From Book to Movie

Okay . . . there are tons of rumors going around about books that are being made into movies and what not, or whether or not a movie people have seen were books before. So i did a little research . . . and here's what i came up with:

Books that have been made into movies and will be released this summer:

in MAY 2009:

• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (A/N: this is a terrible adaptation of the novel--do not see it)

in JUNE 2009:

• Cheri by Colette
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

in JULY 2009:

• Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

in AUGUST 2009:

• Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
• Taking Woodstock by Elliott Tiber
• the Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Where the Wild Things Are will also be in theatres soon too.

Past Movies that You Have Probably Heard About--or seen--and Just Happen to be Books Too:

• The Curious Case of Benjiman Button
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• He's Just Not That into You (yes, the rumors were true for this one. its a guide to understanding men. kinda funny)
• Inkheart
• Coraline
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Hotel for Dogs (i know, a bit surprising isnt it? i never knew this was a book)

Books whose film rights have been bought, are in pre-production, or are in the process of being fimed right now (in alphabetical order by title since most of these don't have release dates--if it has 'a' or 'the' before it, look for the first letter of the second word):

A

• Airborn (Kenneth Oppel)
• Airman (Eoin Colfer)
• Alchemyst, The (Michael Scott)
• Amulet of Samarkand, The (Jonathan Stroud)
• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Louise Rennison)
• An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)

B

• Beastly (Alex Flinn)
• Boggart, The (Susan Cooper)
• Book Thief, The (Marcus Zusak)
• Burning Time, The (Carol Matas)

C

• Certain Slant of Light, A (Laura Whitcomb)
• Chasing Vermeer (Blue Balliett)
• City of the Beasts (Isabel Allende)
• Cry of the Icemark, The (Stuart Hill)

D

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney)
• Dragonfire (Donita K. Paul)
• Dragonriders of Pern (Anne McCaffrey)

E

• Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer)
• Eddie Dickens and the Awful End (Phillip Ardagh)
• Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
• Everlost (Neal Shusterman)
• Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, The (Rick Yancey)

F

• Flipped (Wendelin Van Draanen)
• Fly Girl (Omar Tyree)

G

• Giver, The (Lois Lowry)
• Great and Terrible Beauty, A (Libba Bray)
• Great Gilly Hopkins, The (Katherine Paterson)
• Guardians of Ga'Hoole (Kathryn Lasky)

H

• Here Be Monsters (Alan Snow)
• Here, There Be Dragons (James A. Owen)
• Highest Tide, The (Jim Lynch)
• Hobbit, The (J.R.R. Tolkien)
• House of the Scorpion, The (Nancy Farmer)
• Hunger Games, The (Suzanne Collins)

I

• Inkspell (Cornelia Funke)
• Interworld (Neil Gaiman and Michael Reeves)
• If I Stay (Gayle Forman)

K

• Killing Sea, The (Richard Lewis)
• King Dork (Frank Portman)

L

• Larklight (Philip Reeve
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• Little Girl Lost (Charles de Lint)
• Looking Glass Wars, The (Frank Beddor)
• Looking for Alaska (John Green)
• Lost Years of Merlin, The (T.A. Barron)
• Lovely Bones, The (Alice Seabold)

M

• Magyk (Angie Sage)
• Marked (P.C. + Kristen Cast)
• Maximum Ride (James Patterson)
• Monster Blood Tattoo (D.M. Cornish)

N

• Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (Rachel Cohn and David Levithan)
• New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)

P

• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
• Peter and the Starcatchers (Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson)
• Peter Pan in Scarlet (Geraldine McCaughrean)

R

• Ramona and Beezus (Beverly Cleary)

S

• Sisters Grimm, The (Michael Buckley)
• Skellig (David Almond)
• Spook's Apprentice, The (Joseph Delaney)
• Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)
• Stoneheart (Charlie Fletcher)
• Subtle Knife, The (Phillip Pullman)

T

• Teen Idol (Meg Cabot)
• Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (Holly Black)
• Tomorrow, When the War Began (John Marsden)
• True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The (Avi)
• Tunnels (Roderick Gordon)

U

• Uglies (Scott Westerfeld)

V

• Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie (Holly Black)
• Varjak Paw (S.F. Said)

W

• Wee Free Men, The (Terry Prachet)
• When the Wind Blows (James Patterson)

these are all of the titles i know for sure have been bought/are being made into movies! if you know of any, please comment or email me with the title and author, and i'll be sure to update the list! oh, and T.V. And Book Addict--you were right. Uglies's film rights have been bought. hope this clears some stuff up:)