NEW BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATIONS: HEARTSTRING DUET DARK ROMANTASY HORROR FROM LIV ZANDER AND AM I THE WAVE BASED ON SAY HER NAME FROM FRANCISCO GOLDMAN

    NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS   

HEARTSTRING DUET MADE INTO A FILM

Two new upcoming book adaptations for you today, starting with dark romantasy horror HEARTSTRING DUET series which consists

The book was self-published in April

 of two books Crown Me Dead and Crown Me Yours and which will get a movie treatment at Sony Pictures. Written by Liv Zander it is set in a kingdom cursed by a deadly plague, where Elara, the daughter of gravediggers, tends to the dead alongside what remains of her family. When her brother falls ill, a mysterious palace steward offers her a bargain that could save his life: seduce the reclusive king and make him fall in love with her, breaking the curse by dying at his hand. But as Elara uncovers the truth behind the curse, she must decide whether to become a willing sacrifice or fight for her own survival.It has been translated into 14 languages so far.

  

SAY HER NAME FEATURE ADAPTATION

Also getting a big screen movie treatment is Francisco Goldman's Say Her Name book based on his own life which will be titled as AM I THE WAVE? in movie take. Alejandra Márquez Abella is directing with Manuel García-Rulfo and Renata Vaca in the lead roles. It follows Francisco, an American novelist splitting his time between New York and Mexico, and Aura, a fellow writer and force of nature fighting to establish herself on her own terms. Their love story is passionate, funny, intellectual, and deeply alive, until a single, tragic wave on a beach in Oaxaca changes everything. 

 

 

EMILE ZOLA'S CLASSIC NOVEL NANA TO BE TURNED INTO A 19TH CENTURY SET MOVIE DRAMA

    ZOLA'S NANA   

TO BE TURNED INTO A MOVIE DRAMA

Olivier Dahan will direct the movie

Under the French Greek co-production, and with the support of France Télévision and Canal+, Emile Zola's classic novel NANA will be turned into a movie by director Olivier Dahan known for La Vie en Rose. The book tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. She grows up in the slums of Paris and then has a brief career as an untalented actress before finding success as a courtesan. Although vulgar and ignorant, she has a destructive sexuality that attracts many rich and powerful men. Cruelly contemptuous of her lovers’ emotions, Nana wastes their fortunes, driving many of them to ruin and even suicide.

DANIELE STEEL'S 200TH BOOK MANHATTAN SET THE WHITTIERS TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES

   THE WHITTIERS TV SERIES  

BASED ON DANIELE STEEL'S BOOK

It was her 200th book and Daniele Steel's book THE WHITTIERS will now be turned into a TV series by Cottage Industry Entertainment. It is a heartwarming story about the importance of family, home and being true to yourself. Connie and Preston Whittier raised their six children in a 

The book will become a TV series

once-grand Manhattan mansion. With the kids now grown-up, the family home remains somewhere they all love to return to. But on Connie and Preston’s annual skiing holiday in Europe, an avalanche hits their resort, resulting in unspeakable tragedy. Struggling to process their loss, each member of the Whittier family must also face their own personal struggles. Lyle is successful, but has an unhappy marriage, and Gloria is a genius on Wall Street but deeply lonely. Twins Caroline and Charlie work all hours on their growing fashion brand, but have no time to enjoy life. Benjie has personal challenges and requires additional support, and rebellious Annabelle has fallen in with a bad crowd. With the future of the family, and their home, in jeopardy, the siblings must come together to support one another, and each one must learn the importance of being true to oneself.

TV NEWS: TONI COLLETTE TO LEAD DRAMEDY SERIES LENNI AT APPLE TV +, THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER TO BE TURNED INTO TV SERIES

   LATEST TELEVISION NEWS  

TONI COLLETTE TO LEAD LENNI SERIES

Apple TV + has cast Toni Collette as the lead of their new dramedy series LENNI next to Ciaran Hinds, Dan Wyllie, Josh McKenzie, Celeste

Toni Collette will lead the new series

Barber, Genevieve Hegney, Arka Das and Wayne Blair. Toni will play a divorced social worker who, after a family tragedy, tries to protect her loved ones from the rough-and-tumble of life. It is a darkly comedic mystery about family — what it means to have one, to lose one, to pull one apart. Lenni, a child welfare worker and divorced mother of two, spends her days fighting for other people’s families while her own is in a constant state of hilarious chaos. The season will follow Lenni through a new case, where the stakes couldn’t be higher as her work and personal life collide. 

