Tracking some of the news as it pertains to some of the books we've read being optioned and possibly headed to the big or small screen, but I'm sure the book was better. ;) Please note that I am just copying/pasting the info below. I'm not writing it
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Originally published: 1934, Collins Crime Club Optioned for: Film (Fox) What it’s about: Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Peña, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., and others form the ensemble for Christie’s famous mystery about Hercule Poirot’s attempts to solve a murder aboard the Orient Express, with the murderer among the passengers. Status: Kenneth Branagh will direct and costar as Poirot.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley BraveNewWorld_FirstEditionOriginally published: 1932, Chatto & Windus Optioned for: Television (Syfy) What it’s about: Aldous Huxley’s scarily prescient vision of the future sees humans born in hatcheries and seduced by consumerism, free sex, and—when those don’t make them entirely happy—the hallucinogenic drug soma, which they can take to get away from it all. But soon a “savage” from the “reservation” threatens the World State. Status: Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television will adapt Huxley’s iconic novel, with Grant Morrison and Bryan Taylor (Crank) serving as writers and executive producers. No word yet if it will be a miniseries or ongoing series. The last update was in late 2016.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Michael B. Jordan will be starring in an adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s memoir Just Mercy.
Writer/Director: The screenplay is being written by Andrew Lanham and director Destin Daniel Cretton. Both are young, but have been recognized for their previous work. Lanham was a 2010 AFF Drama Screenplay Winner and 2010 Nicholl Fellow. Cretton was also a 2010 Nicholl Fellow who received good buzz for his feature film Short Term 12. It’s hard to know how they’ll handle Just Mercy, but I like the idea of it being adapted by people used to doing smaller projects – this story is good enough it doesn’t need to be made sentimental or, well, Hollywood.
Cast: Michael B. Jordan is signed on to play Stevenson (as well as be a producer on the movie), which is really great news. He has some blockbuster/mainstream recognition thanks to his current role as Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four and upcoming starring role as Adonis Johnson in Creed.
Please note that I am just copying/pasting the info below. I'm not writing it
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Originally published: 1934, Collins Crime Club
Optioned for: Film (Fox)
What it’s about: Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Peña, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., and others form the ensemble for Christie’s famous mystery about Hercule Poirot’s attempts to solve a murder aboard the Orient Express, with the murderer among the passengers.
Status: Kenneth Branagh will direct and costar as Poirot.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
BraveNewWorld_FirstEditionOriginally published: 1932, Chatto & Windus
Optioned for: Television (Syfy)
What it’s about: Aldous Huxley’s scarily prescient vision of the future sees humans born in hatcheries and seduced by consumerism, free sex, and—when those don’t make them entirely happy—the hallucinogenic drug soma, which they can take to get away from it all. But soon a “savage” from the “reservation” threatens the World State.
Status: Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television will adapt Huxley’s iconic novel, with Grant Morrison and Bryan Taylor (Crank) serving as writers and executive producers. No word yet if it will be a miniseries or ongoing series. The last update was in late 2016.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Michael B. Jordan will be starring in an adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s memoir Just Mercy.
Writer/Director: The screenplay is being written by Andrew Lanham and director Destin Daniel Cretton. Both are young, but have been recognized for their previous work. Lanham was a 2010 AFF Drama Screenplay Winner and 2010 Nicholl Fellow. Cretton was also a 2010 Nicholl Fellow who received good buzz for his feature film Short Term 12. It’s hard to know how they’ll handle Just Mercy, but I like the idea of it being adapted by people used to doing smaller projects – this story is good enough it doesn’t need to be made sentimental or, well, Hollywood.
Cast: Michael B. Jordan is signed on to play Stevenson (as well as be a producer on the movie), which is really great news. He has some blockbuster/mainstream recognition thanks to his current role as Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four and upcoming starring role as Adonis Johnson in Creed.