45 Upcoming Book-to-Screen Adaptations for 2026 and Beyond
From Netflix, HBO and Prime Video to cinemas worldwide, discover where to watch all 45 upcoming adaptations and read every original novel
This is your ultimate list, a full guide to every single novel (if I missed one, do tell me) that’s being adapted for the screen.
I’ve categorised them per month, and then into late 2026, early 2027, and then a whole list of adaption that don’t have an official release date, yet.
I was considering including another list of rumoured adaptations or those that were in early development but it would make more sense to add those once they are confirmed. This will be a continuously updated list, so do save it to your favourites.
I wanted to make sure that this wasn’t only a guide for new films and shows to keep an eye out for, but also a place to come if you’re looking for your next good read. Almost all these novels have been greatly discussed in the culture and you would have most likely heard about them.
Knowing that a novel is being adapted and has a release date within the next year is a great incentive to actually buy the book and read it. I love giving people a reason to pick up and read a novel so please do think of this as list you can come back to for inspiration if you’re stuck on what to read next. I even added a link to where you can buy each book.
The genres are varied - rom-coms, thrillers, action, commercial, literary, sport dramas - there’s something for everyone here to read and watch.
Do let me know how many of these you read, are planning to read, or maybe will never read! I always love reading your comments and DMs.
Enjoy
August 2026
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Season Two
If you’ve seen the first season, you’ll know it’s beautifully shot.
The second and last season of Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude based on the seminal novel by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Marquez will be releasing on two dates. The first seven episodes will be available on 5 August while the two-hour grand finale will premiere on 26 August.
The novel, hailed a masterpiece since its publication in 1967, is a multi-generation saga set in Latin America. The story follows the Buendía family, whose patriarch, founded the fictitious town of Macondo, which is eventually consumed by war, the rise and fall of modernity, and a long-foretold curse.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: 5 August, 26 August
Buy the book here
My Life with the Walter Boys: Season 3
The love triangle between Jackie Howard and Alex and Cole Walter continues into a third season but potentially with another love interest for Jackie? Who is in for season two?
Based on the popular young adult romance novel by Ali Novak, the story follows Jackie an orphaned high school student from New York who moves in with her mother’s old friend Katherine Walter to a ranch in Colorado, a family of seven sons and one daughter.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: 6 August
Buy the book here
Reacher: Season 4
One of the best action series out there.
Based on Gone Tomorrow, the 13th book in Lee Child’s global best-selling series, season four is set to be another action-packed series stars Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher.
The former major in the United States Army Military, now a drifter who often finds himself caught up in dangerous situations, is drawn into a deadly game placing against ruthless and very powerful enemies.
Available on: Amazon Prime
Release date: 12 August
Buy the book here
The Magic Faraway Tree
If you haven’t read this to your children do it now.
Enid Blyton’s endearing book series is about a gigantic magical tree in an enchanted wood that is discovered by three children. The film adaptation, starring Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, and Nicola Coughlan, takes the premise of the books but focuses on a modern family relocating to the countryside. The children, who then discover the Faraway Tree, are transported to a magical land and the family set off on adventure that will bring them closer than ever.
Available in theatres
Release date: 19 August (UAE), 21 August (USA)
Buy the book here
The Dog Stars
The Ridley Scott directed film starring Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, and Margaret Qualley is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a virus has wiped out most of humanity.
Hig, a pilot, who survived the virus but lost his wife, and Bangley, a hardened former Marine along with a group of survivors face roaming scavengers called Reapers as they search for a better life beyond where they currently live. The film is based on the popular 2012 novel by Peter Heller that follows the same premise.
Available in theatres
Release date: 26 August
Buy the book here
The Whisper Man
This is going to be good, I’m telling you.
When a widowed crime writer’s 8-year-old son is abducted, he turns to his estranged father, a retired police detective, for help. The story takes an even darker turn when he discovers a connection between his son’s kidnap and The Whisper Man a convicted serial killer.
The crime thriller stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott, and Michael Keaton and is based on the novel by Alex North.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: 28 August
Buy the book here
September 2026
Practical Magic
Make sure to watch the first film to get yourself ready.
A sequel to the 1998 cult classic, the film will once again star Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as the Owen sisters. The sequel is based on the 2021 novel The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman, who also wrote the 1995 novel Practical Magic of which the first film is based on.