  

The book has become a massive hit

THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE

Down in Australia Easy Tiger company has bought TV series rights on THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE hit book by Dervla McTiernan. Shaun Grant will pen the script for the series which tells the story of three seemingly unconnected people caught in a lethal web of deceit and unhealed wounds. Three mysterious gifts are delivered to three very different houses in Melbourne; each gift is perfectly tailored to its recipient – and each will tear apart the life of its intended victim. Easy Tiger previously did The Twelve, Scrublands and Territory series! 

 

NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: HOUSE OF HUDSON HISTORICAL SERIES ON THE FOUNDATION OF CANADA, AND NETHER STATION AND NETHER VORTEX SF MOVIES FROM PAUL W.S. ANDERSON

  NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS 

RISE AND FALL OF HUDSON BAY EMPIRE

The book will be turned into a TV series

As Deadline reports, Canadian Titan1Studios will develop HOUSE OF HUDSON historical series based on Stephen R. Bown‘s historical book The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1820s, the story of the series will be exploring the bloody war of attrition between the Hudson’s Bay Company and its hyper-violent rival, the North West Company, culminating in their forced corporate merger and the ruthless rise of Sir George Simpson, the cold-blooded governor known as ‘The Little Emperor.' The story will shift between the opulent, scheming boardrooms of London and Montreal and the unforgiving wilderness.

  

NETHER STATION & NETHER VORTEX

A completely different, but also epic genre will be Paul W.S. Anderson's movie adaptations of sf books NETHER STATION and NETHER VORTEX by Kevin J. Anderson. The novels follow Cammie Skoura, a brilliant, neurodivergent young scientist aboard a deep-space expedition that uncovers a trail of ancient ruins and long-dead alien civilizations leading toward a mind-shattering discovery. The filmmaker is known for his adaptations of Resident Evil games.

 

JOSH O'CONNOR, DAMIAN LEWIS, PATSY FERRAN, LESLEY MANVILLE SET FOR PERIOD SET GOTHIC MOVIE JACK OF SPADES AT NETFLIX

    JACK OF SPADES   

NETFLIX GOTHIC MOVIE SETS LEAD CAST

Joel Coen is set to direct the gothic mystery movie adaptation JACK OF SPADES of Frederica Montresor classic novel The Alien: A Story of Middle Age, a story of intrigue and betrayal set in the Scottish Highlands, which will star Patsy Ferran, Josh O’Connor, Damian Lewis and Lesley Manville. To arrive in Fall 2027, it sets lead character Esther Mordaunt in a bleak, gray English estate, where memories and a chance friendship begin to reshape what middle age might mean. Esther, now well into her thirties invites a world of experience into Applehurst and we follow her evolving bond with Jasper, a traveler with a vivid past and a talent for storytelling. Through his tales of sailing, revolutions, and distant lands, the story explores how a single life can stretch across time, risk, and longing without losing its humanity.

SARAH MACLEAN'S BESTSELLING BOOK THESE SUMMER STORMS TO BE TURNED INTO A HULU SERIES

  THESE SUMMER STORMS  

GETTING TV ADAPTATION AT HULU

The book has been a global hit

Erin and Sara Foster are set to executive produce the TV series adaptation of Sarah MacLean's hit book THESE SUMMER STORMS over at Hulu. Already translated in numerous languages around the world the 2025 book follows Alice Storm who hasn’t been welcome at her family’s magnificent private island off the Rhode Island coast in five years — not since she was cast out and built her life beyond the Storm name, influence, and untold billions. But the shocking death of her larger-than-life father changes everything. I can tell you that while reading the book last summer I had a strong feeling that somebody will turn it into a series. It is a good story about a dysfunctional rich family for the small screens. 

PHILIPPA NORTHEAST, MICHELLE DOCKERY, GENEVIEVE O'REILLY TO END UP ON A TROPICAL ISLAND IN NEW NETFLIX ADVENTURE THRILLER SERIES FERAL

    FERAL TV SERIES   

TO SHOOT FOR NETFLIX IN AUSTRALIA

Netflix has ordered their new Australian original series FERAL based on the book Savages by Shirley Conran. This thrilling, darkly funny story of adventure and survival will star Michelle Dockery, Jessica Gunning, Genevieve O’Reilly and Philippa Northeast. Four very different women accompany their mining executive husbands on a corporate holiday to a beautiful but lethal tropical island. When the men’s shady deals land them all in danger, the women must learn to survive the jungle – and each other. Can they put aside their differences, self-doubts and vanities to stay alive?

