Books have always been a rich source of inspiration for filmmakers and 2019 is no different. From a YA science-fiction spectacular to a Pulitzer Prize winner, these are the most anticipated book-to-film adaptations of the year.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2009, The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness went on to spawn a successful trilogy called Chaos Walking. The book’s fans have eagerly anticipated a film adaptation ever since Lionsgate (the studio behind The Hunger Games) bought the rights back in 2011.
Set in a world where everyone can hear each other’s thoughts in an overwhelming cacophony of noise, the story starts when a young boy called Todd Hewitt discovers a rare patch of silence. Starring Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, of Star Wars and Spider-Man fame respectively, Chaos Walking looks set to be the next big-screen YA sensation.
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Keira Knightley is having a busy year with The Aftermath, released in March, being her second release in almost as many months after Colette. Based on the novel by Rhidian Brook, Knightley plays Rachael Morgan, a woman who travels to Hamburg after the Second World War to join her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel who has been tasked with the city’s reconstruction.
Moving into a house with a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his daughter, Rachael soon finds herself in a personal drama of political significance. Loosely inspired by the experiences of the author's own grandmother, The Aftermath was a worldwide bestseller and there are high hopes that its film adaptation will enjoy similar success.
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Starring Cate Blanchett, Judy Greer and Kristen Wiig, Where’d You Go, Bernadette is an adaptation of the Maria Semple novel and is the next film from Boyhood and Before Sunrise director Richard Linklater. Cate Blanchett plays the missing Bernadette, an agoraphobic architect who disappears just before a family trip to Antarctica.
In the book, the story is told through a series of emails and transcripts as Bernadette's fifteen-year-old daughter Bee (played by newcomer Emma Nelson) tries to find her. The comedic tone of the first trailer suggests that the satire for which the book was praised will, hopefully, remain intact.
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It's the book you’ve seen all over the tube – a film adaptation of A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window to film seemed inevitable, especially after it sold over two million copies. The plot has a set up akin to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window, as child psychologist Dr. Anna Fox witnesses a crime whilst spying on her neighbours.
Amy Adams will play the main role, and is joined by Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman in supporting roles. The project is also in safe hands behind the camera with director Joe Wright, who previously adapted Atonement and Anna Karenina. We can't wait to see how this highly anticipated adaptation weighs up against recent blockbusters within the genre, The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl,
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From the director of Brooklyn and starring Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman and Luke Wilson, The Goldfinch is an adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. After surviving a bombing at an art museum that takes his mother's life, Theodore Decker (Elgort) moves in with his father (Wilson) in Las Vegas where he starts to become involved in art forgeries.
The title refers to the name of a painting that Theodore takes from the wreckage of the explosion. The piece is renowned as one of the surviving works of Rembrandt’s famous pupil Carel Fabritius, who lost most of his life's work in the Delft explosion of 1654. Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize, the book received an initially mixed reception from critics. The film adaptation could prove to be just as contentious, with eager anticipation from both the book's fans and its detractors.
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After the success of her debut feature Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig is now turning her attention to an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved coming-of-age classic Little Women.
An all-star cast including Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Meryl Streep and Timothée Chalamet will hope to make the roles their own and entice a whole new generation of fans. While this is by no means the first big-screen adaptation of Little Women, and is unlikely to be the last, the talent assembled should bring something new to the now 150-year-old story.
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