Literary-inspired entertainment: January 31, 2025

Of course books are our favorite form of entertainment, but here are other types that have been inspired by literature.

• Writer Nicholas Sparks and director M. Night Shyamalan are teaming up on a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal; Sparks is writing a romance novel while, separately, Shyamalan is writing a screenplay based on it (Variety).

• The trailer has dropped for the Netflix movie adaptation of Forever by Judy Blume (YouTube).

• Tackle this crossword built solely on literary or literature-inspired clues (Electric Literature).