Book to Movie Adaptations for 2011! Hooray!
There are a ton of Book to Movie adaptations that I’m looking forward to in 2011. You should too! Even if you don’t like them and you’re one of those huge whiner babies who leaves the theatre being like But I LIKED THE BOOK BETTERRRRR. Let’s call a rose a rose and move forward, shall we?
From IMDB: Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin’s bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.
Expected release date: July 8th 2011
This is the first book in a 15 or 16 book series that I think is ongoing. The character has a fun voice- she’s a tough lady from New Jersey. It’s one of those paperback mystery novels that you find in the drug store about a young woman who becomes a bounty hunter and has all of these attractive guys falling in love with her all the time. They’re a good read and despite the fact that I really, really, really am not a Katherine Heigl fan I think it will be exciting to see her play someone who isn’t a hyperventilating girly girl.
From IMDB: A look at what happens when a southern town’s unspoken code of rules and behavior is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.
Expected Release Date: August 12 2011
Missing from the photo is Emma Stone, who starred in one of my favourite movies of 2010- Easy A. She is the third star of this huge cast that follows three women who live in a small town in Mississippi. It’s a character driven novel which I’m sure a lot of book clubs read and moms opened on christmas morning. The voices are really strong and I think it will translate to the screen almost painlessly.
From IMDB: The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart. The trailer is way cooler.
Expected Release Date: March 4th 2011
This is technically based on a short story by Phillip K. Dick called Adjustment Team which I haven’t read, but the concept looks way awesome. Way to go Matt Damon! I tried to find the script on the internet but no dice. Looks like I’ll just have to be entertained on March 4th like the rest of you suckers.
From IMDB: A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret.
Expected Release Date: March 11 2011
BORING. And that actress is annoying.
From IMDB:A copywriter discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities. Watch the Trailer. Also way cool.
Expected Release Date: March 18 2011
Looks Good. Haven’t read the book. Writers are never as good looking as Bradley Cooper but the rest sounds like recipe for a fun action movie.
From IMDB: A veterinary student abandons his studies after his parents are killed and joins a traveling circus as their vet.
Expected Release Date: April 22 2001
The book was a real snooze and the cast looks kind of wonky.
From IMDB: A woman looks back at the past twenty men she’s had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.
Expected Release Date: April 29 2011
The original book title was “Twenty Times a Lady” and came out in the Sophie Kinsella driven chick-lit phase of the early 2000s. It’s funny that I’ve read it because I don’t think it was extremely popular at all. But the film has a fun cast (Anna Faris is the lead.) I question the IMDB description because the book was about a woman who had 20 uhm, relations with men, if you get my drift. Definitely not relationships. It’s definitely a story that could have been changed a lot during the adaptation process. We’ll see!
From IMDB: Friendships are tested and secrets come to the surface when terminally single Rachel falls for Dex, her best friend Darcy’s fiancé.
Expected Release Date: May 6 2011
Known widely as more ‘literary’ in style than most other chick-lit offerings of the early 2000′s, Something Borrowed is kind of an annoying read. It’s interesting and the characters are realistic though, if you can get past the attempt at making an overdone topic melodramatically ‘intelligent’ it’s good enough. The movie should be fun to watch though. Ginnifer Goodwin is the hero and I, personally like being on her side. Maybe it’s because she’s kind of funny looking. The screenplay is being adapted as a first feature by a TV writer so it could be really interesting and possibly a bit unconventional.
From IMDB: The story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Expected Release Date: September 23 2011
A sports movie in 2011? Santa does exist!
what! how can you neglect to mention the most exciting adaptation of 2011
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
how have I never heard of this??