2022 Books to Movie & TV Adaptations

There are so many 2022 Books to Movie & TV Adaptations in the works. Between big budgets for Lord of the Rings, big stars for Death on the Nile, and big bestsellers ala Where the Crawdads Sing there is bound to be an adaptation for everyone this year.
 
Last Updated 12/31/22
 

The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Trailer)

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My Rating: Movie-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Release Info: January 14th, Apple TV+. (December 25th, Theaters.)
 
Summary: Macbeth is told by three witches that he is destined to be King of Scotland. Urged on by his wife their ambitions to see the prophecy through lead to a spiral of madness, paranoia, and murder.
 
Starring: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand
Directed by: Joel Coen
 

Reacher by Lee Child (Trailer)

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My Rating: Series-⭐⭐⭐⭐
Release Info: February 4th, Prime Video
 
Summary: Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has recently entered civilian life when he is falsely accused of murder.
 
Starring: Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Kristin Kreuk, Bruce McGill
 

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (Trailer)

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Release Info: February 11th, Theaters
 
Summary: A peaceful cruise on the Nile river turns deadly when heiress Linnet Ridgeway Doyle is found murdered. Hercule Poirot is left to investigate, finding that once again nothing is quite what it seems.
 
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer
 

The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (Trailer)

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Release Info: February 11th, Apple TV
 
Summary: A shy, teenage musician tries to keep things together in the aftermath of her older, more outgoing sister’s death.
 
Starring: Jason Segal, Cherry Jones, Grace Kaufman
 

No Exit by Taylor Adams (Trailer)

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Release Info: February 25th, Hulu
 
Summary: During a blizzard and stranded at an isolated highway rest stop in the mountains, a college student discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside.
 
Starring: Dale Dickey, Dennis Haysbert, Danny Ramirez
 

Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter (Trailer)

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My Rating: Book-⭐⭐⭐
Release Info: March 4th, Netflix
 
Summary: When a Saturday afternoon trip to the mall with her mother suddenly explodes into violence, an adrift young woman’s conception of her mother is forever changed.
 
Starring: Toni Collette, David Wenham, Joe Dempsie, Bella Heathcote, Jessica Barden, Omari Hardwick
 

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley (Trailer)

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Release Info: March 11th, Apple TV
 
Summary: Suddenly left without his trusted caretaker, Ptolemy Grey is assigned to the care of orphaned teenager, Robyn. When they learn about a treatment that will restore Ptolemy’s memories, it begins a journey towards shocking truths
 
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nicole Lockley, Jul Kohler
 

DMZ by Brian Wood, Riccardo Burcchielli (Illustrator) (Trailer)

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Release Info: March 17th, HBO
 
Summary: A civil war breaks out in a futuristic America and Manhattan becomes a demilitarized zone.
 
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Benjamin Bratt, Venus Ariel, Hoon Lee
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith (Trailer)

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Release Info: March 18th, Hulu
 
Summary: Vic and Melinda no longer have a loving and fulfilling marriage so an agreement is made-Melinda can have as many lovers as she wants as long as she doesn’t abandon her family. When those lovers start disappearing Vic is the prime suspect as everyone is left wondering if jealousy pushed him over the edge.
 
Starring: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas
For even more details on this movie check out this blog post!
 

Bridgerton (Season 2) by Julia Quinn (Trailer)

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Release Info: March 25th, Netflix
 
Summary: This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London’s most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry–he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield–the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate’s the woman haunting his increasingly erotic dreams…
 
Starring: Jonathan Bailey, Simone Ashley, Phoebe Dynevor
 

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Trailer)

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Release Info: March 25th, Apple TV
 
Summary: In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant – and that her lover is married – she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son’s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
 
Starring: Mari Yamamoto, Yu Matsushita, Ian H.W. Kim
 

All The Old Knives by Olen Steinhauer (Trailer)

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Release Info: April 8th, Prime Video
 
Summary: Two CIA operatives, and former lovers, reunite at idyllic Carmel-by-the-Sea to re-examine a mission six years ago in Vienna where a fellow agent might have been compromised.
 
Starring: Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne
 

Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan (Trailer)

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Release Info: April 15th, Netflix
 
Summary: A sexual consent scandal amongst British privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake.
 
Starring: Ben Radcliffe, Josette Simon, Violet Verigo
 

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Trailer)

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Release Info: April 22nd, Netflix
 
Summary: Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they’ve never met until one day when they’re made to sit together. They quickly because friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn’t think he has a chance but love works in more surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.
 
Starring: Kit Connor, Joe Locke, Sebastian Croft
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis (Trailer)

Amazon // Audiobook
Release Info: April 24th, Showtime
 
Summary: An alien who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.
 
