It's Friday! I have just enough time to join the social hop before I am off to work for the day! As always thank you Parajunkee and Alison Can Read for hosting.
The question this week is:
Q: Books are turned into movies all the time! Turn it around. What movie would make a great book?
Ok so it's not a movie but I have really enjoyed watching the show Lost Girl. I suppose you could say that it already resembles a lot of urban fantasy novels but I love Bo and the witty banter between her and all the other characters. I also love that it is Canadian! It does an interesting take on the light and dark fae, creatures with supernatural powers, AND it has some juicy sex scenes ;) If you have not heard of this show please check it out!
The rumours were right and The Mortal Instruments teaser trailer delivered far more content then most teasers do! Teaser trailers are often misleading (based on the Hunger Games trailer I thought I would love the movie but was fairly disaponited once I saw the film) but if the film can live up to it's promise I am going to love watching City of Bones come to life on the big screne.
I have been nearly vibrating with excitement over the past few days after compiling the list of books being made into movies in 2013 and beyond! Of all the books being turned into movies (and there does seem to be an awful lot of them) I am most excited about, The City of Bones by Cassandra Claire which will hit theaters on August 23, 3013! I know each and every one of us imagines the characters in each book in various ways and casting directors don't always get it right, but for me I feel like they plucked Clary Fray right out of my head when they chose this actress! Now Jace Wayland and Isabelle Lightwood on the other hand......not so much.
Either way I CAN'T WAIT until this Thursday to watch the teaser trailer for The Mortal Instruments. Rumour has it that unlike most teaser trailers which provide very little insight into the movie this trailer is going to show a lot more! *happy dance*
Which book to movie are you looking forward to this year? Are you happy with who they have cast? Which movie in the past have were you most excited to see come to the big screen and why?
The following is a collection of YA books being made into movies in 2013 and beyond. This information is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I have compiled this information from a wide variety of searches including, The Internet Movie Database, author web pages, goodreads, amazon.ca, and various web searches. I hope you find all the books being made into movies as exciting as I do!
There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the
epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I
thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more
wrong. There was a curse. There was a
girl. And in the end, there was a grave.
Lena Duchannes
is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to
conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But
even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the
forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has
been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams
of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena
moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably
drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a
town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
Extras:
Beautiful Creatures: Caster's Featurette
Beautiful Creatures: From Book To Screen Featurette
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Title: City of Bones Release Date: August 23, 2013 Status: Filming Based On: Best selling novel, City of Bones by, Cassandra ClaireExtras: Official movie site Extras: Official movie web site
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New
York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed
by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons.
Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the
murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing—not even a
smear of blood—to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?
This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to
ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a
Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within
twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance, when her
mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons
be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary
suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .
Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare’s
ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will
never want to end.
The author of the Twilight series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her
brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a
future with the fate of humanity at stake.
Melanie Stryder refuses to
fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of
their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has
succumbed.
Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's
body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming
emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't
expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her
mind.
Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie
loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from
her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces
make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man
they both love.
Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving
only two bodies, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring
a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five
factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the
honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful),
and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all
sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of
their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and
being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that
surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames
herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice
they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance
and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As
initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really
are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes
exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret,
one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death.
And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her
seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save
those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
R is a young man with an existential crisis--he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, noidentity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and stragely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world. Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.
Starring: Saurise Ronan (Susie Salmon in The Lovely Bones) as Daisy
Synopsis:
“Every war has turning points and every person too.”
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.
As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.
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