Upcoming book adaptations (young adult and middle grade)
by annab-83836 | created - 12 Oct 2022 | updated - 12 Oct 2022 | PublicUpcoming book-to-movie or book-to-tv adaptations. Only including young adult and middle grade titles. I might include other books but it is mainly about those two.
Titles include projects:
-Announced
-Optioned
-Filming
-Pre-production
No release date has been given yet.
If I've missed any titles, please let me know.
2023 Releases:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls563546241/
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1. Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Romance
When the feud between the son of the American President and Britain's prince threatens to drive a wedge in U.S./British relations, the two are forced into a staged truce that sparks something deeper.
Director: Matthew López | Stars: Taylor Zakhar Perez, Nicholas Galitzine, Uma Thurman, Jemma Redgrave
Votes: 48,240
Rumoured for 2023
2. Turtles All the Way Down (2024)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A teenager with OCD tries to solve a mystery surrounding a fugitive billionaire.
Director: Hannah Marks | Stars: Isabela Merced, Hannah Marks, Felix Mallard, Judy Reyes
Votes: 13
Rumoured for 2023
3. Uglies
Action, Adventure, Drama | Post-production
A world in which a compulsory operation wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty.
Director: McG | Stars: Joey King, Laverne Cox, Chase Stokes, Jillian Murray
Rumoured for 2023
4. Hush, Hush
Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Pre-production
Based on the New York Times best-selling book franchise series.
Director: Matthew Hastings | Stars: Shay Mitchell, Wolfgang Novogratz
5. The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Fantasy | Announced
A brother and sister try to rescue a legendary alchemist's secret of eternal life from falling into the wrong hands. Based on Michael Scott's "The Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel"
6. Hourglass (I)
Drama, Romance | Announced
A teenager with visions of the past meets a young man who can see into the future.
7. Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Fantasy | Announced
A young art student embarks an an unusual family quest where she encounters unexpected. ethereal spirits.
8. Children of Blood and Bone
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
A woman blessed with magical powers by the gods and living in a place where you are forbidden to use them, teams up with a princess to summon the gods and bring down the oppressive regime.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
9. Red Queen
Drama, Fantasy | Announced
A young woman takes on the role of a long-lost princess in order to save her family.
Star: Elizabeth Banks
10. Scythe (I)
Drama | Announced
A pair of teenagers living in a grim futuristic world where the world's population is controlled by random culling, are faced with a dilemma where they're both tasked with killing each other.
11. 100 Cupboards
Fantasy | Announced
100 CUPBOARDS chronicles the fantastical journeys of Henry York, who discovers that the old Kansas farmhouse where he's been relegated to live harbors mysterious cupboards leading to worlds... See full summary »
12. Shatter Me
Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
The life of 17-year-old Juliette Ferrars, who has been locked away for a crime she never intended to commit a crime caused by her peculiar "gift" that she herself doesn't even understand.
13. Ugly Love
Drama | Announced
Tate Collins forms an undeniable mutual attraction with airline pilot Miles Archer, and the pair attempt to define a set of rules that will prevent them from falling in love.
Stars: Nick Bateman, Cody Hackman
14. The Iron Trial
Fantasy | Announced
A boy named Callum Hunt breaks three important rules about magic that sets off a series of unintended consequences and adventures.
15. The 39 Clues
Adventure | Announced
The globe-trotting adventures of a powerful and mysterious family known as the Cahills.
16. Love Letters to the Dead
Drama | Announced
A high school student mourning the death of her sister is given a writing assignment that takes on a life of its own.
17. The Selection (2013 TV Movie)
Fantasy, History, Romance
Centers on a working class young woman chosen by lottery to participate in a competition with 35 other women for the Royal Prince's hand to become the nation's next queen. Balancing her ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Graves | Stars: Louise Lombard, Anthony Head, Arden Cho, Sean Patrick Thomas
Votes: 252
18. Red Rising
Sci-Fi | Announced
A lowly citizen on a desolate Mars sparks a revolution against the governing class.