FRANCIS LAWRENCE TO HELM MOVIE ADAPTATION OF LEGENDARY 'RED RISING' SF NOVEL BY PIERCE BROWN FOR PARAMOUNT

    RED RISING   

MOVIE ADAPTATION FINDS A DIRECTOR

The whole saga has six books

More than ten years ago our favourite sf saga was supposed to be directed by  Mark Forster but that did not happen and now it has been announced that Francis Lawrence will helm the movie adaptation of Pierce Brown's novel RED RISING for Paramount! The sf tale takes place on desolate Mars, where the protagonist Darrow is caught in a class system that thrives on oppression and secrecy. He is a Red, the lowest member of society, born to toil in the bowels of the planet in service to the sovereign Golds. When he suffers a devastating loss and betrayal he becomes a revolutionary, out to bring about social justice. Questions of fate, duality, and loyalty, evolve in a cruel test of war between the sons and daughters of the ruling elite. Justin Rhodes is penning the script according to the Hollywood Reporter.

CAST ANNOUNCED FOR NEW NETFLIX POLISH ORIGINAL PERIOD SET TV SERIES NIGHTS AND DAYS BASED ON THE MARIA DABROWSKA CLASSIC

    NIGHTS AND DAYS   

NEW PERIOD SET NETFLIX POLISH SERIES

After recent Lalka, Netflix has started shooting their new eight part Polish original series NIGHTS AND DAYS based on Maria Dabrowska's famous classic with Tomasz Schuchardt and Jaśmina Polak in the lead roles. At a time when Poland has long been absent from the map of Europe, Barbara Ostrzenska a proud, but impoverished noblewoman learns that her great love is marrying another woman. Determined to escape spinsterhood,

Tomasz Schuchardt played the lead in The Doll series as well

 she marries Bogumil Niechcic, a modest former insurgent and property manager. His peace of mind and sense of fulfillment that his work gives him contrast with her restless nature. Over the thirty years shown on screen, they build a life together in the countryside, but Barbara’s yearning for passion and lost status constantly clashes with her daily reality. Disappointed with life, yet in a sense fulfilled in it, Barbara remains a constant challenge for her loved ones and for herself. It spans from the aftermath of the 1863 January Uprising through World War I.

THE TITANIC STORY OF EVELYN AUSTRALIAN BESTSELLER TO BE TURNED INTO A PERIOD SET TV SERIES

 THE TITANIC STORY OF EVELYN 

TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES

The Set Up production house from Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Alison Hurbert-Burns will turn Lisa Wilkinson Australian

The book was released this April

 bestseller THE TITANIC STORY OF EVELYN into a TV series. It tells the true story of Evelyn Marsden, the only Australian-born survivor of the Titanic. Evelyn started working as a stewardess on ocean liners before meeting and falling in love with a handsome ship’s doctor, William Abel James. Fate separated the couple when Evelyn boarded the RMS Titanic alone for its maiden voyage. As events unfolded, she helped save the lives of many passengers in the face of one of the greatest maritime tragedies the world has ever known. Evelyn and William’s love endures many of the 20th century’s most momentous events, through World War One and the Great Depression, before they settle by the sea at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

MARTIN FREEMAN, JIM BROADBENT, JOE ARMSTRONG TO LEAD THIS YEAR'S GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS - THE BRIDE'S CHAMBER FROM DICKENS

  THE BRIDE'S CHAMBER 

NEW GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

BBC has announced this year's Ghost Story for Christmas, a series of short dramas in which every year Mark Gatiss adapts one of classic ghost stories for festive days of December. This year it will be THE BRIDE'S CHAMBER a Charles Dickens chilling tale set in 1858. An inn with no name, an eccentric landlord and a lone traveller with a strangely familiar appearance. As he settles into his room for the night, the traveller is visited by an uncanny man in black, with a story to tell. Jim Broadbent, Martin Freeman, Adrian Scarborough and Joe Armstrong will star in the tale of a spurned and vengeful suitor who manipulates a young woman and marries her to claim her fortune. But his murderous plans create his own purgatory.

