19 Book-to-Film Adaptations Coming in 2019

Film adaptations usually ruin the book, as the filmmakers edit the storyline and remove most of the imagination, whereas with a book you can imagine the landscape to be anything that matches the description.

The film version is titled The Personal History of David Copperfield. Watch the trailer for The Personal History of David Copperfield. Read David Copperfield.

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• The Aftermath (March 15)
• Five Feet Apart (March 15)
• The Informer (March 22)
• The Best of Enemies (April 5)
• Pet Sematary (April 5)
• After (April 12)
• The Sun Is Also a Star (May 17)

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film.

How to Turn Your Book Into a Screenplay

1. Read screenwriting books.
2. Invest in industry software.
3. Read books that have been adapted into screenplays.
4. Watch film adaptations.
5. Study movie structure.
6. Outline existing films.
7. Analyze which of your original stories would make a good film.

Sherlock Holmes once held the Guinness World Record for the most adapted character from a book or novel, and, with over 44 different adaptations, re-imaginings, and modernizations, we can understand why.

When you read a book, you can interpret the plot and the story to your liking. Books allow your mind to be creative. Furthermore, books are much more detailed than films. Usually a film lasts approximately two hours while in a book there can be hundreds (maybe thousands) of pages of description.

Sherlock Holmes

There are plenty of writers whose works have been made into many, many films—William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Arthur Conan Doyle being the high rollers that immediately spring to mind.

1. Billy Wilder. Notable Scripts: Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960)
2. Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
3. Robert Towne.
4. Quentin Tarantino.
5. Francis Ford Coppola.
6. William Goldman.
7. Charlie Kaufman.
8. Woody Allen.

If you had to guess which living author not named Stephen King has the most film adaptations, you’d be forgiven for guessing J.K. Rowling or John Grisham. They’re close, but as of today, Nicholas Sparks is the reigning champ with 11 movies.

As of 2021, J.K Rowling’s net worth is roughly $1 billion. J.K Rowling is an English author, best known for creating the Harry Potter franchise.