Literary adaptations will be arriving on your screen soon!
TV and movie book adaptations always divide a room but, love them or hate them, they are a great source of entertainment.
2021 will be bringing some much-needed escapism with classic and new stories, despite the interruption from the COVID-19 pandemic to the creative industries.
From Dune to Shadow and Bone, there are literary adaptations for everyone.
Slated for 2020 but pushed back to 2021 thanks to the pandemic halting proceedings, Dune is due another remake.
The big-budget adaptation from Denis Villeneuve will be brought to our screens by Warner Bros. and Legendary. The new adaptation boasts a star-studded cast including Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Charlotte Rampling, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, and Javier Bardem, among others.
The classic novel adaptation will be in theatres and HBO Max in late 2021.
Jessie Mei Li stars as a teenage orphan, Alina Starkov who discovers that she possesses the power to harness the elements and potentially unite a divided country.
The series will also star Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Amita Suman as Inej Ghafa, Kit Young as Jesper Fahey, and Freddy Carter will take on the role of Kaz Brekker.
The first series will consist of eight episodes and filming has already begun in Budapest, Hungary, and is expected to air next year.
Adapted from the 2018 novel by Patrick DeWitt, the novel is about a wealthy widow and her son who head to Paris from New York in the wake of scandal.
The story served as the basis for a comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges that closed out the 2020 New York Film Festival.
The surreal comedy will hit cinemas on the 12th of February 2021.
Netflix’s popular adaptation To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy is back with a third instalment in time for Valentine’s Day.
Noah Centineo and Lana Condor star once more in the young adult adaptation. The story follows YA author Jenny Han’s To All the Boys and P.S. I Still Love You, and sees Lara Jean (Condor) enter her senior year facing huge life decisions as she prepares to head to college.
It hits Netflix on February 12th, 2021.
Based on John Preston’s 2007 novel, The Dig, this Netflix adaptation is set at the start of WWII when “a wealthy widow (Carey Mulligan) hires an amateur archaeologist (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain’s past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.”
This film is one of the many weekly new releases promised by Netflix during 2021.
The Netflix adaptation stars Katherine Heigl as Tully Hart and Sarah Chalke as Kate Mularkey.
The story follows the two best friends and all that entails as their lives diverge when one achieves fame and fortune and the other a quiet life of marriage and motherhood. An act of betrayal sees their friendship put to the ultimate test.
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