10 Book-to-Screen Adaptations We Can’t Wait For

Taking its cue from movies like Get Out, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS starts off with a road trip with a couple and the atmosphere feels off. Jake and his unnamed girlfriend are off to meet his parents but Girlfriend is considering ending the relationship. Things take a turn when Jake insists on driving her to his old high school—and then disappears. Identity swapping, spooky hallways, and violent surprises abound in this psychological thriller that we’re certain will be the perfect haunted date-night movie. You can expect the Netflix film directed by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind writer/director in 2020. Read the full review of I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS.

Can’t get enough of Lupita Nyong’o? Well, you’re in luck: she’s starring in the TV miniseries of AMERICANAH. The love between young Ifemelu and Obinze begins during their teenage years in Nigeria. When Ifemelu leaves to study in the US and Obinze is denied a visa, their lives split. Years later, Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze must decide if they can reawaken their love. With Nyong’o producing and starring and her BFF—The Walking Dead Actress and Tony-nominated playwright—Danai Gurira working on the script, we’re brimming with anticipation for this long-awaited adaptation. Read the full review of AMERICANAH.

HBO takes on Stephen King with a miniseries coming in 2020! When police detective Ralph Anderson accuses popular teacher and little league coach Terry Maitland of raping, mutilating, and killing an eleven-year-old boy, the small town of Flint City, Oklahoma, goes haywire. As the plot thickens, a mysterious character called THE OUTSIDER becomes increasingly violent, and plays the other characters to a terrifying end.

Tom Hanks is set to play Ove in the film adaptation of this Swedish comedy-drama. Ove is a fifty-nine-year-old widower who thinks his life is truly over. After a suicide attempt, Ove’s neighbors strive to break into the elderly man’s life, and one succeeds. A heartwarming story about aging and community, A MAN CALLED OVE is sure to be a tearjerker. Read the full review of A MAN CALLED OVE.

In this new spin on the “only minutes left to live” narrative, Katie Khan has penned a beautiful story about love, as Carys and Max count down their ninety minutes of oxygen supply left. They are adrift in space with nothing left to hold on to but each other. What if only one of them gets the chance to survive? Black Panther’s Letitia Wright and Star Wars’ John Boyega will star as the star-crossed lovers.

Featuring a dream cast—including Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Reese Witherspoon, and more—Hulu adapted limited series of Celeste Ng’s LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE will be an instant hit. Even more exciting, author Celeste Ng is on the writing team. In LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, we enter the lives of a rich family whose home has just been burned to the ground. Did their youngest daughter do it? Why? This intricate novel brings together questions of family loyalty and privilege, all set in a progressive suburb of Cleveland.

The epic, emotional novel ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, set in France in World War II, is being adapted into a Netflix limited series. The series will be created by the production company behind Stranger Things, and we can’t wait to see what this heartwarming story about kindness and friendship between a young blind girl and an orphan drafted into the Hitler youth will become on the screen.

First a podcast, then a novel, next an exciting digital series. In a story of truly newsworthy proportions, LIMETOWN takes its plot from the well-loved podcast. When seventeen-year-old Lisa Haddock hears that three hundred people living at a nearby research facility have disappeared without a trace, she dives headfirst into the mystery. Jessica Biel is set to star in Facebook’s ten-episode series about this thrilling adventure.

Reese Witherspoon is set to produce this sordid tale about a rich young woman covering up her old identity. Ani FaNelli endured a shocking public humiliation at her prestigious former high school, and she sought to reinvent herself and erase her past. Now she has it all, yet she’s still harboring a dark secret. Will she set herself free—and at what cost? Read the full review of LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE.

More Lupita Nyong’o, please! Trevor Noah’s bestselling memoir is being adapted into a film but there’s still no word on when we’ll see it on screen. Set in the years of apartheid through the transition into the new South Africa, Noah tells the story of his incredibly strong mother (to be played by Nyong’o), and being biracial in the heated, changing climate of South Africa.