Set twenty-five years after the events of the first film, the story now follows the Owens family as they face new challenges when they discover a secret regarding their family’s history and the origins of their magic. The first film is available to stream or rent on various platforms.
Available in theatres
Release date: 11 September
Buy book one here and book two here
The Doll
Even I must admit, as staunch period drama lover, have never seen or a read one set in Poland. It feels like exciting new territory.
Set against the backdrop of 19th century Warsaw, the period drama followed the story of a self-made merchant tormented by his desire for a strong-willed aristocrat. Starring polish actors Sandra Drzymalska and Tomasz Schuchardt, the story is based on the classic Polish novel by Bolesław Prus.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: 16 September
Buy the book here
My Sad Dead
The Spanish series of four short stories by Mariana Enríquez first published in The New Yorker as translated by Megan McDowell has been adapted into a multipart mini-series.
The series follows Ema, a 60-year-old doctor who has the ability to see and hear the dead and has spent her life avoiding this gift. But her life takes a turn when her young niece Julie visits, with a more intense approach to the same supernatural gift. The psychological and supernatural horror drama will deal with themes of death, desire, and family.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: 24 September
Read the short story here
Sense and Sensibility
This is too much to bear!
The new adaptation the Jane Austen classic will star Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, George MacKay, and Fiona Shaw. The beloved, charming, and witty, story follows the Dashwood sisters, practical Elinor and the romantic Marianne as they navigate sisterhood and love aft an abrupt change to their lives after the death of their father.
The 1995 adaptation of the film directed by Ang Lee and starring Emma Thompson (who also wrote the script) and Kate Winslet is a fan favourite to which many see this film will be contending with.
Available in theatres
Release date: 25 September (UK), 16 October (US)
Buy the book here
October 2026
Verity
Often referred to as one of the better Colleen Hoover novels (according to at least a dozen comments I’ve read in various bookish comment sections) here’s hoping Verity gets none of the dark energy that was attached to It Ends With Us.
The psychological romantic thriller follows the story of ghostwriter Lowen Ashleigh who is hired by Jeremy Crawford to complete a series of bestselling by his author wife Verity, who is unable to finish after an accident. While residing at the Crawford home, Lowen discovers an unfinished manuscript which reveals unsettling details about Verity’s past.
The film stars Anne Hathaway (love seeing her consistently on our screens) Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett (happy to see him back on our screens!)
Available in theatres
Release date: 2 October
Buy the book here
Whalefall
This sounds terrifying, not in a thriller way, but in a claustrophobic way.
The survival thriller film us directed and produced by Brian Duffield and is based on the 2023 novel by Daniel Kraus, who also co-wrote the script with Duffield. The story follows a scuba diver Jay Gardiner a teenager living who is struggling over the recent death of his father, a well-known figure in the local scuba diving community.
While searching for his father’s remains, he is then swallowed alive by a whale and attempts to escape. It’s all very biblical. Inside the whale, Jay is forced to come to terms with his relationship with his father in order to find closure and be free.
Available in theatres
Release date: 16 October
Buy the book here
Klara and the Sun
A robot girl designed to prevent loneliness tries to save a heartbroken family of humans? Based on the novel by the brilliant Kazu Ishiguro? I’m so in.
Starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Mia Tharia, directed by Taika Waititi who wrote the screen play along with Dahvi Waller (please, I hope they did a good job!), the dystopian science fiction film couldn’t come at a better time as we are faced with a many ethical and moral challenges as we find ourselves amidst of AI everything.
Aside from that, anything based on the writing of Ishiguro is always a must watch.
Available in theatres
Release date: 23 October
Buy the book here
Late 2026
Lupin
After ending with a massive cliff hanger in Part 3, Lupin Part 4 couldn’t come any sooner. Starring Omar Sy as Assane Diop, the plot of the series is still under wraps but will include eight episodes.
The French language series which has consistently performed highly on Netflix is based on the gentleman thief from the stories by Maurice Leblanc released in 1907.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: 23 October
Buy the book here
Sunrise on the Reaping
After recently re-watching The Hunger Games franchise (I never realised how entertaining they are) this is a very choice for an prequel novel and adaptation.
Haymitch Abernathy, who was so brilliantly played in the film by Woody Harrelson, get his own story when we revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games. The story starts on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell, of which we know that Haymitch has a historical win.
