The Booknatics discussion

If you hear anything about your favorite book being turned into a movie or television show, share the news here. Feel free to discuss your feelings on the matter!

Hey does anyone know if they are turning the house of night novels into movies? I have heard many rumors about it but I have no idea what the legit deal is.

Bianca wrote: "Hey does anyone know if they are turning the house of night novels into movies? I have heard many rumors about it but I have no idea what the legit deal is."

In November 2011, it was announced that the film rights to House of Night had been acquired by producer Samuel Hadida's company, Davis Films. PC Cast also said through her live stream chat that she confirmed for five movies. The first is going to be released in 2013.

This is from Wikipedia, under film adaptation for the novels

A Fallen movie is in talks, and Walt Disney Studios has optioned the rights to Fallen. Since the Fallen series is a four part series, Disney made sure that they obtained rights to all four of the books in the deal. Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray will produce the movie. Alex Pettyfer is said to star in it. ( From Wikipedia)
It is also said that Lucy Hale will play Luce, and Liam Hemsworth will also be in it.

Would love to hear peeps thoughts on The Hobbit. My favorite book as a kid. Do you think it lives up to LOTR movies? Better? Worse? Thoughts on the additional stuff not from Hobbit book?

I went to see the movie and ended up dozing off..

I haven't seen the Hobbit but I do know there is a part two due out in Dec 2013

Krystle and I were just talking about our favorite books by Karen Marie Moning, hiighhly recommend it! Starts with this one

Incredibly fun series. We are hoping it will become a television series, perhaps on HBO or SHOtime, seeing as there are many naughty scenes, lol.
In 2011, the rights were picked up by Dreamworks, that would have been amazing.

Usually Book-to-Movie/T.V. adaptions make me sad, but this one I will let slide, because there are so many things going on visually in the world of Fae, I think it would be stunning to see in "Real Life" A television series would be perfect for this novel though. KMM just has this magic with her writing, she throws you on curves when you least expect it, her character development is phenomenal, and the adventure for the different mysteries we stumble upon in the books, are edge-of-your-seat fun. AAHH if you haven’t read this series yet, maybe you will find that you too will enjoy it!

Stephen King's "Cell" Would be awesome!!

I would love it if the "Fever" series were to be turned into either a series on HBO/Showtime or a movie !

Other books I'd like to see turn into something would be Stephen King's "Cell" - that would be a good series..
Dean Koontz's " Lightning" , Loved this book. The time travelers wife was similiar but not quite.

Deleted my previous posts because I posted from my phone then realized I had major typos lol, ran to the computer and re-wrote this ! Ha..

LOL, I understood everyword still hahhaha
I think we should post petitions and stuff to our favorite authors to start series and movies

:) Maybe Karen will comment back to us about your post!

That would be a-feckin-amazing lolol. A girl could only wish though *sniffles* I thought she actually deleted it at one point, because I couldn't find it on her page.

I posted the Who's who of Book covers the other day on Larissa Iones wall because one of her books was up for the Top Cover in Paranormal Romance, and she took it off :( . Prolly because it had other authors?

Any-Who..

For anyone that read Stephen King's "Under the Dome" it will be a 13 episode mini series in June on CBS :)

Bought the book and told my dad about it, he then said he wanted to read it right away so I hope I'll be able to get to it before the show airs! Ha!

Nice!! I didn't know about that, I will have to DVR it!

I was wondering if KMM is sick of hearing people talk about movies and television for her series, but I had to get it out there for her to consider moreeee. She'd make even more money, with all the crazy Feverfans out there. Knock True Blood and all those other paranormal shows out of the water. Looks like it is still on her wall, but like, hidden somewhere, so confused lol.

Omgahhhhhhhhh just saw the movie Beautiful Creatures --- nothing like the book. It was just all one big mess :( If you guys want to see my thoughts click the link below for my blow, but beware Spoiler alerts!!!

http://booknatics.wordpress.com/2013/...

Working on writing a list of upcoming goodies. A BUNCH of good ones coming out between now and 2014

Another Romeo and Juliet remake coming out this year.

The Raven Boys by y Maggie Stiefvater : I have been meaning to read this for a while now. It appealed to me right away.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith : Released this year

The Looking Glass Wars by by Frank Beddor

I have a few others, but the authors are failed to mention so I don't want to link the wrong book

The Host by Stephanie Meyer: Most of us should know this by now. It's a good chance we may see a second installment as well if this is a success.

Adept (The Wiccan Diaries, #3) : by T.D. McMichael

The Great Gatsby : by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hunter (Parker, #1) :by Richard Stark

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) :by Maggie Stiefvater

The Two Faces of January :by Patricia Highsmith

Prodigy (Legend, #2) :by Marie Lu

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus :by John Gray

Shadow and Bone: by Leigh Bardugo- This is the first installment of the Grisha series.

Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters by Richelle Mead: First installment to a long vampire series. Released in 2014

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks: Supposedly this year, it will be filming.

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr: Awesome series of the Fae world. Supposedly filming this year.

Odd Thomas (#1) : by Dean Koontz- Supposedly filming this year!!!

