Ten Book To Movie/TV Adaptations I Really Want To See

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This week's topic is book to movie/tv adaptations we want to see. There are some book adaptations that work and some that don't. I'm always a little wary about watching a movie based on a book I adore, but when I started thinking about it, there have been an absolute ton that I've enjoyed over the last couple of years: The Hunger Games and both of its current sequels; The 100; Divergent; City Of Bones; Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2 (the only Twilight movie I did enjoy); and many more besides. I think it's time to throw caution to the wind and wish for some awesome movie/TV adaptations.

1. DELIRIUM BY LAUREN OLIVER

Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet.

Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.

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I absolutely love this trilogy and I honestly believe it would make a fantastic movie series. However, this series actually was going to become a TV show and had a pilot and everything, but it was never aired due to rejection from Fox. Anyway, I think these books would work much better as a movie series, so fingers crossed for the future!

2. SOUL SCREAMERS BY RACHEL VINCENT

Something is wrong with Kaylee Cavanaugh. She can sense when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.

Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest boy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about the dark forces behind Kaylee's power than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason and only Kaylee knows who'll be next, she realises that finding a boyfriend is the least of her worries.

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Being a 7 book series, I definitely think Soul Screamers would make an absolutely fantastic YA show. I haven't heard any news about TV/movie rights, however, so I'm not holding my breath for anything in the near future.

3. BLOOD OF EDEN BY JULIE KAGAWA

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.

Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for… again.

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Despite this only being a short series, I think these books would work well as either a TV show or a movie series. It's a pretty dark and gritty story with plenty of action that would transfer well to the screen. The Blood Of Eden wiki page mentions that Palomar Pictures has acquired the rights to a movie of the first book, but I have no idea when that was updated, nor can I find any other information regarding this claim. Here's hoping something pops up soon, though!

4. DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE BY LAINI TAYLOR

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

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I would absolutely love to see this beautiful world that Taylor has created on the big screen, and Wikipedia does state that Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to the first book with Stuart Beattie tasked with the writing. This was announced in 2013, but I can't seem to find any other information. Hopefully this is actual fact.

5. THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES BY RACHEL CAINE

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better.

Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?

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TV shows that have more than 5 or 6 seasons can, admittedly, get a little dull after a while, but I think this monster 15 book series would make for a fantastic TV adaptation. Rachel Caine has a knack of incorporating new plotlines whilst also keeping up with old ones from time to time. Wikipedia has some information regarding adaptations, including a statement that talks about an announcement on the author's website in which the rights had been sold to the people behind Red Dwarf. Is this fact or fiction? Also, Youtube's Geek & Sundry have created a web series, but I've heard terrible things about it and can't bring myself to check it out. I'm waiting for an actual TV show on this one.

6. HOUSE OF NIGHT BY P.C. & KRISTIN CAST

When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change.

But Zoe is no ordinary fledgling. She has been chosen as special by the Goddess Nyx and discovers her amazing new power to conjure the elements: earth, air, fire, water and spirit. When Zoey discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite group, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look within herself to embrace her destiny - with a little help from her new vampire friends.

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This is another longer series that would make for a fantastic YA show. With such a unique spin on vampires, it would really bring something new to TV. Again, Wikipedia has some information, but nothing I can find that's set in stone, nor anything I particularly want to see. According to them, it was announced in 2011 that Davis Films had acquired the movie rights, and P.C. Cast had confirmed for five movies. Apparently the first of them is to be released this year, though there is no information anywhere else that validates this claim.

7. HEX HALL BY RACHEL HAWKINS

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father - an elusive European warlock - only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.

By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.

As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.

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While it's true that this series could be seen as riding off the back of Harry Potter's success in a lot of ways, I will admit that I absolutely love the Hex Hall trilogy and would love to see them as movies. Unfortunately, I can't find any information on this one, so it could be a pipe dream.

8. HUSH, HUSH BY BECCA FITZPATRICK

Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.

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I absolutely love this series and can quite possibly place it comfortably in my top five favourite series' of all time. I think these books would make absolutely fantastic movies but, unfortunately, author Becca Fitzpatrick stated in July of 2014 that she hadn't renewed the movie option with LD Entertainment as she felt now is not the right time to be moving forward with the movie. Hopefully it will happen in the future, though. I have to say that the casting will definitely make or break this movie series for me, however.

9. UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFELD

Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases all your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on the eve of this important event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time.

But then she meets Shay, who is also fifteen - but with a very different outlook on life. Shay isn't sure she wants to be Pretty and plans to escape to a community in the forest - the Rusty Ruins - where Uglies go to escape 'turning'. Tally won't be persuaded to join her, as this would involve sacrificing everything she's ever wanted for a lot of uncertainty.

When she is taken in for questioning on her birthday, however, Tally gets sent to the Ruins anyway - against her will. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she could ever imagine: find her friend Shay and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. What she discovers in the Ruins reveals that there is nothing 'pretty' about the transformations... And the choice Tally makes will change her world forever.

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With so few truly amazing dystopian adaptations out there, I honestly think the Uglies quartet would make for a fantastic movie series. Unfortunately, work seems to have stopped on the movie, as the last mention of a movie adaptation was on Wikipeda, claiming that work would begin in July 2013. Shouldn't we have heard something by now? I don't think this one is happening, folks. One cancellation is bad, but two? I really would love to see them, however.

10. RAZORLAND BY ANN AGUIRRE

In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed 'brat' has trained into one of three groups - Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember. As a Huntress, her purpose is clear - to brave the dangerous tunnels outside the enclave and bring back meat to feed the group while evading ferocious monsters known as Freaks. She's worked toward this goal her whole life, and nothing's going to stop her, not even a beautiful, brooding Hunter named Fade.

When the mysterious boy becomes her partner, Deuce's troubles are just beginning. Down below, deviation from the rules is punished swiftly and harshly, and Fade doesn't like following orders. At first she thinks he's crazy, but as death stalks their sanctuary, and it becomes clear the elders don't always know best, Deuce wonders if Fade might be telling the truth. Her partner confuses her; she's never known a boy like him before, as prone to touching her gently as using his knives with feral grace.

As Deuce's perception shifts, so does the balance in the constant battle for survival. The mindless Freaks, once considered a threat only due to their sheer numbers, show signs of cunning and strategy... but the elders refuse to heed any warnings. Despite imminent disaster, the enclave puts their faith in strictures and sacrifice instead. No matter how she tries, Deuce cannot stem the dark tide that carries her far from the only world she's ever known.

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Despite having not read the last book in this trilogy, I do think they would make fantastic movies. There's something really creepy about this books that would transfer to the screen really well with all the amazing CGI work they can do these days, and though there's absolutely no mention of movie rights on the internet (at least that I can find), I'm holding out hope.So what books made it onto your list this week? Leave me the link to your post/video and I'll be sure to check it out. For now, happy reading!

So there you have ten series' that I want to see with movie/TV adaptations! What made it onto your list? Leave me the link to your post/video and I'll be sure to check it out. For now, happy reading!