Is it happening? Yes! In 2021, Deadline reported that Joey King will star in a Netflix film adaptation of Uglies, along with Laverne Cox, Brianne Tju, Keith Powers, and Chase Stokes. And while promoting her 2022 film, Bullet Train, King told Deadline that making the Uglies movie was a “dream realized,” since she was a fan of the books when she was younger. Is it happening? As of right now, no. In 2017, SyFy announced that they were going to produce a TV adaptation of the series, but according to a 2021 post on Stiefvater’s blog, she “amicably pulled the plug on it quite awhile ago.” Is it happening? Deadline reported in 2020 that this series was developed into a television series by Starlight Media, but I wasn’t able to find any further updates about it. Is it happening? In 2019, it was announced that Geremy Jasper would direct Lionsgate’s adaptation of The Night Circus. That seems to be the latest news about it, though. Is it happening? Deadline reported in 2020 that this book was optioned to become a film by Made Up Stories and Snoot Entertainment, with Paolini and his sister Angela Paolini writing the screenplay, in addition to acting as executive producers. Is it happening? According to this 2021 Hollywood Reporter article, Squad will be adapted by Lionsgate Television and Picturestart, who won the rights after an “eight-way bidding war.” Is it happening? I was unable to find any news about an adaptation of this 1993 novel. Is it happening? Yup, Ryan Gosling is attached as star and producer to this MGM project, as of this 2020 Variety article. That’s the latest, though, in 2022, Weir tweeted that Emma Stone was attached to star. However, he confirmed in another tweet that he was just playing an April Fool’s prank. Is it happening? The latest on this adaptation seems to be from last year, when Deadline reported that HBO Max was developing the book as a series, a project led by Charlize Theron and siblings, Barbara Muschietti and Andy Muschietti, who brought both chapters of It to the big screen in 2017 and 2019 (as producer and director, respectively). Is it happening? I couldn’t find any news of an adaptation. Clearly, someone needs to get Timothée on the phone. Is it happening? Way back in 2012, Constantin Film got the movie rights to Unwind, and in 2016, Deadline announced that the movie had a director and cast attached. However, in 2018, Shusterman posted on his blog, “For a number of reasons, Constantin Films, who was developing Unwind as a movie, halted the project just short of production, and decided it would be better to do as a TV series. So right now they are developing it for TV.” And two years later, he tweeted that Unwind is “currently in development as a series,” which appears to be the most recent update. Is it happening? An adaptation doesn’t seem to be in development at the moment, but McGee answered a question about it through her Goodreads account two years ago. She wrote, “I’m so hopeful that American Royals will become a movie or TV show! … My LA agent is hard at work trying to make this happen — I’m keeping my fingers crossed. If there’s ever any news, I’ll share it ASAP on my social media handles at @katharinemcgee.” Is it happening? There was a 1996 film adaptation of this novel, but it doesn’t seem like there are any plans for another one. Is it happening? In 2021, Netflix’s Scott Stuber, who leads the streamer’s film division, told The New York Times that a film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia was on the way. Is it happening? Back in 2014, Deadline reported that Warner Brothers had optioned the rights to the series, but since then, there hasn’t been any news about possible adaptations. “Agree! It has so much potential to make a great TV show. It’s a pretty rich world as well, and they can do so much with it.” —nederlinde2 Is it happening? Twentieth Century Fox nabbed the movie rights in 2017, according to this The Hollywood Reporter article, but there haven’t been any updates since then. Is it happening? In 2022, Deadline reported that Fox was developing an adult animated series based on His Majesty’s Dragon, the first installment in the Temeraire series. Is it happening? In 2014, Universal Pictures won a bidding war to secure the rights to Red Rising, but the project must have been dropped at some point, since Brown told the Orlando Sentinel in 2019 that he was developing the series as a TV show. Is it happening? There doesn’t seem to be any upcoming adaptation of this 1928 novel.