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sonya Cassidy, Rob Delaney
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (Trailer)

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Release Info: April 28th, Hulu
 
Summary: A devout detective’s faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.
 
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Rohan Mead
 

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (Trailer)

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Release Info: April 29th, Apple TV
 
Summary: Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with a veteran reporter to understand her ever-changing present and confront her past.
 
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Phillipa Soo, Amy Brenneman, Jamie Bell
 

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Trailer)

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Release Info: May 13th, Apple TV
 
Summary: Newly widowed Cora, who, having been released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, is intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.
 
Starring: Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Trailer)

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Release Info: May 13th, Netflix
 
Summary: An iconoclastic idealist runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car.
 
Starring: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Neve Campbell, Christopher Gorham, Jazz Raycole
 

Firestarter by Stephen King (Trailer)

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Release Info: May 13th, Theaters & Peacock
 
Summary: A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.
 
Starring: Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon
 

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney (Trailer)

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Release Info: May 15th, Hulu
 
Summary: Two Dublin college students, Frances and Bobbi, and the strange and unexpected connection they forge with married couple, Melissa and Nick.
 
Starring: Jemima Kirke, Joe Alwyn, Sasha Lane, Alison Oliver
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Trailer)

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Release Info: May 15th, HBO
 
Summary: A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage.
 
Starring: Rose Leslie, Theo James
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Trailer)

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Release Info: June 17th, Prime Video
 
Summary: A love triangle between one girl and two brothers. A story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer.
 
Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Jackie Chung, Rachel Blanchard
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Black Phone by Joe Hill (Trailer)

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Release Info: June 24th, Theaters
 
Summary: Finney Shaw is kidnapped by a serial killer who traps him in a soundproof basement. After finding a disconnected phone, Shaw discovers its ability to transmit the voices of the killer’s previous victims, who try to help him escape.
 
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Jeremy Davies
 

2022 books to movies & tv adaptations

Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between by Jennifer E. Smith

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Release Info: July 6th, Netflix
 
Summary: After making a pact to break up before college, Claire and Aidan retrace the steps of their relationship on one last epic date, revisiting familiar and unexpected places as they question: stay together or say goodbye forever?
 
Starring: Jordan Fisher, Talia Ryder
 

Persuasion by Jane Austen (Persuasion)

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Release Info: July 15th, Netflix
 
Summary: Anne was in love with Frederick, who was rejected by her snobby parents 8 years ago. They’ve now hit hard times and rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law. He returns a Royal Navy captain. Will he remember Anne?
 
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding, Suki Waterhouse, Richard E. Grant
For even more details on this movie check out this blog post!
 

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico (Trailer)

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Release Info: July 15th, Theaters
 
Summary: A cleaning lady in 1950s London falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
 
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Lesley Manville
 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Trailer)

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Release Info: July 15th, Theaters
 
Summary: A woman who raised herself in the marshes of the deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man she was once involved with.
 
Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson
 

The Gray Man by Mark Greaney (Trailer)

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Release Info: Juyly 22nd, Netflix
 
Summary: When the CIA’s most skilled operative-whose true identity is known to none-accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.
 
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Regé-Jean Page
 

Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka (Trailer)

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Release Info: July 29th, Theaters
 
Summary: Five assassins aboard a fast moving bullet train find out their missions have something in common.
 
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Joey King, Logan Lerman, Michael Shannon
 

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Trailer)

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Release Info: August 5th, Netflix
 
Summary: Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.
 
Starring: Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Jenna Coleman, Patton Oswalt, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Fry
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power by J.R.R. Tolkien (Trailer)

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Release Info: September 2nd, Amazon Prime Video
 
Summary: Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.
 
Starring: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Maxim Baldry, Ian Blackburn
 

Devil In Ohio by Daria Polatin (Trailer)

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Release Info: September 2nd, Netflix
 
Summary: Follows a hospital psychiatrist who shelters a mysterious cult escapee, her world is turned upside down as the strange girl’s arrival threatens to tear her own family apart.
 
Starring: Emily Deschanel, Alisha Newton, Sam Jaeger, Tahmoh Penikett, Stacey Farber, Madeleine Arthur
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering (Trailer)

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Release Info: September 7th, Hulu
 
Summary: The story of a young woman’s obsession with a man who is good at being charming.
 
Starring: Grace Van Patten, Jackson White, Catherine Missal, Spencer House
 

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge

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Release Info: September 9th, Theaters
 
Summary: A legendary monster called October Boy terrorizes residents in a small Midwestern town when he rises from the cornfields every Halloween with his butcher knife and makes his way toward those who are brave enough to confront him.
 
