5 Answers2025-08-07
Chemistry of Love could be made into a film and that would be amazing. The book is really unique in that it combines science with romance and the dialogue is already written in a really screen friendly way. I would love for them to cast well and for them to bring the lab scenes to life as well as the rest of the story and its emotional payoff. Here’s hoping they do the book justice.
2 Answers2026-05-29
I am interested in reading more of Zane’s books. As for the possibility of the stories being made into movies, there are none yet but I think she has screen potential. Her ‘Nervous’ series or ‘Skyscraper’ would make a great steamy and suspenseful drama. I would be first in line to watch it on television and then subsequent seasons on DVD to binge watch them.
3 Answers2025-07-25
There are many broken books of interest to filmmakers. ‘Pale Fire’ by Vladimir Nabokov is a poetic psychological thriller waiting to be made as a feature film. The rare book is comprised of a long poem followed by a lengthy commentary by an unreliable narrator, similar to that found in the novels by the author of this column.
‘The Silent History’ is another highly interesting work. Written by Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett, it first appeared as an app-based work presented as a serial of stories mostly set in the same location, each tagged with the Geo-location where they were written. Interesting in itself, it could also be extended as an interactive film, perhaps as a series of short films linked together by a conceptual framework and exploring the intersection of memory and technology – highly relevant to today’s world.
These books have already been turned into film in a pretty groundbreaking way, for Choose Your Own Adventure books the films were interactive and the audience even got to vote on what direction the plot would take in real time, it was really creative and could change the way we experience film and story even more if it were to be done again. Adapting broken books is pretty niche right now but who knows, it could blow up.
7 Answers2025-08-16
The economic model for big-budget films based on non-superhero IPs has changed dramatically and in most cases become too risky. On the other hand, streaming services need a constant supply of content. Therefore, ‘Dies the Fire’ could be the perfect flagship for a service trying to build an audience for genre films and be developed as a series of several seasons. This would need to be pitched as a Post-Apocalyptic, Societal Drama with Fantasy elements. Focus on the Human stories that will play out within this ‘Dystopian’ world and market it as ‘The Walking Dead’ without the zombies or a ‘Game of Thrones’ set in a post-apocalyptic America. There is a very viable pitch here to get a ‘green light’.
3 Answers2026-03-28
I would like to see ‘Dragonfall Book 3’ made into a movie, however I fear that there would be trouble in getting all of the story and plot together within a 2 hour film. The second book is pretty intense and I fear that all of it could not be captured in a film without rushing through some of the parts.
It would work as a two-part movie or even as a series, like Harry Potter was split into movies. The dragons would have to be brilliant though. Since House of the Dragon set the bar so high, I hope they’d want to do it justice too. Bring it on either way!
6 Answers2026-07-29
One of my favorite short stories of all time is ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ by Edgar Allan Poe. There have been so many film adaptations of this short story over the years, including a great version by Roger Corman with Vincent Price in the 1960s, and more recently a Netflix series by Mike Flanagan. The short story is a masterpiece of gothic horror that creates a great atmosphere of madness and decay and of a house literally falling down. Most film adaptations fail to capture the density of Poe’s words and try to recreate the mood of the story, with the main objective of inducing dread, of portraying decay, and of announcing doom. The series by Flanagan is a very loose adaptation, using the title and the themes of the short story to create a modern horror series.
8 Answers2025-07-08
I don’t think it has happened. And I am not really interested in seeing much-adapted fiction, especially when it has been so poorly done in the past. I would rather there were no film of The Unteachables than a poor one. For fear of having my perception of the book ruined in some way I would prefer that The Unteachables remained a purely literary work. We don’t need to see The Unteachables in order to believe that it is good. The full power of the work resides within the words, the pace and the unique voices of the various characters as they are expressed by its author, Elizabeth Korman. Not everything needs to be ‘commodified’ in this way and there are some works of art that are better left in their original format. This could well be one of them.
10 Answers2025-08-15
Adapting long works of fiction to the length of a film is, in many ways, the greatest enemy of the author’s original work. My own work, Southern Man, is a huge doorstop of a book and, if filmed in its entirety, would run to well over several hours of screen time. Even the most liberal of editing would involve the stripping of subplots, the combining of characters, and the simplification of motivations. The very richness of the work comes from those very details. Therefore, adapting the book to film becomes a process of subtraction, of trying to work out what can be cut and still allow the basic story to hold together. Sometimes this will result in clever cuts that add to the overall narrative, on other occasions it will strip out nuance and result in a cardboard cut-out of the original plot. Most filmmakers would shy a mile from such a task, but I believe that if there is a filmmaker out there who ‘gets’ the heart and the message of this book, then they should attempt to create a new story, of roughly equal length, that captures the essence of the work, even if it doesn’t include all of the original scenes and plot twists. That’s not an easy task and it’s not one that many people would be up to.
3 Answers2025-09-06
Nothing (widely released, anyway) yet. My mental list of favorite novels to make into movies continues to evolve and About Grace remains on the list. This novel is quietly complex, moody, and above all highly character-orientated, which is exactly why it will never be reduced to a film. I love these kinds of novels to read in silence with my notebook by my side. Occasionally there are wonderful scenes and sequences but ultimately it is a dense, complex novel that will inspire many conversations about it in a reading group and makes for a wonderful, short, indie film rather than a mainstream movie.
For now, adaptations of other literary works would have to do to feed your taste for the kind of introspective, atmospheric screen time About Grace offers. You could also just read the book yourself – preferably slowly, and maybe even aloud to another person. You can also set up a Google Alert for ‘About Grace adaptation’ and check IMDb from time to time for any news of a project; sometimes such information surfaces in the smallest of notices, like a casting announcement or a mention of a film playing at a festival. Maybe one day a thoughtful filmmaker will make a decent adaptation of the novel. Until then, I guess I’ll just have to keep my fingers crossed.
12 Answers2025-06-26
Rumors about 'The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August' getting a movie adaptation have been swirling for years, but nothing concrete has materialized yet. The novel's intricate time-loop narrative and rich character arcs make it a tantalizing prospect for filmmakers, but also a challenging one. Claire North’s dense, philosophical storytelling would require a visionary director to translate its layers to the screen without losing its soul.
I’ve heard whispers of interest from indie studios, but big studios might shy away from its nonlinear complexity. Fans keep hoping—its themes of redemption and cyclical fate are timeless. If done right, it could be the next 'Cloud Atlas,' but until a studio greenlights it, we’re left rewinding our own hopes.