Literary adaptations: July 1, 2026

Here's a roundup of news and reflections on literary adaptations and crossovers.

The Hollywood Reporter

• Study: Dating shows are out, romance novel adaptations are in

• Author Meg Cabot on her new Princess Diaries graphic novel and the Princess Diaries 3 movie script

Deadline

• Netflix sets a premiere date for Willy Wonka reality series 

• Controversial children's book The Rainbow Fish is becoming an animated movie

• Author Colleen Hoover is producing the film version of Ali Hazelwood’s Love, Theoretically

• BBC casts Edward Bluemel as Agatha Christie's Poirot in the upcoming show Hercule

• ABC is developing Isabella Maldonado's novel A Forgotten Kill for TV

Variety

• The book series The Last Kids on Earth has received a TV pilot order

• The TV show Every Year After, based on novels by Carley Fortune, is getting a second season

People

• Actor Alfred Molina will narrate Louise Penny's Miss Wolcott's Ghost 

• Carley Fortune updates us on the Meghan Markle/Prince Harry adaptation of her novel Meet Me at the Lake

• NBA star Jalen Brunson is publishing a children's book, Jalen Plays It All

And elsewhere

• Here’s a first look at Daisy Edgar-Jones and the cast of Sense and Sensibility (Vogue) 

• Watch the trailer for the Sense and Sensibility adaptation (YouTube)

• Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has its theatrical and streaming premieres set (Collider)