Adaptations for Fall/Winter 2008, Film Releases

From now to the end of the year there will be a wide variety of adaptations hitting theaters.  From books to video games and remakes, no properties have been left untouched by Hollywood. Read on for a full list of adaptations that will be hitting theaters in the fall/early winter.

September

9/5

• Bangkok Dangerous (based on the 1999 film)

9/12

• Towelhead (based on the novel by Alicia Erian)
• The Women (based on the 1939 film)

9/17

• Appaloosa (based on the novel by Robert B. Parker)

9/19

• The Duchess (based on the biography Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Forman)
• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (based on the short story by Yiyun Li)

9/26

• Choke (based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk)
• Miracle at St. Anna (based on the novel by James McBride)
• Nights in Rodanthe (based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks)

October

10/3

• Blindness (based on the novel by José Saramago)
• How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (based on the memoir by Toby Young)
• Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (based on the novel by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn)
• What Just Happened? (based on the novel What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line by Art Linson)

10/10

• Body of Lies (based on the novel by David Ignatius)
• City of Ember (based on the novel by Jeanne Duprau)
• Quarantine (based on the 2007 film REC)

10/17

• Max Payne (based on the video game)
• The Secret Life of Bees (based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd)
• Flash of Genius (based on the New Yorker story by John Seabrook)

November

11/14

• The Road (based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy)

11/21

• Twilight (based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer)

December

12/5

• Frost/Nixon (based on the play by Peter Morgan)
• Punisher: War Zone (based on the comic book series created by Gerry Conway)

12/12

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (based on the 1951 film)
• Doubt (based on the play by John Patrick Shanley)

12/19

• The Tale of Despereaux (based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo)
• Yes Man (based on the autobiography by Danny Wallace)

12/25

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Marley and Me (based on the autobiography by Josh Grogan)
• The Spirit (based on the comic book series created by Will Eisner)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger)

12/26

• Revolutionary Road (based on the novel by Richard Yates)