Natalie Portman will star in an Elena Ferrante book adaptation

Posted on 04/15/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Another Elena Ferrante book is coming to the screen. Deadline reports that Oscar winner Natalie Portman will play the main...

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Tagged As: Literature in translation, Movie adaptation, Pop culture

Watch the 1991 Soviet movie adaptation of "Lord of the Rings"

Posted on 04/12/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A low-budget movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings made at the end of the Soviet Union has not...

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Fantasy, Movie adaptation, The New York Times

Author Larry McMurtry has died

Posted on 03/26/2021 at 11:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Award-winning author Larry McMurtry died Thursday night at age eighty-four. Among his nearly fifty books were the Pulitzer-Prize winning Lonesome...

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Tagged As: Movie adaptation, Obituary

"The Yellow Wallpaper" has been adapted into a full-length movie

Posted on 03/18/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Those of you who don’t mind your fiction mirroring reality, for better and for worse, may enjoy this classic-lit adaptation....

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Tagged As: Classic literature, Movie adaptation, Short story

The literary influences on this year's Oscar-nominated movies

Posted on 03/16/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We bookworms may bemoan how often the adaptation of our favorite stories “ruins” them, but sometimes the screen crews know...

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Toni Collette will adapt "Writers & Lovers" into a movie

Posted on 03/12/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Lily King’s bestselling novel Writers & Lovers is coming to the big screen, reports Variety. Actress Toni Collette will co-write...

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Tagged As: Movie adaptation

Bret Easton Ellis movies, from best to worst

Posted on 03/05/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We suspect few bookworms wish to mark an author’s birthday by watching film adaptations of said author’s books. That said,...

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Tagged As: Literary Hub, Movie adaptation

The movie version of "Cherry" underwhelms author Nico Walker

Posted on 02/25/2021 at 08:17 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Last night, during a virtual author event, we heard a writer praise the work filmmakers had done to adapt his...

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What kind of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" remake will we get?

Posted on 02/09/2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Good news: Paramount Pictures may not be remaking its adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Bad news: we...

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Tagged As: Lawsuit, Movie adaptation, TV adaptation

Filming to begin soon on movie version of "Catherine, Called Birdy"

Posted on 02/04/2021 at 08:16 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s Groundhog Day on the reader newswire today. Yesterday, we bemoaned the adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon; today,...

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Tagged As: Children's literature, Historical fiction, Movie adaptation