘The Hunger Games’ is an incredible property, and it is a thrill to bring it home to Lionsgate,” Shearmur said. “This is the exactly the kind of movie I came to Lionsgate to make: youthful, exciting, smart and edgy.”
THE LAST SONG
The film version of The Last Song is scheduled for release on March 31, 2010. Unlike previous adaptations of Sparks’ novels, Sparks wrote the film’s screenplay himself. The Last Song will be director Julie Anne Robinson’s first time directing a feature length film. Along with Cyrus, the film stars Greg Kinnear as Steve Miller, Liam Hemsworth as Will Blakelee, Kelly Preston as Kim, and Bobby Coleman as Jonah Miller.
THE LOVELY BONES
Director Peter Jackson personally secured the book’s film rights. In a 2005 interview, he stated the reader has “an experience when you read the book that is unlike any other. I don’t want the tone or the mood to be different or lost in the film.” In the same interview, regarding Susie’s heaven, he said the movie version will endeavor to make it appear “somehow ethereal and emotional, but it can’t be hokey”. The film stars Mark Wahlberg as Jack Salmon, Stanley Tucci as George Harvey, Rachel Weisz as Abigail Salmon, Saoirse Ronan as Susie and Susan Sarandon as Susie’s grandmother, Lynn.
The film opened to a limited release in three U.S. theaters on December 11, 2009. It received international and wide release on January 15, 2010.
UGLIES
Screen Gems, currently releasing “Dear John” movie is developing a filme version of “The Uglies” Series.
There haven’t been any decisions made regarding the casting but the source confirmed thatproduction of the movie is planned for later this year (2010)! That means we’ll hopefully know soon enough who could be playing the beloved Tally Youngblood in the futuristic, meaninful tale about a dystopian society that places an incredible emphasis on look.
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