HOLLYWOOD SPY'S PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON MOVIE AND TV BOOK ADAPTATIONS WE CAN EXPECT IN 2022: FROM CLASSICS TO MODERN NOVELS AND BESTSELLERS

 2022 MOVIE & TV ADAPTATIONS

ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT

A movie adaptation of Remarque's seminal war classic ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT should arrive to Netflix sometime this year and you can see above the first exclusive photo of Daniel Bruhl in the story of the hopelessness and tragedy of soldiers trapped in the brutal war. The movie was shot in German language.

JANE AUSTEN'S PERSUASION

Yet another new adaptation of Jane Austen's work arrives also to Netflix this year, this time Regency Era set PERSUASION starring Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot who falls in love with the dashing Captain Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), but leaves him under the pressure of her family. She meets him years after when her family is broke. Henry Golding and Richard E. Grant also star.

THE STARS AT NOON

This one is also period set with the story going on in the 1980's Nicaragua where in the middle of the political upheaval rising stars Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley fall in love surrounded by violence. He is a rich businessman, she is a journalist in the film based on the book by Denis Johnson.

THE WONDER AT NETFLIX

Also streaming sometime this year on Netflix is movie adaptation of Emma Donoghue's THE WONDER with Florence Pugh leading the cast as a nurse in the 19th century story about about a young girl from Ireland who begins a fast for spiritual reasons and seemingly suffers no physical harm, surviving for a month without food or drink.

WW2 THE NIGHTINGALE

Christmas 2022 will bring into cinemas a big screen adaptation of Kristin Hannah's THE NIGHTINGALE in which Dakota and Ella Fanning play two sisters Vianne and Isabelle, who take different paths trying to survive the Nazis who occupied France during World War II!

WHITE BIRD

WW2 will also be the subject in the September 2022 movie adaptation of R.J. Palacio's WHITE BIRD with Helen Mirren playing a grandmother, who tells her grandson her remarkable story of being a young Jewish girl in France who was hidden from the Nazis by her classmate’s family.

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

You can also check out the first photo of Haris Dickinson, Daisy Edgar Jones and Reese Witherspoon in the film version of Delia Owens' WHERE THE CRAWDAD'S SING, the coming-of-age story set on the North Carolina coast unfolding the mystery of how a woman who grew up isolated in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in a murder. The film arrives in July.

MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS

The big screen version of Paul Gallico's classic book MRS HARRIS GOES TO PARIS should arrive this March with Lesley Manville playing Ada Harris, a widowed cleaning lady from the 1950s London, who becomes obsessed with owning a gown from House of Dior in Paris. Jason Isaacs and Isabelle Huppert also star. 

DAISY JONES AND THE SIX

Best selling book by Taylor Jenkins Reid on the imaginary rock band DAISY JONES AND THE SIX is arriving to Amazon this year in the form of a series depicting rise and fall of the titular Fleetwood Mac-esque fictionalrock band in the 1970s. Riley Keough plays Daisy Jones, an enigmatic solo artist who rises to rock-superstardom when she teams up with The Six, a band whose pompous frontman is played by Sam Claflin.

MR. MALCOLM'S LIST

Suzanne Allain wrote the script for the movie version of her own book MR. MALCOLM'S LIST which will stream on Netflix this year starring Freida Pinto, Theo James and Oliver Jackson Cohen in a story about a young woman in 1800s England who enlists the help of her friend to get revenge on a suitor who rejected her for failing a requirement on his list. 

ITV'S TOM JONES

ITV and PBS Masterpiece are, meanwhile, turning Henry Fielding's popular classic TOM JONES into a period set mini series in which Solly McLeod will play the titular 18th century foundling on his way to find love, happiness and fortune. Poldark's Mammoth Screen is producing.

DUCHESS OF MALFI

New movie adaptation of John Webster's play will star Morfydd Clark, Dominic Cooper, Sam Riley, Freddie Fox and Frank Dillane, following the recently widowed Duchess who falls in love with her steward Antonio. Their union sets in motion a conflict with her cruel and vengeful brothers, the Cardinal and Ferdinand, who enlist the spy Bosola to keep her from escaping their control.

THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE

You will also watch Theo James in HBO's TV series adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE! It will follow Clare (Rose Leslie) who meets and falls with Henry (Theo James), a man who suffers a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel at random. The story chronicles their life together as Henry darts through time, appearing to Clare both in her childhood and in her old age.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

Recently deceased Anne Rice did not live up to see the small screen adaptation of her INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE but it is quite possible that the series which is currently shooting will air at the end of the year at AMC. It follows Louis de Pointe du Lac as he recounts how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt to be played by our dearest Sam Reid.