The book becomes a film anno 2016

The new year has started so it is time for a new list of books that are / will be filmed to become films in 2016! This post is a listed overview of which books will be seen as film in theatres this year.

Also I have seen along the internet several lists, and I have put everything together and checked with IMDb. The dates mentioned are those looked up today (January 5th, 2016). If a book was not mentioned in the media before in those lists – as far as I have seen – I have written New to the list beneath the title to make it clear. If I write …As in… means the author(s) of the book wrote a … kind of book.

The list sorted by release date

January 2016 – Total = 6 films

• 14th, The Danish Girl – David Ebershoff
• 21th, Legend – John Pearson
  New to the list!
• 21th, The Big Short – Michael Lewis
  New to the list!
• 28th, The 5th Wave – Rick Yancey
• 28th, The Revenant – Michael Punke
  New to the list!  And partly based on the novel.
• 28th, The Finest Hours – Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias
  New to the list!

February 2016 – Total = 6 films

• 4th, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – Mitchell Zuckoff
  New to the list!
• 4th, The Choice – Nicholas Sparks
• 11th, How to Be Single – Liz Tuccillo
• 11th, Operasjon Arktis – Leif Hamre
  New to the list! Norwegian.
• 18th, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• 19th, The Great Gilly Hopkins – Katherine Paterson

March 2016 – Total = 8 films

• 3rd, Room – Emma Donoghue
  New to the list!
• 4th, The Taliban Shuffle – Kim Barker
• 10th, De Helleveeg – A. F. Th. van der Heijden
  New to the list! Dutch.
• 16th, The Divergent Series: Allegiant – Veronica Roth
• 17th, Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín
  New to the list!
• 17th, Victor Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
  New to the list! As novel ‘Frankenstein’.
• 17th, Miracles from Heaven – Christy Beam
  New to the list!
• 29th, Term Life – Nick Thornborrow
  New to the list! As a graphic novel.

April 2016 – Total = 2 films

• 20th, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
  New to the list!
• 28th, Captain America: Civil War – Mark Millar
  New to the list! As a comic book.

May 2016

• none…yet.

June 2016 – Total = 4 films

• 1st, Alice Trough the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
• 16th, Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
• 23th, Kappen – Carry Slee
  New to the list! Dutch.
• 30th, The BFG – Roald Dahl

July 2016 – Total = 1 film

• 7th, The Legend of Tarzan – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  New to the list! And based on the stories created by…

August 2016 – Total = 2 films

• 4th, Suicide Squad – John Ostrander
  New to the list! As a comic book.
• 18th, Ben Hur – Lew Wallace
  New to the list! Based on the novel by…

September 2016

• none…yet.

October 2016 – Total = 4 films

• 12th, Meester Kikker – Paul van Loon
  New to the list! Dutch.
• 20th, Inferno – Dan Brown
  Based on the novel by…
• 27th, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – Lee Child
  New to the list!
• 31th, A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

November 2016 – Total = 3 films

• 3rd, Doctor Strange – Steve Ditko
  New to the list! As a comic book
• 17th, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – J. K. Rowling
• 24th, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk – Ben Fountain
  New to the list!

December 2016 – Total = 2 films

• 8th, Let it Snow – John Green and Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
• 25th, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

Anno 2016 – Total = 38 films
Some books are sadly postponed.

Anno 2017 – All new to the list!
Some books are already coming next year!
Total = 11 films

• January 12th, The Dark Tower – Stephen King
• February 9th, Fifty Shades Darker – E. L. James
• February 9th, The Mountain Between Us – Charles Martin
• February 16th, The Maze Runner: The Death Cure – James Dashner
• March 6th, Boss Baby – Marla Frazee
• March 30th, Ghost in the Shell – Masumune Shirow
  As in a manga novel
• April 27th, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 – Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
  As in a comic book
• July 13th, War for the Planet of the Apes – Pierre Boulle
• October 5th, Jungle Book: Origins – Rudyard Kipling
  As based on the novel by…
• November 2nd, Thor: Ragnarok – Jack Kirby and Stan Lee and Larry Lieber
  As in a comic book
• December 14th, Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

Unknown exactly – Total = 33 films

• A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers
• All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
• American Pastoral – Philip Roth
• Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
• Ascendant – Veronica Roth (June 9, 2017 ? not confirmed)
• Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan
• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock – Matthew Quick
• Goat – Brad Land
• Home is Burning – Dan Marshall
• Illuminae – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• Knielen op een bed violen – Jan Siebelink (February 2016, not confirmed)
• Live by Night – Dennis Lehance
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• Love May Fail – Matthew Quick
• Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates – Mike and Dave Stangle (July 8th, not confirmed)
• My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
• Nerve – Jeanne Ryan
• Silence – Shusaku Endo
• The Circle – Dave Eggers
• The Devil in the White City – Eric Larson
• The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
• The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
• The Light Between Oceans – M. L. Stedman
• The Lost City of Z – David Grann
• The Mountain Between Us – Charles Martin
• The November Criminals – Sam Munson
• The Queen of the Katwe – Tim Crothers
• The Rules of Inheritance – Claire Bidwell Smith
• The Silent Wife – A. S. A. Harrison
• The Zookeeper’s Wife – Diane Ackerman
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple

Question of the day:

Which film are you looking forward to, to see this year in theatres?

Greetings by Sophie