Books Behind Next Year's Films and Series
Every upcoming film and television adaptation of a novel, with the book behind each one — updated as release dates are announced.
Axis of Life
A pilgrimage in which a spiritual master must choose one of his disciples as his successor turns into an inner journey for each of the participants. Who am I? Where do I come from? What is left, when I am no longer here? A mystic tale about the path of the human soul through eternity.
All the Lovers in the Night
Freelance proofreader Fuyuko's carefully ordered life in solitude begins to transform after meeting Mitsutsuka, a quiet high school physics teacher.
The Child
The story of Mariaje and Nicasio, the mother and grandfather of one of the children who died in a gas explosion in a town in the Basque Country in October 1980. On a journey marked by unexpected emotions, Mariaje and Nicasio search for - and find - their own unique way to overcome their loss.
ROCK PAPER LANDMINE
Glico, Daruma-san ga Koronda... A game everyone knows—transformed into the ultimate battle of wits!?
Blossom in Darkness
Qi Fengyin, a feared demon lord blamed for all evil, encounters Ya Mao, a girl whose flesh is coveted for its extraordinary powers. Forced into a bond, the two clash yet gradually become each other's salvation. Together, they unravel six bizarre mysteries involving deadly curses, demons, resurrection, and forbidden love. As they expose a hidden conspiracy, they clear their names, free the world from its shackles, and give lovers a chance to stay together.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
1815. When her fiancé is wrongfully imprisoned and her rescue attempt ends in tragedy, Mercédès vows revenge against those who destroyed her life.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.
Guarding Stars
When a no-nonsense bodyguard is assigned to protect a charming action star over the holidays, sparks fly, secrets unravel, and Christmas gets a whole lot more complicated.
Inherit
Follows a wealthy family whose polished exterior begins to crack when an ancient centipede spirit infiltrates their bloodline.
Traveler's Hell
On an isolated road late at night, a young woman, driving alone, comes across a stranded male driver whose car has broken down on a mountain road notorious for disappearances and murders. Choosing empathy over a creeping sense of foreboding, she offers him a ride to the nearest station. That single choice unleashes a harrowing chain of strange and terrifying events in the dead of night, turning a simple gesture of kindness into a real-life nightmare.
River of No Return
In the Ming Dynasty, Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji races 2,200 miles from Nanjing to Beijing in 15 days to save himself and the empire.
Dig
Follow four women who work at an archeological dig in Greece. When the team uncovers a long-buried secret with the potential to rewrite history, they find themselves at the center of a high-stakes international conspiracy.
Way of the Warrior Kid
Jake is an injured Navy SEAL who becomes a mentor for his shy, struggling nephew Marc. Using the principles of his military training, Jake teaches Marc how to be a Warrior Kid as he enters high school.
Blade Runner 2099
Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city.
SHIN JI: Double Shuffle
Rui-chen, heir to a powerful family, becomes ruthless amid deadly power struggles. His only weakness is his love for his seventh uncle, Wei-xia. Their bond ends in tragedy when Rui-chen dies saving Wei-xia, who is later murdered seeking revenge. Fate sends Wei-xia back to his youth with memories of their past life. Determined to change their destiny, he protects Rui-chen, only to find him colder than before. When an accident restores Rui-chen's memories, they must confront old wounds and decide whether love can overcome fate
The Hunchback: Soul of Paris
As cholera threatens to ravage the city of Paris in 1830, a hunchback hunted for medical experiments is caught between political turmoil and impossible love.
Story Starts from Bed
After a chance encounter during a wild night, two people entrenched in hookup culture fall into an unexpected romance. As they try to make their impulsive connection last, temptation and emotional baggage threaten to pull them apart.
3726 MDPL
For four years, Rangga only dared to greet Andini through a phone screen. Mount Rinjani and its 3,726-meter peak become witnesses to his courage as he finally confesses the sincerity of his feelings. Andini welcomes his love, but behind her smile, doubt lingers. Bintang, the ex-boyfriend who once caused her deepest heartbreak, returns with regret, a changed attitude, and a declaration of love that is just as sincere. Along a climbing trail that tests both body and mind, Andini faces the biggest question of her life: move forward with someone new, or turn back to resolve the unfinished memories of the past?