19. The Selection
Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Pre-production
In a dystopian world, thirty-five girls are chosen to participate in the "Selection", live in the palace, and compete for the heart of Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being selected is a true nightmare.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
20. We Were Liars
Drama, Mystery, Romance | Pre-production
The story of a 17 year old girl from a wealthy family. Cady Sinclair spends her summers on a private island. After suffering a terrible accident she struggles to remember events that happened in her past.
Stars: Caitlin FitzGerald, Candice King, Mamie Gummer
21. The Love Hypothesis
Romance | Announced
After an impulsive kiss, two scientists end up in a fake relationship, testing their theories about love and each other.
22. A Court of Thorns and Roses
Fantasy | Announced
A huntress agrees to travel to a magical realm with a faerie lord in return for her family's safety.
23. Illuminae
Sci-Fi | Announced
Set in the future, a hacker and her boyfriend try to take down a mega-corporation. Based on Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff's 'The Illuminae Files'.
24. Queen of the Tearling
Fantasy | Announced
Set centuries after an environmental disaster causes a small population of people to live on an unusual landmass known as the Tearling, a young princess named Kelsea Glynn, tries to save the kingdom by reclaiming her dead mother's throne.
25. Matched (I)
Romance, Sci-Fi | Announced
In a future society, officials choose your job, your spouse, and when you die. After a young girl (Cassia) is "matched" with her best friend (Xander), things go crazy and Cassia must choose between love and order.
26. Obsidian (I)
Fantasy | Announced
Teenager Katy Swartz moves to the rural South during her senior year of high school and befriends the neighbor's boy, Daemon, who harbors mysterious powers.
27. The Diviners
Sci-Fi | Announced
A group of young people living in New York during the 1920s are bestowed with magical powers.
28. Eleanor & Park
Comedy, Drama, Romance | Announced
Eleanor Douglas and Park Sheridan are two star-crossed teens living in 1980s Omaha, trying to get through their own struggles while figuring out the complicated matter of first love.
29. The Night Circus
Fantasy | Pre-production
A story set in a mysterious circus and centered around two young magicians vying for supremacy under the close watch of their respective instructors.
Director: Geremy Jasper
30. The Bone Season
Sci-Fi | Announced
A dark fantasy epic that follows a young woman whose determination to survive will ignite a revolution. Her rare gift may be the key to ending two centuries of conflict and deceit.
31. These Broken Stars
Sci-Fi | Announced
These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds.
32. Shiver (I)
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | Announced
A teenage werewolf falls for a girl, who helps him find a way to become human.
Director: Andy Fickman
33. Firelight (I)
Fantasy | Announced
A young girl who is descended from a line of dragons who can take human form puts her entire family at risk when she falls for a member of a secret dragon-hunting society.
34. Anna Dressed in Blood
Fantasy | Announced
A man armed with his father's mysterious dagger teams up with a ghost, who spares his life.
Director: Trish Sie
35. Graceling
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
A smart, beautiful young woman lives in a world where select people born with an extreme skill -- called a Grace -- are feared and exploited.
37. Why We Broke Up
Comedy | Announced
A high school girl falls for an upperclassman, whose the captain of the basketball team, but their whirlwind romance comes to a screeching halt.
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller
38. The Graveyard Book
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | Announced
The story of a boy whose parents are killed is adopted by the occupants of a graveyard and raised by them.
Director: Marc Forster
39. Just One Day
Romance | Announced
A young couple spend a memorable day together only to become separated and try to reconnect over the course of a year. A combination of Gayle Forman's novels 'Just One Day' and 'Just One Year'.
