HOLLYWOOD SPY'S GUIDE
THROUGH 2018 TEEN MOVIES
You will see a lot of teenage novel big screen adaptations in the fresh 2018, people, from latest Maze Runner movie to the movie versions of Ernest
Cline's Ready Player One from Steven Spielberg, Alexandra Bracken's Darkest Minds, Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places (with Elle Fanning), Garrard Conley's Boy Erased (with Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe), Jenny Han's To All the Boys I Loved Before and Peter Bognanni's The House of Tomorrow.
Jennifer Niven's book was translated by yours truly |
DID YOU KNOW?
Emily Danforth's The MisEducation of Cameron Post with Cloe Moretz is out this month too! John Bellair's The House with a Clock in Its Walls will star Cate Blanchett! Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle will star Alexandra Daddario! Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines movie is out December!
'LOVE, SIMON'
1ST BIG STUDIO GAY ROMANCE
Nick Robinson is Simon in love! |
Love, Simon is out in cinemas this April |
LOVE, SIMON
wants you to know that everyone deserves a great love story. But for Simon it's
complicated: no-one knows he's gay and he doesn't know who the anonymous
classmate is that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves
hilarious, scary and life changing. The movie comes from the same producers who brought is The Fault in Our Stars! The actor who plays Blue, the boy Simon is in love, is being kept a secret!
'EVERY DAY'
FROM DAVID LEVITHAN
David Levithan's Every Day is out April |
'PLEASE STAND BY'
STARRING DAKOTA FANNING!
The first one out, as soon as next week January 26th is touchingly beautiful PLEASE STAND BY in which Dakota Fanning plays
a young autistic
woman who runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition. Toni Collette also stars.
Enchantingly warm and beautiful Please Stand By is out next week |
Definitely looks like lots of YA!
ReplyDelete~Jess
thankfully more heartwarming ones than cold dystopia
DeleteYou know I'll be on the lookout for All The Bright Places. It was such a lovely book. I am sure the movie will be a real tearjerker as well.
ReplyDeleteI hope the movie will be better since the book had a lot of bad places and the ending was poorly done, the movie could fix it, give meaning to all the places they've been to (the book covers is superficially) and end the film with the chapter from Finch, minutes before he drowns himself (which book does not have even though it would've given it a depth it lacked due to Jennifer's habit to rush things up and lose the thread somewhere at the middle of the book which was also the proble mwith Holding Up the Universe). And hope they find a really great actor for Finch.
DeleteWell, it is Indiana. We don't have many gems to visit here lol. I am looking forward to who they cast as Finch and Violet alike. I do have a feeling that the movie will play out a little better than the book.
DeleteI never did read Holding Up The Universe, though it is in my online wish list at my library. Eventually, I will get to it.
Nevermind, I did read it. Wasn't very memorable I suppose. I liked All The Bright Places much better. I remember just reading it out of the sense that since I started it I might as well finish it. Definitely not one of my favorite reads.
DeleteIt was good till the middle when she turns it into a cheap love story and a rather implausible one instead of just making it a coming of age story about how the two of them, Libby and Jack, dealt with their health issues and came out of the battle stronger. The love story was just kitschy and mediocre.
DeleteSpot on. You should tweet her and tell her how to make her next novel better ;)
Deleteshe definitely needs me as her editor, I'm shocked how some US publisher hasn't hired me already as their editor I'd bring some quality into the YA mess in no time
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DeleteBecause the US has its head up its ass where talent is concerned. We need more Dezzy's to set things right. I demand it! (Not that that has even done much good, but at least I put it out there in the universe lol) I see blogger is finally publishing comments a lot faster. Weeeeeee!
DeleteI've noticed Blogger is back to normal too! But now Facebook is not OK.
DeleteAll of these look JUST EXCELLENT! I will watch for them all in the theatres.
ReplyDeleteas someone who works in YA publishing, I'm more than happy that this year will have more of these meaningful teen stories than gorry YA dystopia.
DeleteA "Star Trek" writing competition... Whatever you do, girl, don't send it to Disney.
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