The film has a stellar cast including Ralph Fiennes as President Snow (the man has a thing for villains it seems), Elle Fanning as a young Effie Trinket, Glenn Close, Maya Hawke, Kieran Culkin, and more. Nice to see that Suzanne Collins is on the writing team too!
Available in theatres
Release date: 19 November
Buy the book here
Dune: Part Three
Is there a more anticipated film this year? Seriously. Yes, even more so than The Odyssey please.
The final instalment of Dune, directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brian K. Vaughan (love him, hello, Pride of Baghdad? Saga?!) is based on the 1969 novel Dune Messiah the second instalment from the book series by the incredible Frank Herbert.
There is a lot riding on this film. Yes, Paul Atreides has to seize control of the universe, navigating through political adversaries and religious fanatics, but also Timothey Chalamet needs a serious win.
Despite having a good year (various nominations and wins for Marty Supreme) the public aren’t big fans of him after “pursuit of greatness” speech last year and ballet gate this year. So, I’m hoping that he’ll be a bit more thoughtful in the press tour for Dune: Part Three and that the public are more merciful.
In saying that, I do truly believe that Dune is much bigger than Chalamet.
Available in theatres
Release date: 16 December
Buy the Dune Messiah here buy Dune here buy the three book set here and the six book set here
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
What an incredible Christmas present.
The first season of the new Harry Potter series based on the first book, will consists of eight episodes.
The story by J.K. Rowling, in case you have no idea, follows orphan Harry Potter discover he’s a wizard and attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he meets Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. As they learn magic they also forge strong bonds of friendship and face the growing danger posed by Lord Voldemort’s return.
The cast looks amazing but I’m most excited to see John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore. I’ve also recently been listening to the new full cast edition of the novel on Audible and it’s very good.
Available on: HBO
Release date: 25 December
Buy the book here, buy the full book set here
A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
Is there anything more wholesome than a Christmas film about a dog?
The family holiday film is based on the best-selling series by Bruce Cameron whose previous books were also adapted into the films A Dog’s Purpose in 2017 and A Dog’s Journey in 2019.
The story is told from the perspective of Winstead a sage basset who has been watching the Goss family for years. When Mrs. Goss is placed in an induced coma during the holidays, the family are tested beyond their limits. However, hope is on the horizon when a new Corgi pup arrives at their doorstep.
The film has an impressive cast including Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, Jennifer Tilly, and Mary Steenburgen.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Holiday season 2026
Buy the book here
East of Eden
This is the classic everyone is reading this year. It might have something to do with Hudson Williams, star of Heated Rivalry, mentioning in a recent interview that East of Eden is his current read. Suddenly, BookTok is a blaze with recaps, reviews, and analysis of John Steinbeck’s 1952 family saga.
Considered a masterpiece of American fiction, the story follows the lives of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven lives. The novel explores themes such as guilt and freedom with running references and parallels to the biblical Book of Genesis, reenacting the story Cain and Abel.
The series stars Florence Pugh, Martha Plimpton, and Ciarán Hinds.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Fall 2026
Buy the book here
Guarding Stars
A holiday romantic comedy starring Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki?Absolutely! Both of them are way too talented and haven’t been on our screens enough.
Based on the novel The Bodyguard (the name change makes perfect sense to me) Katherine Center, there’s a no-nonsense bodyguard assigned to protect a film star. Here’s the thing though, the bodyguard is Hannah Brooks, the actor is action superstar Jack Stapleton.
It’s like a gender swap of Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston’s The Bodyguard but with more cozy Christmas vibes.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Fall 2026
Buy the book here
In a Holidaze
You’re in your 20s, and you make a massive romantic mistake (it happens) but now you’re trapped in a time-loop where you have to relive the same Christmas at your family’s cabin in snowy Utah until you discover true happiness.
The film starring Maddie Ziegler, Rob Lowe, Graham Phillips, and Elias Kacavas is based on the 2020 novel by Christina Lauren (who by the way is the pen name for writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings).
It’s giving Groundhog Day (brilliant rom-com) but on Christmas steroids.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Late 2026
Buy the book here
The Mosquito Bowl
Buzz Bissinger novel, The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II is based on a real football game that took place during World War II in Guadalcanal.
