Archive for the ‘Books adapted to screenplays’ tag

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.16.10)

THE TERMINAL SPY: A TRUE STORY OF ESPIONAGE, BETRAYAL, AND MURDER

Genre: Mystery Drama

Author: Alan Cowell

Screenwriters: David Scarpa and Mike Newell

Logline: In 2006, ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is poisoned by polonium-210. As he lies dying in a London hospital, he accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of being responsible for his murder. This mysterious and perplexing crime of the post-Col War era triggers an international investigation and diplomatic tension between Russian and London officials.

HEIST SOCIETY

Genre: Thriller

Author: Ally Carter

Screenwriter: Shauna Cross

Logline: A young woman who hails from an extended family of cat burglars and master thieves leaves her illicit life behind, but when her father becomes the prime suspect behind a mobster’s missing art collection, she assembles a crew to track down the art and steal it back.

SHIVER

Genre: Supernatural Romance

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Screenwriter: Nick Pustay

Logline: A bittersweet romance takes place between a teen girl and a boy who turns into a wolf each winter. As the temperature drops, the race to keep him human begins.

DUNE

(Remake)

Genre: Science Fiction

author: Frank Herbert

Screenwriter: Chase Palmer

Logline: Set on the remote desert planet of Arrakis, the one planet that produces the interstellar’s sole source of the spice Melange, an empire wide power struggle begins over the control of the spice.

ANIMAL RESCUE

(From the book Boston Noir)

Genre: Mystery Drama

Author: Dennis Lehane

Screenwriter: Dennis Lehane

Logline: A bartender finds a pit bull that is believed to have committed a murder.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

(Remake)

Genre: Action Adventure

Author: Alexander Dumas

Screenwriter: Peter Straughan

Logline: D’Artagnan joins forces with three veteran musketeers to stop the evil plans of the villainous Cardinal Richelieu.

TURN OF THE CENTURY

Genre: Satire

Author: Kurt Anderson

Screenwriters: Peter Bogdanovich and Parish Rahbar

Logline: Set in February 2000, a Manhattan power couple with three children tries to manage their trouble marriage.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.9.10)

THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE

Genre: Drama

Author: David Wroblewski

Screenwriter: William Broyles, Jr.

Logline: A teenage mute, who is caught in a long-standing intense family conflict, flees into the Wisconsin woods with three of the extraordinary dogs that his family raises and trains.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Genre: Thriller

Author: Susan Hill

Screenwriter: Jane Goldman

Logline: A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village to take care of a deceased client’s papers. The young man glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black during his stay, leading to the uncovering of a tragic secret.

THE LOST SYMBOL

Genre: Thriller

Author: Dan Brown

Screenwriter: Steven Knight

Logline: Robert Langdon is summoned to Washington, DC where he begins decoding the symbols of the Freemasons. The third in the Da Vinci Code series.

THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE

Genre: Drama

Author: Michael Lewis

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: Chronicles the recent free fall of the American economy.

Book-To-Film: Weekly Adaptation Sales & Options (2.2.10)

THE FARM

From the book My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard Into a Farm

Genre: Drama

Author: Manny Howard

Screenwriter: Donal Lardner Ward

Logline: A Brooklyn husband and father of two battles a career downturn and finds a renewed sense of purpose when transforming his backyard into a working, urban farm

DARK LIFE

Genre: Adventure

Author: Kat Falls

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: Set in a near-future world in which rising ocean levels and natural catastrophes have led some people to homestead on the ocean floor, an underwater teenage boy and a surface girl join forces to uncover a government conspiracy.

FIRE

Genre: Spy Thriller

Author: Brian Michael Bendis

Screenwriter: Not Announced

Logline: A college student is recruited by the CIA, only to find that he has been trained for a program that creates expendable agents.

EAT, SLEEP, POOP: A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO YOUR BABY’S FIRST YEAR

Genre: Comedy

Author: Dr. Scott W. Cohen

Screenwriter: Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson

Logline: A humorous look at raising your newborn.

Page-To-Screen: Youth In Revolt

Author: C.D. Payne

Screenwriter: Gustin Nash

Logline: While his trailer trash parents teeter on the edge of divorce, Nick Twisp sets his sights on dream girl Sheeni Saunders, hoping that she’ll be the one to take away his virginity.

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Page To Screen: “Up In The Air”

UP IN THE AIR

Author: Walter Kim

Screenwriters: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Logline: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.

Screen Cave has an interview with screenwriter Jason Reitman on adapting Up In The Air and Reitman and Sheldon Turner talk about writing the screenplay to Script magazine.

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YOUR TURN: Have you had the opportunity to see the film while in limited release? What do you think of the adaptation?