SEE CHARACTER POSTERS WITH VINCENT LINDON AND TAHAR RAHIM IN NEW FRENCH MOVIE ADAPTATION OF VICTOR HUGO'S LES MISERABLES

    LES MISERABLES   

New Les Miserables arrive this October

NEW MOVIE ADAPTATION  POSTERS

After the Musketeers and Count Monte Cristo another big screen novel adaptation in France will be LES MISE-  RABLES done this time by Studio canal and Fred Cavaye and we have brand new character posters for you today as the movie will be released in French theatres this month. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary uprisings in France, it follows the character of Jean Valjean, a peasant sentenced to five years’ hard labour for stealing a loaf of bread whose story spans several years as he is released from prison and reintegrated into society, yet pursued by a police inspector on his trail. Vincent Lindon plays Jean Valjean, with Tahar Rahim as his nemesis Inspector Javert. Benjamin Lavernhe and Camille Cottin are evil innkeepers Thénardier and Madame Thénardier. Noemie Merlant plays the tragic figure of Fantine, whose daughter, Cosette, Valjean takes in as his own.The movie is scheduled to arrive to the cinemas on October 14th 2026. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think, would you watch it?

 

NEW LARGE SCALE HISTORICAL SERIES BASED ON LEGENDARY BEN HUR IS READY TO START NEXT WEEK

    BEN HUR   

NEW HISTORICAL SERIES ARRIVES NEXT WEEK

I am taking you on a far away trip again, this Sunday all the way over to Brazil as they are preparing to launch new historical small screen 

The series starts next week

adaptation of famous BEN HUR which will arrive to their streamer Univer Video next week October 9th in a new more spiritual version with mammoth number of fifty episodes! Vinicius Redd takes the lead role of a Jewish prince caught between Roman power and a friendship under strain. Biblical setting and large-scale production frame a tense story of faith, identity and survival.

  

THE SERIES FOLLOWS

Judá Ben-Hur, a privileged Jewish prince whose world is unsettled by imperial pressure and the fragile bond he shares with Messala (Romulo Weber), a close friend whose allegiance is increasingly uncertain. Based on Lew Wallace's classic story, the series frames power, faith, romance and survival through an atmosphere of political danger and personal strain.Judá begins from a

Ben Hur will have fifty episodes

 position of wealth and status, but his identity is inseparable from the divided land around him. Roman authority presses into private life, while family loyalty, cultural belonging and political danger pull him in different directions. What can protect a sheltered heir when ordinary people are already living with the consequences of occupation? Messala is Judá's longtime friend, but his connection to Roman power places affection and duty on opposite sides of the same political world. His uncertain allegiance gives the story its emotional pressure, leaving Judá caught between personal trust and public danger. The cast also includes Bia Arantes as Ester, Felipe Cardoso as Baltazar, Juliano Laham as Barrabas... Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

NETFLIX TO MAKE TV SERIES OUT OF AMERICAN ROYALS BOOK WHICH ENVISIONS AMERICA WITH A KING

   AMERICAN ROYALS  

NETFLIX MAKING A NEW TV SERIES

The book will be turned into a series

According to Deadline, Netflix has nabbed TV adaptation rights on AMERICAN ROYALS young adult fantasy book by Katharine McGee which imagines an alternate history where George Washington was anointed king of the United States instead of being elected President and chronicles the lives of his young dependents. As customary for the YA adult genre, there is romance, with two princesses vying for the ultimate crown and two girls vying for the prince’s heart. Ted Malawer is penning the script after working on Prime Video's Red, White and Royal Blue. The book series itself has four books.

CHANNEL 4 ANNOUNCES MYSTERY THRILLER SERIES THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED BASED ON VANESSA SAVAGE'S BOOK

  THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED 

CHANNEL 4 ORDERS NEW MYSTERY THRILLER

Channel 4 has ordered a new six part mystery thriller series THE NIGHT THEY VANISHED which follows Anna (Gabrielle Creevy), whose world is blown apart when she discovers her childhood house listed on a true-crime website as the scene of her family’s future deaths. Intriguing blind date Cai (Callum Scott Howells) runs the true-crime site but swears he didn’t post it. The police say it’s a hoax, but Anna’s family have vanished. It is based on Vanessa Savage's novel.

FIRST IMAGES OF ANNA FRIEL IN CHANNEL 5 TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF LOUISE CANDLISH NOVEL THE HEIGHTS

    ANNA FRIEL IMAGES   

FROM THE HEIGHTS NEW CHANNEL 5 SERIES

Channel 5 has back in June announced work on new six episode series adaptation of Louise Candlish novel THE HEIGHTS with Anna Friel aslead and today we have the first images from it. She plays Ellen, who is happily living in London, a working mum, devoted to her family and fiercely protective of her children. But when her teenage son Lucas (Kit Redding), brings new friend Kieran (Conrad Khan) home, cracks began to appear in Ellen’s family life. Kieran is rude, reckless and manipulative – leading Lucas astray, wasting his promise. As Lucas falls deeper under Kieran’s influence, Ellen becomes increasingly desperate to protect him — but a devastating tragedy leaves her consumed by grief, rage and a growing obsession with the truth. Jumping between the past and present day, family secrets and lies unravel in this thrilling new series that is coming soon to Channel 5.

