NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: THE LAST ANIMAL, MIKE NICHOLS: A LIFE TO BECOME MOVIES, THE OTHER VALLEY AND NEUROMANCER TO BECOME SF TV SERIES

   NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS  

RAMONA AUSUBEL'S THE LAST ANIMAL 

The Last Animal will be turned into a movie

Walden Media is turning Ramona Ausubel's award winning novel THE LAST ANIMAL into a movie helmed by Ry Russo-Young. It follows teenaged sisters Eve and Vera, unexpectedly spending summer vacation on their mother’s scientific expedition. Fooling around in the permafrost, the sisters accidentally uncover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth. The discovery sends mother and daughters from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world — or at least their family. 

THE OTHER VALLEY SF TV SERIES

The Other Valley is out this week in bookshops

Meanwhile, Working Title is developing a TV series adaptation of Scott Alexander Howard's upcoming fantasy book THE OTHER VALLEY. Out this March in bookshops, this speculative fiction book is set in a town that is physically neighbored by its own future and past. Grieving residents can seek permission to visit a past version of their town on the other side of the mountains, hiking back in time to get one last look at somebody they’ve lost. The novel follows a candidate training to oversee such requests, who accidentally spots two visitors from the future: the grieving parents of the boy she loves. 

MIKE NICHOLS: A LIFE GETS A MOVIE

Peter Spears will produce the movie drama

Over in United Kingdom, Nomadland's producer Peter Spears has optioned movie rights for MIKE NICHOLS: A LIFE by Mark Harris and the movie will depict his 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? high-stakes collaboration with the film’s two married stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The book captures the moment that a first-time filmmaker found himself thrust into a front-row seat for one of the most scandalous love affairs ever to rock Hollywood, indeed, the entire world, a time when Taylor and Burton were on the front page of every newspaper, and denounced on the floor of Congress and in the halls of the Vatican.

Apple TV Plus is making Neuromancer series

NEUROMANCER SERIES AT APPLE TV PLUS

Apple TV Plus has taken the rights on classic sf novel from William Gibson NEUROMANCER and is turning it into a ten episode sf series. Graham Roland will be the showrunner of the series which will follow a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. The cyberpunk novel won most of the big sf awards and was the first in a trilogy of sf novels.