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 fictional
rock 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.
with the cast led by Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Henry Golding. The family of nonconforming Anne Elliott (Dakota Johnson) is on the brink
of bankruptcy. After seven years of separation, Anne meets captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), with whom she once broke her engagement. 
Now our protagonists have a chance to reconcile. The film will also star Henry Golding who plays the Elliot family's relative and Anne's father's 
(Richard E. Grant) heir, Sir Walter. Check out the colourwashed trailer below and tell us what you think, are you ready for a woke Jane Austen?
with the cast led by Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Henry Golding. The family of nonconforming Anne Elliott (Dakota Johnson) is on the brink
of bankruptcy. After seven years of separation, Anne meets captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis), with whom she once broke her engagement. 
Now our protagonists have a chance to reconcile. The film will also star Henry Golding who plays the Elliot family's relative and Anne's father's 
(Richard E. Grant) heir, Sir Walter. Check out the colourwashed trailer below and tell us what you think, are you ready for a woke Jane Austen?