Director: Anna Mastro
40. Chronicles of Nick
Fantasy | Announced
Nick Gautier (and you better pronounce it correctly as "Go-Shay" unless you want trouble) was your average 14-year-old Cajun boy growing up in the French quatre of New Orleans. He was ... See full summary »
41. The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
Fantasy | Announced
A teenager named Tessa Gray travels to London during the Victorian era where she discovers that she has the ability to transform her body and ultimately meets up with Shadowhunters who hunt vampires, werewolves, and warlocks.
42. Legend (I)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
Set in a future where North America is split into two warring nations, Day and June are on opposite sides of the battle who uncover a hidden truth about their respective leaders.
43. The Scorpio Races
Fantasy | Announced
Set in a mythical world, riders compete in a race with their water horses.
Director: Matt Sobel
44. Tiger's Curse
Fantasy | Announced
Kelsey Hayes gets sucked into a 300-year-old Indian curse when she encounters a mysterious white tiger named Ren at a local circus. Finding herself halfway around the world she comes face-to-face with dark forces and spellbinding magic.
45. An Ember in the Ashes
Drama | Announced
A teenage girl must push the boundaries to save her brother. A young man must do the same for his freedom.
46. Gallagher Girls
Drama | Announced
Cammie Morgan, a young student, attends a girls academy that is a secret training facility for the CIA.
47. The Raven Cycle (TV Movie)
Fantasy | Announced
A girl from a family of psychics falls for a boy whom she was told would suffer a horrible fate.
48. Wings (I)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Announced
A teenage girl from a small town, trying to adjust to a big high school, suspects she might not be like the other kids.
49. Unwind (I)
Action, Family, Thriller | Announced
Three teens, slated to be Unwound, run for their lives in a dystopian future that is too close for comfort.
50. The Young Elites
Drama | Announced
A young woman develops strange powers after recovering from a blood fever and battles against those who want her dead.
51. I'd Tell You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Action, Comedy | Announced
A teenage girl attending a spy-training academy tries to solve the the mystery of her father's death while keeping her a secret from a boy who doesn't know she's a spy. Based on a a young-adult novel by Ally Carter.
52. Aru Shah and the End of Time
Adventure | Announced
Follows Aru, a 12-year old girl of Indian descent who lies to her classmates at a rich Atlanta school. She tells them she owns a cursed dangerous lamp, and she lights it up, releasing the Sleeper, who is determined to end the world.
53. Wicked Lovely
Fantasy, Romance | Announced
A teenage girl is pursued by a faerie king in hopes that she can save him and his fae from eternal winter.
54. Tunnels (III)
Drama | Pre-production
A teenage brother of a school shooting victim strikes up an unlikely friendship with the shooter's grandmother when they both work together at the same supermarket.
Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Anna Faris, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Wilson
55. Time Between Us
Romance | Announced
A teenage time traveler falls in love with a girl from another era and the two must find a way to live together in the same time.
Director: Tod Williams
56. Heist Society
Drama | Announced
A young woman who comes from a family of thieves looks to prove her father's innocence when he's named the prime suspect in a case involving a mobster's stolen art collection.
Star: Annie Wilson
57. Paranormalcy
Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery | Announced
Paranormalcy is the story of Evie, a teenage girl who tracks and tags supernatural creatures for an international agency, IPCA. She falls in love with a paranormal boy called Lend, and they... See full summary »
58. The Hazel Wood
Announced
Seventeen-year-old Alice Proserpine and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of uncanny bad luck biting their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the... See full summary »
59. Wither (I)
Sci-Fi | Announced
In a world where failed attempts at genetic perfection leave every new generation dead by age 25, Rhine Ellery is kidnapped and sold to a sadistic scientist as a bride for his son. To ... See full summary »
Star: Paul Donnelly Jnr
61. The Kiss Quotient
Romance | Announced
Stella, an econometrician with Asperger's, hires male escort Michael to learn dating norms. Their unconventional relationship navigates societal expectations and personal desires, leading to an intriguing exploration of human connections.
62. Aurora Rising
Announced
Ty Jones and his squad slowly realize that the girl they rescued may be the catalyst for a war millions of years in the making.