GORGEOUS TRAILER FOR THE EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF PUSHKIN'S LEGENDARY NOVEL THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER IS HERE!

  THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER  

FIRST EPIC TV SERIES TRAILER IS HERE

Most of you know that I pretty much raised myself as a child reading famous classics, and Russian ones were among my favourites

The series will arrive soon to Iri and Kion

especially Pushkin! His legendary and only completed novel THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER (Капитанская дочка) is being adapted into an eight part series and today I have the first gorgeous trailer for you with English subs! The series will stream on Russian streamer Kion and will have its linear TV premiere on their national broadcaster Rossiya 1!

 

 WHAT IS THE STORY?

By the decision of his father, the sixteen-year-old nobleman Peter Grinev (Oleg Savostyuk) instead in the capital's guard goes to serve in the Belogorsk fortress. On the way during a fierce blizzard, he meets an unfamiliar Cossack - Emelian Pugachev (Evgeny Tkachuk) Not knowing who it is, Grinev, touched by pity and simplicity of the heart, shares with him his oath to elope. Arriving in the fortress, Peter falls in love with the daughter of commandant Masha (Evgenia Leonov) His feeling turns out to be mutual. However, Petya has a rival – Alexey Schwabrin (Yegor Koreshkov), a lieutenant, decorated and exiled to the Belogorsk because of a duel. From jealousy, Schwabrin tries to harm Grinev with all his might. Meanwhile, Pugachev declares himself Emperor Peter the Third, miraculously saved from death, and gathers a motley army. The Pugachev uprising is rapidly gaining strength, the rebels take one fortress after another. The capture of the Belogorsk fortress by the army of Pugachev will turn the fate of Grinev and Masha. They must chose between honor or life, bitter adulthood and sacrifice for the sake love. Our dear Sergey Bezrukov plays the role of Grinev's father. See the trailer below:

 

SEE FIRST LOOK AT MATTHEW MACFADYEN AND CHARLIE HUNNAM IN LEGACY OF SPIES BBC TV SERIES WITH DANIEL BRUHL, DAN STEVENS, HUGH LAURIE, JOE ALWYN, JAMES MCARDLE

    LEGACY OF SPIES   

BBC TV SERIES UNVEILS FIRST IMAGES

After casting Matthew MacFadyen as the lead in their LEGACY OF SPIES TV series adaptation of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold book, in which he stars as the iconic George Smiley, alongside Charlie Hunnam as Alec Leamas, the maverick field operative, BBC has unveiled first images of the two of them. Daniel Brühl also stars as Josef Fiedler, a methodical Stasi intelligence strategist, Devrim Lingnau as Doris Quinz, a young and dynamic East German woman who delivers vital intelligence from the heart of the East German operatio, and Dan Stevens as Bill Haydon, a brilliant and enigmatic Circus insider, with Hugh Laurie, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, Adam Hugill and Goran Bogdan also starring in the eight part series which will air sometime next year, on MGM + for viewers in USA.

STAN REVEALS CAST FOR THE TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF STUCK UP & STUPID A MODERN DAY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE REIMAGINATION

    STUCK UP & STUPID   

TV SERIES ADAPTATION ANNOUNCED

Australian streamer Stan has announced that they will make an eight episode series out of STUCK UP & STUPID Jane Austen Pride And Prejudice modern reimagining novel by Angourie Rice and Kate Rice, a multi-generational story about family, friendship, romance and fame! When a

Yvonne Strahovski, Angourie Rice, Brendon Tremblay will star

 group of Hollywood stars arrives at the secluded Pippi Beach for the summer, local Lily Bennet quickly finds herself clashing with the superficial and arrogant movie star Dorian Khan. But as circumstance and undeniable chemistry continue to throw them together, Lily discovers that she and Dorian may have more in common than first thought. Angourie, who wrote the novel

Antonia Eaton, Ed Oxenbould, Rob Mills will also star

 with her mother, will take the lead role alongside Brendon Tremblay, Yvonne Strahovski, Raff Law, Antonia Eaton, Oliver Edis, Ed Oxenbould, Brooke Satchwell, Julia Morris, Luke Carroll, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Hannah Gadsby, Erika Heynatz, Sophie Monk, Christian Wilkins and Rob Mills.