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet is an unmarried woman and the second of five daughters of Mr and Mrs Bennet from Hertfordshire, near London. The Bennet home can only be inherited by males in the family, so the pressure is on for the daughters to marry well or risk losing everything. While out in society, Elizabeth interacts with single men like Mr Darcy, an outwardly, misunderstood curmudgeon.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: The Getaway
With the stress of the holidays fast approaching, the Heffley family—to Greg's dismay—makes a last-minute decision to escape to an all-inclusive island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. As hilarious hijinks ensue, the Heffleys soon discover that paradise may not be everything it's cracked up to be.
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
Childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re thirty, and the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
A rich patriarch's delicate family falls apart when his youngest of four wives cannot have a child.
The December Breeze
This is a love story: the love between friends. Four women from Colombian high society defy norms and discover that to desire is to shape their destiny.
Clarissa
Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa prepares to host a high society party at her home, as her complicated past begins to consume her, in the form of now-distant friends and loves from her youth. Simultaneously, Septimus, a young soldier, is haunted by his own memories of the horrors he has witnessed and endured. As the perspectives traverse past and present, across the bourgeois class and those too easily forgotten by society, a delicate portrait of contemporary Nigeria emerges.
Dune: Part Three
Nearly two decades after he seized control of the Imperium, Paul Atreides is now a ruthless Emperor, and must face the consequences of his reign as old allies return, terrifying new threats emerge, and betrayal lurks in every shadow. Haunted by visions of Imperial collapse and the reappearance of his long-lost love, Paul is drawn into a sweeping conspiracy, with Chani at the heart of its unfolding mystery. As enemies close in, Paul must confront the true cost of power and the fate of those he loves the most.
Jumanji: Open World
Our heroes have escaped the ever-changing jungles of Jumanji before, but this time the game comes to us—as Jumanji breaks free of its console, unleashing its chaos into our world.
Philosophy of the Porch
A dedicated young woman serving as her family's primary financial provider finds her matrimonial aspirations permanently derailed when she uncovers a debilitating secret: their ancestral home was pawned by her late father to finance her eldest brother's opulent wedding.
Autokraten
In a luxurious penthouse, Diana and Stefan welcome strangers into a treacherous game of seduction, manipulation, and power. When Pan enters their world, he becomes the subject of an experiment in which charm becomes a weapon and closeness becomes a means of control. But with Olga’s arrival, a player emerges who understands the rules faster than her hosts. The balance of power shifts and control turns into a struggle for survival.
Harry Potter
There is nothing special about Harry Potter - at least that's what his Aunt Petunia always says. On his 11th birthday, a letter of admittance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry opens up a hidden world for Harry: one of fun, friendship and magic. But with this new adventure comes great risk as Harry is forced to face a dangerous enemy from his past.
Bosch: Start of Watch
Follow 26-year-old Harry Bosch during his earliest days as a rookie cop in 1991 Los Angeles, a city on the edge, teeming with racial tension, gang violence, and a fractured LAPD. Amid routine calls and growing unrest, Bosch finds himself drawn into a high-profile heist and a web of criminal corruption that will test his loyalty to the badge and shape his future as the detective who lives by the code, "Everybody counts or nobody counts."
Children of Blood and Bone
In the world of Orïsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people. She and her brother ally with the daughter and son of the king to fight back against his brutal rule.
The Third Parent
A neighborhood Fourth of July celebration is interrupted by a ferociously bizarre anomaly who overpowers a family in order to teach them how to become better people and more compliant citizens.
Hotel «At the Dead Mountaineer»
Police inspector Peter Glebski arrives at a small mountain hotel, "At the Dead Mountaineer's", after receiving an anonymous letter - the letter warns that a murder will be committed in the hotel. An avalanche that occurs in the evening blocks the only exit from the gorge, and at night Glebski discovers the body of one of the guests...
Remain
When reclusive architect Tate Gordon moves to small coastal town to complete his latest project, he encounters an alluring young woman who pulls him out of his shell, and into the center of a deadly mystery that hangs over the town.