The action-drama sports film sounds intense. Four top American football players decide to enlist in the United States Marine Corps after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. While preparing for the battle of Okinawa, they play one last football game, before their lives ultimately change for ever.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Late 2026
Buy the book here
Pride and Prejudice
This is going to be a big deal. Huge.
First of all, how lucky are we to get two Austen adaptations in one year?
This one of the classic Austen novel (the best in my opinion) has been adapted by Dolly Alderton and directed by Euros Lyn. The cast is pretty stellar.
Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet, Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet, and Fiona Shaw as Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
The trailer which was released in February this year left a lot of Austen fans unimpressed, but had me intrigued, in fact, excited by this new adaptation, which seems an attempt to combine all that we love about Pride and Prejudice but trying something slightly off the cuff. Here for it.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Late 2026
Buy the book here
The Trap
This is the kind of thriller I live for.
The novel by Melanie Raabe takes the reader on a complex trail of lies, deception, power, and protagonist who will do anything to avenge her sister.
It’s been ten years since the renowned and reclusive author Lisa Konrad has left her house, ever since she witnessed the murder of her sister Anna. But when she recognises the killer on television, she makes out a plan to trap him, a plan that places here at the centre as bait and the target.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Late 2026
Buy the book here
Unaccustomed Earth
The short story collection by Jhumpa Lahiri’s has been adapted into a drama series starring Freida Pinto. Love her by the way and was so delighted to see that she voiced Avatar Sonam in the animated film Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender.
The story focuses Parul Chaudhury a devoted wife who lives in an affluent Indian American community in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her routine life is turned upside down when Parul finds herself in the midst scandalous affair when her a long-lost love remerges from her past causing major rift in the elite community she comes from.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: Late 2026
Buy the book here
2027
Children of Blood and Bone
So there’s been a lot of drama here which I won’t het into here, however with a lot of drama comes a lot of anticipation.
The New York Times best selling novel by Tomi Adeyemi, is a thrilling read. Plot driven, action packed, but with complex interesting characters, and a lot of magic, the story follows Zélie Adebola a young girl in attempting to restore magic to the kingdom of Orïsha, following the ruling class’ brutal suppression of the class of magic practitioners she belongs to.
Based on west African mythology and Yoruba culture, this was one of the first novels that brought black fantasy into the mainstream. So you can imagine the expectation and anticipation that’s being placed on the adaption. The cast is excellent and includes Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Viola Davis, and Regina King.
The trailer was released a week ago and I had some thoughts:
Available in theatres
Release date: 15 January 2027
Buy the book here
Remain
Funnily enough I was just telling a friend the other day that it’s been a while since we’ve has an M. Night Shyamalan film. I’m especially curious when he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, that it is the “highest-testing movie of my career.”
The supernatural romantic thriller film is based on an idea Shyamalan developed with author Nicholas Sparks, who then separately wrote a version of the story as a novel published last year.
The story is about New York architect Tate Donovan who recently left a psychiatric facility after grieving his sister’s death. After taking on a job designing a summer home for his best friend, he meets Wren, a woman who makes him question his beliefs about life and loss.
The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor - an interesting pairing, and she in particular needs to be in more films.
Available in theatres
Release date: 5 February 2027
Buy the book here
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
This, now this, I’m excited about.
Initially, I wasn’t sure how Greta Gerwig was a good fit for C.S. Lewis’ prequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. One of the staples of Lewis’ story telling is how he plays with the uncertain, the things in between, in leaving a lot of things unsaid, while Gerwig’s writing and directing is not particularly subtle.
But then it was reported on NarniaWeb that Gerwig appointed Academy Award-winning creature effects artist Neal Scanlan to oversee the film’s creature effects. Scanlan is known for his work with puppeteers and creature performers.
There have also been reports of animal handlers and animals on the set. This gives me hope that Gerwig will focus more on craft as opposed to CGI for the visuals of the film, an approach that is crucial for the tone of The Magician’s Nephew.
The story was written by Lewis in 1955 and is actually the sixth published novel from the Narnia series, despite it being the first in the timeline of events.
It follows two children Digory and Polly who find themselves in a dangerous adventure through the use of magic rings that sends them to the Wood between the Worlds where they meet an evil sorceress.
