It's great to see so many of our favourite books get the Hollywood treatment.
I mean it's only April and we've already seen many books turn into fabulous movies and shows. From Mickey 17, Long Bright River to The Residence, 2025 has been the year of book-to-screen adaptations. And we can't wait to see what other adaptations are coming soon to theatres and streaming.
About The Book:
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
What We Know So Far About The Film Adaptation:
The film has an all star cast including Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Celia Imrie, Sir Ben Kingsley, David Tennant, Naomi Ackie and Tom Ellis. Plus it's being directed by Chris Columbus - he directed 'Home Alone,' 'Mrs Doubtfire' and the first two 'Harry Potter' films.
Release Date:
Late 2025
About The Book:
Margo Millet's got money troubles. As the child of a Hooter's waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to be involved - she realises she will need cash fast.
At twenty, alone with a baby, what Margo lacks in options she makes up for in ingenuity, and soon she has a plan: she'll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, producing content and writing storylines unlike anything else out there. Help arrives in the form of her live-action role-playing flatmate Suzie, and her father, Jinx - a recovering addict and veteran of the wrestling world, who has experience of making an audience fall in love.
Before she knows it, Margo is an online phenomenon. Could this be the answer to all of Margo's problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
What We Know So Far About The TV Series:
The Apple TV+ eight part series is currently in production with Elle Fanning in the leading role. Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman and Michelle Pfeiffer have also been cast in the series.
Release Date:
Unknown
About The Book:
In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for—and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
What We Know So Far About The Film Adaptation:
Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, and Hannah Waddingham have been cast in the highly anticipated Netflix film. It'll be directed by Simon Stone. He directed 'The Daughter' and 'The Dig.'
Release Date:
Late 2025
About The Book:
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black--or Wash--a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee together. Over the course of their travels, what brings Wash and Christopher together will tear them apart, propelling Wash ever farther across the globe in search of his true self.
What We Know So Far About The TV Series:
The nine-part limited series will be produced by ''Twilight Zone' writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds alongside actor Sterling K. Brown under his Indian Meadows Productions banner.
Release Date:
Unknown
About The Book:
Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.
As news of the disappearance filters through the quiet Dublin suburb and an unexpected suspect is named, whispers start to spread about the women most closely connected to the shocking event. Because only one of them may have taken Milo - but they could all be blamed.
What We Know So Far About The TV Series:
The award winning actress from 'Succession,' Sarah Snook, has been cast in the leading role. Filming took place in Melbourne in August 2024.
Release Date:
Unknown
About The Book:
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.
I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.
I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am. They don't know what I'm capable of.
What We Know So Far About The Film Adaptation:
Director Paul Feig from 'A Simple Favour' will be adapting this bestselling story onto the big screen. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried have been cast in the leading roles.
Release Date:
25th December 2025
About The Book:
Katherine and Michael are ready--for each other, for love. Katherine is ready for her first time. They are both ready for this to be forever. They are perfect together, inseparable. Until the summer separates them, and Katherine meets Theo. But she and Michael are truly in love. That means forever. Right? Is this really the love of a lifetime, or the very beginning of a lifetime of love?
What We Know So Far About The TV Series:
The show stars Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. Regina King is also the executive producer and will be directing the first episode.
Release Date:
8th May 2025 on Netflix
About The Book:
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
What We Know So Far About The Film Adaptation:
The movie has a star studded cast including Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Natasha Lyonne, Steve Buscemi and Mia Tharia. It's also being directed by the Taika Waititi.
Release Date:
Unknown date in 2025
About The Book:
Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity''s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn''t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity''s recollection of the night their family was forever altered.
Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already-grieving father. But as Lowen''s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognises all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife''s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
What We Know So Far About The Film Adaptation:
Michael Showalter is set to direct the Amazon MGM Studios film. He produced 'The Dropout,' 'Wet Hot American Summer' and of course our personal favourite 'The Idea Of You.' Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett have been cast in the film. Production has just wrapped up.
Release Date:
15th May 2025
About The Book:
For a while, it seemed like both Taylor sisters had found happiness. Chloe landed a coveted publishing job in New York City. Nicky got married to a promising young attorney named Adam McIntosh and became a mother to a baby boy named Ethan.
But now, fourteen years later, it is Chloe who is married to Adam. When he is murdered at the couple's beach house, she has no choice but to welcome her estranged sister - her teenage stepson''s biological mother - back into her life. When the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect, the sisters are forced to confront the truth behind family secrets they both tried to leave behind in order to protect the boy they love, whatever the cost.
What We Know So Far About The TV Series:
The Prime Video limited series will be directed by Craig Gillespie from 'I, Tonya' and 'Cruella.' Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks have been cast as the estranged sisters. The show wrapped filming in October last year.
Release Date:
Late 2025
About The Book:
Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realises that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. As Sophie’s curiosity gives way to full-blown obsession, she slips farther away from the safety of her family and deeper into this nest of vipers. When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spiraling out of control.
What We Know So Far About The TV Series:
The book is set to be adapted into an eight part series. The show has an all star cast including Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow, Chrissy Metz and Dermot Mulroney.
Release Date:
Unknown date in 2025
