Literary adaptations: June 26, 2025

Here's a roundup of news on adaptations or remakes of literature.

• Daisy Edgar-Jones, of Normal People and Where the Crawdads Sing acting fame, will play Elinor Dashwood in a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (Book Riot). 

• Tommy & Tuppence, a six-part contemporary adaptation of Agatha Christie's novels about the investigative pair Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, is in the works from BritBox (The Hollywood Reporter).

• Read an excerpt of the January 2026 release Beth Is Dead by Katie Bernet; the YA thriller reimagines Little Women's tragic third sister as the victim of a murder (Entertainment Weekly).