The Wandering Earth III
The sun is about to be destroyed, and humans have built huge thrusters on the surface of the earth to find a new home. However, the road to the universe is full of dangers. In order to save the earth, young people from the wandering earth era stepped forward for the third time and started a life-and-death battle against time.
Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
Two children discover a wood full of pools leading to other worlds. One takes them to a dead city beneath a dying sun, where they wake a queen who exterminated its population and accidentally bring her back to London.
Fantomas: The New World
Paris, 1914: Fantomas, a master of deception and chaos, is being chased by Lieutenant Juve as he investigates a series of violent crimes that have put the city on edge. In an era of violence and political tensions, Lieutenant Juve finds himself hunting for a man with no motive, no agenda, no pattern or identity.
The Age of Innocence
A fresh take on Edith Wharton's classic novel of forbidden love in 19th century New York, The Age Of Innocence is a will-they/won't-they love triangle exploring themes of freedom, duty, identity and love in all its forms.
The Exorcist: Martyrs
Thirteen years ago, New York City detective Julie Miller ended the terror reign of satanic serial killer Father Sunday. The case made her a hero, and she has thrown herself into her work ever since. Now a new killer scrawls her name in an altar boy's blood on the walls of a church crypt, dragging her back into the darkness she believed she had buried with him.
The Nightingale
The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.
The Last Day
Over a single summer day in New York, the lives of two mothers briefly entwine. Julia, a writer and mother, is unsettled by creative stagnation, unprocessed grief, and the approach of her daughter’s adolescence. An unexpected encounter with Taylor—a labor and delivery nurse in the midst of a postpartum crisis—pushes Julia to reconsider the life she has built, and whether she can rediscover herself within it.
The Hole
Bedridden after a tragic accident, a professor is cared for by his mother-in-law, who uncovers disturbing secrets about his marriage and past, jeopardizing his recovery.
Fake Skating
Childhood best friends Dani and Alec reunite in Minnesota. After a compromising situation, they start a fake-dating, slow burn relationship to boost their reputations and navigate high school drama.
High in the Clouds
After he accidentally sparked a revolution against Gretsch, the bossy diva-owl who has banned all music from his town, a teenage squirrel named Wirral embarks on an extraordinary journey to set music free.
Windstärke 17
After her alcoholic mother’s suicide, Ida - traumatized and plagued by guilt - flees her hometown and ends up on the island of Rügen. There, she begins an intense healing process marked by a fresh start, an unexpected friendship, and her first great love.
Wochenendrebellen 2
When Mirco and Fatime realize that their 15-year-old autistic son, Jason, is experiencing puberty from a perspective all his own, Mirco sees an opportunity in a new promise: Together, father and son embark on an extraordinary journey through Germany’s soccer clubs to raise funds for the construction of a well in Kenya and, in the process, test Jason’s independence.
Seasons
A husband and wife buy their dream ranch, only to discover the land is alive with ancient spirits, and that survival means submitting to increasingly disturbing rituals with each turn of the season.
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
Set between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies, Strider and Gandalf search for the corrupted Hobbit Gollum to learn more information about Bilbo Baggins' ring.
The Housemaid's Secret
Millie Calloway takes a job keeping house for a woman she's never allowed to see — only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.
Alone at Dawn
Following the true story of U.S. Air Force Combat Controller John Chapman and his fight to the death to save his fellow soldiers during the 2002 Battle of Takur Ghar in Afghanistan. Years later, an intelligence officer works to prove his valor, leading an investigation that would ultimately secure Chapman the Medal of Honor.
Lizard Music
When a boy left to his own devices stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, a hidden door to the extraordinary swings open. His search for answers leads him to the eccentric and whimsical Chicken Man and his beloved companion, a seventy-year-old chicken named Claudia—two kindred spirits who have also glimpsed the impossible. United by this shared vision, they set off on an adventure that begins as a hunt for a hidden society but blossoms into something far greater: a voyage through invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies, and the unbreakable bond between lost souls who discover magic not only in what they find, but in each other.
Viva la Madness
A high-profile British drug dealer hides out in the Carribean waiting for the heat to die down from his last job and plotting his imminent return to London.
Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest
Follows the original conqueror Aegon I Targaryen, taking place roughly 300 years before the events of the Game of Thrones series. Plot TBA.