63. Gearbreakers
Sci-Fi | Announced
In an age where humans pilots "puppeteer" 100-foot-tall robots, a rag-tag group of renegades, "Gearbreakers", led by a young heroine, looks to infiltrate a nation's robots and take them apart from the inside in the name of freedom.
64. Frankly in Love
Comedy | Announced
A love story centering on a Korean-American teenager.
Director: Unjoo Moon
65. House of Night
Fantasy | Announced
Follows Zoey's enrollment at vampire academy House of Night, where she trains to transition into a vampyre.
66. Love in Taipei (2023)
TV-14 | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman's cultural immersion program in Taiwan turns out to be a liberating free-for-all known as "Loveboat" where unexpected romance leads her to question her future.
Director: Arvin Chen | Stars: Ross Butler, Ashley Liao, Nico Hiraga, Chelsea Zhang
Votes: 722
67. Warcross
Drama | Announced
For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game-it's a way of life. When young hacker Emika Chen accidentally glitches herself into the game she becomes an overnight sensation, her world changed forever.
68. The Inheritance Games
Announced
When an eccentric billionaire dies and leaves his fortune to a teenage girl he's never met, the world-and his relatives-are obsessed with figuring out why.
70. I Believe in A Thing Called Love
Comedy, Romance | Announced
Desi, an overachieving high school senior who decides to use the laws of K-drama romances to land herself a boyfriend.
Star: Lee Byung-hun
71. The Gilded Ones
Fantasy | Announced
Follows sixteen-year-old Deka living in Otera, a deeply patriarchal ancient kingdom.
72. We Hunt the Flame
Adventure, Fantasy | Announced
A female hunter and an assassin prince are put on a collision course full of adventure, darkness and romance as they find themselves on opposing quests to return magic to their kingdom.
73. The Kingkiller Chronicle
Fantasy | Pre-production
Feature film based on Patrick Rothfuss's book about a young man who grows up to become a notorious magician.
Director: Sam Raimi
75. It Ends with Us (2024)
Drama, Romance | Post-production
Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.
Director: Justin Baldoni | Stars: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj
76. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Drama, History | Pre-production
Follows Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo, who chooses an unknown reporter to tell her life story. Evelyn recounts her time in the Golden Age of Hollywood and her seven marriages.
Director: Leslye Headland
77. The Unhoneymooners
Comedy, Romance | Announced
Olive Torres and Ethan Thomas are the only ones not affected when an entire wedding party gets food poisoning. Now there's a free honeymoon in Maui up for grabs, and the archenemies agree to play newlyweds to go there. A NYT Bestseller.
Director: Susan Johnson
78. The Lunar Chronicles
Pre-production
Follows a group of women who launch a rebellion against the Queen of the moon. They travel through the stars while fighting to take charge of their destinies.
Director: Noëlle Raffaele
79. Legendborn
Fantasy | Announced
Follows Bree Matthews, as she uncovers a centuries-old supernatural war and the world of the 'Legendborn', and tries to unravel what really happened the night her mother died, while discovering her own unique magical abilities.
80. The Spanish Love Deception
Comedy, Romance | Announced
Catalina's insufferable colleague Aaron agrees to be her fake date to her sister's wedding in Spain. Based on the New York Times bestselling series.
81. They Both Die at the End
Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | Announced
Based on the Novel by Adam Silvera, the show is set in the near-future where everyone receives a bureaucratic phone call notifying them at the start of their last day on Earth.
82. What If It's Us
Romance | Announced
Arthur Seuss and Benjamin "Ben" Alejo meet by chance at a post office and subsequently form a relationship.
Stars: Noah Galvin, Froy Gutierrez
83. I'll Be the One
Announced
16-year-old Skye Shin-a bi-sexual, Korean-American girl- as she pursues her dreams as a participant on reality TV singing and dancing competition "K-Pop Shining Star."
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