Available in theatres 12 February 2027
Available on Netflix 2 April 2027
Buy The Magician’s Nephew here, but the full Narnia set here
The Nightingale
I don’t know one person who hasn’t cried reading the novel by Kristin Hannah. The highly anticipated film has a lot to live up to but given what we know, I think it will do well.
It’s a story of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle each embarking on their own path of love, survival and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France. The film will star sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning, a genius casting choice.
Available in theatres
Release date: 19 March 2027
But the book here
Fake Skating
Set to be directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) Fake Skating is an emotional high school hockey romance with, but of course, the glorious fake relationship trope.
Academically gifted Dani Collins has moved to her mother’s hometown and reunites with her childhood sweetheart Alec Barczewski. When a photo of Alex, star of the hockey team, with a bong appears on social media, he’s determined to restore his reputation with sport scouts.
He and Dani decide to fake a relationship so Alec can impress the scouts by having an academically gifted girlfriend while Dani can get a team manager position that will help her application to Harvard.
Things start to get complicated, as they ultimately do when, their fake relationship starts to feel very real.
Available in theatres
Release date: 16 July 2027
But the book here
Released Date to be Announced
The God of the Woods
Barbara Van Laar, a 13-year-old girl is missing – and she’s not the only one.
A multigenerational story filled with class tension and dark, well-kept secrets based on the bestselling 2024 novel by The God of the Woods, will be a series starring Maya Hawk as Judy Luptack the smart and determined investigator.
Judy has a lot to prove as the first female investigator in the male-dominated Bureau of Criminal Investigation assigned to navigate the uber elite world of wealth, influence and power.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
This Summer Will Be Different
Who doesn’t love a summer romance? Especially a forbidden one.
The 10-episode series follows Lucy Ashby, a young woman navigating her 20s across several summers on Canada’s Prince Edward Island and her first real love with her best friend’s brother – the one guy she was supposed to fall for.
Based on the bestselling novel by Carley Fortune who has had several popular contemporary romance novels set in idyllic setting and seasons.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
How to Kill Your Family
I will never say no to watching anything with Anya Taylor-Joy. An absolute talent.
And she seems absolutely perfect for this.
Bella Mackie’s incredibly entertaining and dark 2021 novel is turning into an eight-episode series following Grace the forgotten child of Simon Artemis, a cold-hearted billionaire who rejects her after her mother’s death. So obviously she must exact revenge, but her deadly plan may pulls her away from what she really needs.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
The Secret of Secrets
This is incredible news. Not only because the Robert Langdon books series by Dan Brown is genuinely brilliant, but because the casting choices are so good.
Side note, I was disappointed by Tom Hanks comments in the New York Times in 2022 about the novels and the Ron Howard directed films of which he starred in three of them made close to $1.5 billion worldwide at the box office.
On the films: “God, that was a commercial enterprise. Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. The Da Vinci Code was hooey.”
“There’s nothing wrong with good commerce, provided it is good commerce. By the time we made the third, we proved that it wasn’t such good commerce.”
On the books: “Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage.”
“But they’re as cynical as a crossword puzzle,” Hanks continued. “All we were doing is promising a diversion.”
Rather surprising that he doesn’t seem to understand how fiction works, since he himself has dabbled in writing fiction.
All that to say, while I am a Tom Hanks fan, I’m glad to see the baton is moving swiftly on. Enter Morgan Spector (we know him as George Russell from The Gilded Age) who is set play the character Robert Langdon.
Spector’s wife, actress Rebecca Hall has been cast as the female lead, Katherine Solomon. Love a real-life husband and wife team playing love interest on screen for the eight episode series.
Brown’s latest instalment of the Langdon series follows symbologist as he races to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript that will change humanity’s understanding of the mind.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here, buy the books box-set here
Icebreaker
The massive BookTok sensation, New York Times best selling hockey romance novel by Hannah Grace, the first in the three-book Maple Hill series, is being adapted into a series.
The college romance series follows competitive figure skater Anastasia Allen who is training for the Olympics. But not everything goes to plan when Anastasia is forced to share the rink with Nate Hawkins, a hockey player who is just as ambitious as her.
It has to be said – yes, we are dealing with ice cold temperatures but the heat between Anastasia and Nate will be steamy.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
Fourth Wing
This is big for the romantasy world. I believe it’s the first massive romantasy novel, which really dominated the culture, that is being adapted into a live-action TV series.
