ONTD Reading Challenge January: Read a Book That is Being Adapted into a Movie or TV Show in 2019!
The January task for the ONTD READING CHALLENGE is to read a book that is being adapted into a movie or tv show in 2019. To help you pick your book of the month, hjalmartazar and yours truly have selected some of the coolest-sounding upcoming adaptations.
The books listed here are not the only ones being adapted in 2019, so if none of these catches your eye, you can always read something else! Check out the sources for more titles, but always check to see if the adaptation is really scheduled for 2019 (Death on the Nile, for example, has already been pushed back to 2020, and films like The Rosie Project that are vaguely "in development" with no premiere date in sight, stills or trailer, are probably stuck in development hell).
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt) - October
Adaptation cast: Nicole Kidman, Ansel Potato, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wolfhard
Book summary: Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Woman in the Window (AJ Finn) - October 4
Adaptation cast: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore
Book summary: Anna Fox lives alone-a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble-and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
Pet Sematary (Stephen King) - April 5
Click to viewAdaptation cast: John Lithgow
Book summary: When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.
Lovecraft Country (Matt Ruff) - HBO series
Adaptation cast: Aunjanue Ellis, Jonathan Majors, Michael Kenneth Williams
Book summary: Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George-publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide-and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite-heir to the estate that owned Atticus’s great grandmother-they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn-led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb-which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his-and the whole Turner clan’s-destruction.
Nos4a2 (Joe Hill) - AMC series
Adaptation cast: Ashleigh Cummings, Zachary Quinto
Book summary: Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing - and terrifying - playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.” Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble-and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.
Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) - August 9
Adaptation cast: Judi Dench, Ferdia Shaw, Josh Gad, Miranda Raison, Hong Chau
Book summary: Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius-and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories-they're dangerous!
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) - December 25
Adaptation cast: Emma Watson, Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet, Laura Dern
Book summary: Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.
All the Bright Places (Jennifer Niven)
Adaptation cast: Elle Fanning, Justice Smith, Luke Wilson, Keegan-Michael Key
Book summary: Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself-a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) - Hulu series
Adaptation cast: George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Kyle Chandler
Book summary: Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch...
The Sun is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon) - May 17
Adaptation cast: Yara Shahidi, Charles Melton
Book summary: Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love.
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