Uglies (Uglies, #1) by Scott Westerfeld: (YA-Sci Fi)

Here is the first half of a list I am putting together

Carrie(remake) by Stephen King: Horror/Thriller/Fantasy/Adult


The Giver- Let me tell you how excited I am about this one... *DANCES AROUND LIKE A LOON* This is to this day, STILL my favorite book. The first Dystopian I ever read. They are not sure when it's going to begin casting/filming, but I will keep you updated on this one!

Maximum Ride: James Patterson- (YA/Sci-Fi) I am also very excited about this. This has GREAT potential of being an amazing movie.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children- (Thriller/Paranormal) YAY!!! They are not sure when they will begin casting, though.


The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (YA/Urban Fantasy)Released in August


The Night Circus ( a Fantasy) by Erin Morgenstern: Another favorite book of mine. Still in the talks.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (YA/Horror/Fantasy)- Casting not yet taken place

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (YA-Fantasy) ANGELS YAYYAYAYAY!! They don't have a set date yet for though. It is still in the talks.

Divergent by Veronica Roth (YA/Dystopian) Next year (2014)

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Sci Fi/YA) This year sometime.

Fallen by Lauren Kate (YA/Fantasy/Romance) More Angels!! (still waiting for news on this one, actually.)

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (YA/Dystopia/Post Apocalyptic) Zombies.. OH my. This will be filmed this year

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest – Part two of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo …Still in the talks

Wow that's awesome! ! I had no idea the Odd Thomas series would be a movie ;)

I think Dean Koontz books have been out for so long now, that they deserve to be made into movies, they would rock the theaters!

Omg yes ! I really want Lightning to be movie !!

I could Squeeeeeeeee !!!

Stephen King's "Cell" is going to be a movie, so far they have actor John Cusack as the lead role !!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775440/

Krystle ~A Booknatic~ wrote: "Omgahhhhhhhhh just saw the movie Beautiful Creatures --- nothing like the book. It was just all one big mess :( If you guys want to see my thoughts click the link below for my blow, but beware Spoi..."

Wow, I completely agree with you, but you were far more specific in your reasons of differences than i am/was.
Here is my review:
Review after watching the STUPID MOVIE:
My mantra (when dealing with the whole book turns into a movie) has always been "THE BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE" (and don't argue with me because I WILL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF). People who are too lazy to read the books argue with me, but I'm to busy feeling sad for them to even care about ripping their heads off. The "Beautiful Creatures" movie gives me more reason to agree with my mantra. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!! Nothing close to the book AT ALL. The switch of Jack O Connell to whatever this guys name is affected me at first, but then i thought "well the movie is still going to happen so I should be happy about that." However, this greatly affected me while watching the trailers and then the ACTUAL MOVIE. This guy looks like he is FREAKIN THIRTY!! And Ethan is suppose to be 16!!! I faced the same problem with the actress playing Lena (though her problem was not as bad as the problem I faced with the actor playing Ethan). This is just the start of a long tirade my friends. Second: THE ACCENTS!! I understand this is a southern book and I was excited that the actors were going to have southern accents. But Ethan's actor...he just didn't fully cherish the southern accent and his laugh was just SOOO TACKY!!! Third: The movie was nothing like the book (okay just maybe but in a few parts). I READ BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and yet the movie was confusing to me (imagine how it was for those who didn't even read the book). The directors didn't really know how to show the whole spell thing. The whole history with Genevieve was barely mentioned! And as usual the directors had to put in things that had no business being there! Like for example, Lena NEVER put a spell on Ethan so that he would forget her. Yet, tell me how in the movie she did! It wasn't till the end, when Ethan was on his way to college (which he isn't even suppose to be going to because he is SIXTEEN) and scream "LENA" (this was tacky also). The fact that Lena claimed herself as a dark and light caster was not given enough importance. The special relationship between Ethan and Lena was not build up enough. The movie started and within 2 minutes Ethan was already kissing Lena. I MEAN COME ON!! There is something called time...which makes a relationship be worth what it's really suppose to be worth. In the end, don't waste 10 or even 1 dollar on this movie because it sucked. I kind of want to say that whatever horrible comment people have made for Beautiful creatures THE BOOK think of me saying that but for the MOVIE.

Susana I'm glad you agree. Ugh it was trash !!!!!!!

Overall, I was really upset because the book was soo AWESOME and when I heard of the movie I had high hopes that it would be a success, but to me it definitely wasn't.

Should have known it was going to be terrible with the first few mins , when "Ethan" started singing in the car..... ugh lmao

I'm so hyped about Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters!!!!!

Same here! The guy they picked for Dimitri... God, save us LOL

I used to be a huge fan of Archie comics! I still have every one of them in storage, sad I know. But for you other Archie-heads, after the series being on the downlow for so long, we are looking at a whole new generation for the series... on the big screen!
What do you think about this?
http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-t...

If any of you liked the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness....

It's coming to the big screen :)

http://deborahharkness.com/all-souls-...

OO, thanks! Adding that to the blog list!
I've been adding trailers and pics and keeping an eye out for further news on these productions! Sooo excited because Divergent finally has stills from the film weeeee. I already know the movies are going to be better LOL. I think I finally realized why I didn't like the books so much, they read at a lower grade level. T_T