Based on the The Empyrean romantasy book series from Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing is set in Basgiath War College where twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail, who was planning to live a simple life, finds herself among hundreds of candidates striving to become dragon riders.
There’s not much we know except that Meredith Averill (we know her from Locke & Key and The Haunting of Hill House) will write, executive produce, and run the show.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video
Release date: TBA
Buy Fourth Wing here, buy Iron Flame here, buy Onyx Storm here
Here One Moment
At this rate Nicole Kidman is the queen of adaptations.
Kidman will star in the mystery thriller based on the novel by Liane Moriarty about a woman on a delayed domestic flight from Hobart to Sydney, Australia who walks down the aisle and tells unsuspecting passengers the exact cause and age of their deaths. Things get creepier when a few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted.
Available on: Twitch
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
The Husbands
Holly Gramazio bestselling novel is turning into a mini-series and it sounds equally hilarious as it Kafka-esque.
Lauren returns to her London flat to find a man claiming to be her husband, a man she has never met before. Things get weirder when he goes to change a bulb in the attic and vanishes only to be replaced by another husband.
Her eery attic continues to create endless husbands, forcing her to question reality and her life choices.
Available on: Apple +
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s insanely popular historical drama is critical success and commercial bestseller that has left fans desperate to see the story on the screen.
The story follows a young journalist’s interview with Evelyn Hugo, a fictional aging Hollywood starlet, who goes into the details of her seven marriages along with tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and shocking truths about her life and of the people she knew.
While there has been speculation on who will place Evelyn nothing has been announced except for the director, Anna Kendrick. I, like many, was surprised by this choice, as Kendrick is primarily known as an actress. No opinion yet, but that’s a lot of pressure I would assume for Kendrick.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
Funny Story
Emily Henry is a big deal in the rom-com space and now, for the first time, she’ll be adapting one of her novels.
Daphne is a children’s librarian who is dealing with the aftermath of her broken engagement to Peter, who realized that he was in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Now she’s stuck in her ex’s lakeside hometown and is forced to become roommates with Petra’s ex, Miles. You see where this is going? Despite their very obvious differences, they make a plan to get back at their exes.
It’s very much giving the real life couple swap that happened with Shania Twain.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
Happy Place
Yes, another Henry novel is also being adapted into a film but this time, Netflix has optioned the bestseller for Jennifer Lopez’s production company, Nuyorican Productions. We usually do love a Lopez rom-com (just don’t ask me about Office Romance).
The story follows Harriet and Wyn are the perfect engaged couple. They’ve been together since college and have always been madly in love.
But they broke up five months ago and haven’t told their friends yet. They decide to keep their break up a secret to spend what might be their last annual friend group getaway in a cozy cottage. Not wanting to upset the group, Harriet and Wyn have to pretend they are still in love… how hard can it be?
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
Better Than the Movies
Another Lynn Painter novel set to be adapted, with another Fake relationship trope!
The hugely popular YA rom-com follows high school senior Liz Buxbaum whose is obsessed with romantic comedies (very relatable). And now she’s determined to turn her romantic fantasies into reality, when Michael her long-term crush moves back to her hometown.
So, obviously, the only way she can go to prom with him is if convinces Wes Bennet, her next door neighbour and guy she hates to pretend to like to get Michael’s attention.
But wait, does she actually hate Wes? What’s going on? Fake relationship trope is one of my favourites
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
The Midnight Library
Florence Pugh will star and produce Matt Haig’s bestselling novel which has sold 15 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 56 languages
The story follows Nora Seed who finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.
Available in theatres
Release date: TBC
But the book here
You Are Here
When a mutual friend brings them together, Marnie and Michael find themselves setting off on an epic walk and start a relationship that while neither was looking for might be just what they both need.
Based on the novel by the bestselling novel by David Nicholls who is also writing the eight-part adaptation, the series will star Matthew Macfadyen (aka Mr Darcy) and Claire Foy (aka The Queen).
Available on: BBC
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen novel Crossroads is currently in development at Netflix with Jeremy Strong set to star.
Franzen’s novel is a family saga set in the 1970s that follows a Midwestern pastor and his family as their lives unravel after a church scandal sends each of them chasing freedom and desire.
Available on: Netflix
Release date: TBA
Buy the book here