Thursday, January 05, 2012

Books into Films 2012



Get a head start and read these now, before the movies debut!

JANUARY:
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare with Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, starring Tilda Swinton
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich with Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum

FEBRUARY:
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, starring Daniel Radcliffe

MARCH:
Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax with the voices of Danny DeVito, Zac Ephron & Taylor Swift
Think Like a Man from “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” by Steve Harvey
Game Change starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain. Book by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin
Being Flynn from the book “Another Bullsh*t Night in Suck City” by Nick Flynn, with Robert DeNiro
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Bk 2 Catching Fire film due in Nov. 2013)

APRIL (on TV):
Great Expectations with Gillian Anderson on Masterpiece Theatre (2 parts)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens also on Masterpiece Theatre

MAY:
Hemingway & Gellhorn with Nicole Kidman & Clive Owens from the biography by Michael Reynolds

JUNE:
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter from the book by Seth Grahame Smith

LATER THIS YEAR (tentative):
The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader (not starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne this time)
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, with Tobey Maguire and Gerard Depardieu
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien starring Ian McLellan
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz starring Willem Dafoe
Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley and Jude Law in Tolstoy’s classic
Perks of Being a Wildflower by Stephen Chbosky, starring Emma Watson
Cosmopolis by Don Delillo, starring Robert Pattinson
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath with Julia Stiles
The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan
World War Z by Max Brooks starring Brad Pitt and zombies
The Alchemist from “Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” by Michael Scott
Septimus Heap: Magyk by Angie Sage
Startide Rising by David Brin
Mortal Instruments by Casandra Clare (City of Bones Book 1)
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz, starring Tina Fey
Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell with Andrew Garfield and Jennifer Garner)
Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston, starring George Clooney

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