Starring: Emyri Crutchfield, Dustin Ceithamer, Casey Likes
 

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Trailer)

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Release Info: September 15th, Peacock (10 episode series)

Summary: In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.

Starring: Daniela Nieves, Jennifer Kirby, Craig Stevenson, Louisa Connolly-Burnham, Nikol Kollars, Alex Hafner
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

2022 books to movies & tv adaptations

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice (Trailer)

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Release Info: October 2nd, AMC & AMC+
 
Summary: A modern-day retelling: Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl — whose addition to the “family” breeds even more conflict.
 
Starring: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Chris Stack, Kalyne Coleman
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike (Trailer)

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Release Info: October 7th, Netflix
 
Summary: The Midnight Club follows a group of five terminally ill patients at Brightcliffe Hospice, who begin to gather together at midnight to share scary stories.
 
Starring: Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota
 

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Trailer)

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Release Info: October 7th, Netflix
 
Summary: A woman in New York, who seems to have things under control, is faced with a trauma that makes her life unravel.
 
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Justine Lupe, Mila Kunis, Connie Britton
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

White Bird: A Wonder Story by R J Palacio (Trailer)

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Release Info: October 14th, Theaters
 
Summary: Grandmère’s heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.
 
Starring: Helen Mirren, Gillian Anderson, Olivia Ross, Bryce Ghesiar
 

The Stars At Noon by Denis Johnson

Amazon
Release Info: October 14th, Theaters & VOD
 
Summary: In 1984’s Nicaragua, a mysterious English businessman and a headstrong American journalist strike up a romance as they soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
 
Starring: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn
For even more details on this movie check out this blog post!
 

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Trailer)

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Release Info: October 19th, Netflix
 
Summary: A group of boys and girls are taken to an institution where they are trained to become fairy tale-like heroes and villains.
 
Starring: Charlize Theron, Michelle Yeoh, Laurence Fishburne, Kerry Washington
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

From Scratch by Tembi Locke (Trailer)

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Release Info: October 21st, Netflix
 
Summary: An American woman falls in love with a Sicilian man while studying abroad in Italy.
 
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Eugenio Mastrandrea
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

Enola Holmes 2 by Nancy Springer (Trailer)

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Release Info: November 4th, Netflix
 
Summary: Sequel of Sherlock Holmes’ rebellious teen sister Enola.
 
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter
 

My Policeman by Bethan Roberts (Trailer)

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Release Info: November 4th, Prime Video
 
Summary: The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previously.
 
Starring: Emma Corrin, David Dawson, Harry Styles
 

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (Trailer)

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Release Info: November 16th, Netflix
 
Summary: A tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.
 
Starring: Florence Pugh
For even more details on this movie check out this blog post!
 

Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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Release Info: November 17th, Hulu
 
Summary: Toby Fleishman knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations.
 
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, Claire Danes, Adam Brody
For even more details on this series check out this post!
 

The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder (Trailer)

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Release Info: November 18th, Prime Video
 
Summary: Family tensions ramp up among siblings in the week leading up to their half-sister’s wedding in the country.
 
Starring: Kristen Bell, Ben Platt, Allison Janney
 

Bones and All by Camille Deangelis (Trailer)

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Release Info: November 18th, Theaters
 
Summary: Love blossoms between a young woman on the margins of society and a disenfranchised drifter as they embark on a 3,000-mile odyssey through the backroads of America. However, despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their differences.
 
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance
 

Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice by Adam Makos (Trailer)

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Release Info: November 23rd, Theaters
 
Summary: The inspirational true story of Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in U.S. Navy history, and his enduring friendship with fellow fighter pilot Tom Hudner. A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.
 
Starring: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell
 

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (Trailer)

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Release Info: December 2nd, Netflix
 
Summary: An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband’s country estate.
 
Starring: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Matthew Duckett
 

Something From Tiffany’s by Melissa Hill

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Release Info: December 9th, Prime Video
 
Summary: Follows a woman as her life gets upended when an engagement ring that was for someone else leads her to the person she’s meant to be with.
 
Starring: Zoey Deutch, Shay Mitchell, Ray Nicholson
 

Kindred by Octavia Butler (Trailer)

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Release Info: December 13th, Hulu & FX
 
Summary: A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family’s past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.
 
Starring: Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith
 

Matilda by Roald Dahl (Trailer)

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Release Info: December 25th, Netflix
 
Summary: Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
 
Starring: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Graham
For even more details on this series check out this blog post!
 

White Noise by Don DeLillo (Trailer)

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Release Info: December 30th, Netflix
 
Summary: Dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
 
Starring: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle
 

2022 Books To Movies & TV Adaptations

 
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Happy Reading & Happy Screening!
~Alison

2022 books to movies & tv adaptations