It seems the coming new year will have Hollywood looking to the book world for inspiration in the film industry. We’ve already seen a fair amount of that this year, what with Enders Game, The Great Gatsby, Catching Fire, and World War Z all hitting the big screen in 2013. Not surprisingly, all were books that sold rather well this year — whether they sold well because of the films, or the films were made because the books had been selling well. The coming year has a number of book adaptions hitting theaters, so book lovers, get pumped — here’s just ten.
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The Giver
Adapted from Lois Lowry’s well-loved novel, The Giver is a classic dystopic tale of a seemingly perfect future society that has a dark side. Lowry spoke with Good Reads about the possibility of a movie in 2012, but said that the pace and content of the book had made a film adaption difficult.
“It seems to me that they all seem to be much more action packed (other books). They’ve been trying to make a movie of The Giver, but there’s not a lot of action in it. It’s relatively easy to make a move of The Hunger Games,” said Lowry — though she noted that the lack of action doesn’t really take away from the quality and importance of the book. “The Giver continues to be just as popular as it always has been.” The film will star Brenton Thwaites as Jonas, Jeff Bridges as the Giver, and will have Taylor Swift appearing as Rosemary.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Anyone who has a love of comic books will be pleased to hear that Sin Citywon’t end with its first movie adaption. The previous film, from back in 2005, covered a number of different story-lines from the comic series. The second film is likely to do so as well, drawing multiple characters from the written work into the movie.
Once again, Frank Miller — comic writer and artist — will be involved in the film, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, and Mickey Rourke will also be returning to play their original roles. Considering the popularity of comic books turned movies, Sin City’s second appearance on the big screen seems a good.
Vampire Academy
Vampires — they’re big everywhere, in movies, books, manga, television, you name it — they’ve made an appearance. There’s Twilight of course, the CW’s Vampire Diaries — not to mention True Blood and all of Ann Rice’s contributions. Basically the list could go on forever, and judging by Richelle Mead’s theater-bound Vampire Academy, it very well may.
Mead’s book series is targeted towards twelve-year olds and up, and judging by the jawline of the cast will probably draw plenty of hormone-rich viewers. The protagonist, Rose, played by Zoey Deutch, is a half-human/half-vampire in training at St. Vladimir’s Academy. Buckle up — there will be boys, plus plenty of evil vampire adversaries.
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