Upcoming
These are the ones that have a cast and release date! Titles are linked to IMDb.
- Before I Fall (2016)
- Fallen (July 2015)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (November 2016)
- Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children (March 2016)
- A Monster Calls (October 2016)
- Significance (October 2016)
Optioned/In development
Film rights have been bought! (This doesn’t necessarily mean the movie will make it to the big screen.) All titles with an IMDb page are linked.
- All the Bright Places
- Angelfall
- Black City
- Blood Red Road
- The Bone Season
- Chaos Walking
- Chronicles of Nick
- Clockwork Angel
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- The Darkest Minds
- Daughter of Smoke & Bone
- The Death Code
- The Diviners
- Eleanor & Park
- Elusion
- An Ember in the Ashes
- Embrace (Jessica Shirvington)
- Endgame
- Firelight
- The Forest of Hands and Teeth
- The Future of Us
- Graceling
- Gone (Michael Grant)
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Heist Society
- Hourglass
- House of Night
- Hush, Hush
- The Immortal Rules
- Incarceron
- The Iron Trial
- Legend (Marie Lu)
- Looking for Alaska
- The Madman’s Daughter
- Matched
- Maximum Ride
- Monument 14
- Nerve
- The Night Circus
- Obsidian
- Origin (Jessica Khoury)
- Paladin Prophecy
- Panic
- Pure (Julianna Baggot)
- Queen of the Tearling
- The Raven Boys
- Ready Player One
- Red Queen
- Red Rising
- Scorpio Races
- The Selection
- Shadow & Bone
- Shadow Falls
- Shatter Me
- Shiver
- Talon
- The Testing
- This Song Will Save Your Life
- Throne of Glass
- Tiger’s Curse
- Under the Never Sky
- Unwind
- Vicious
- The Walled City
- Wicked Lovely
- Wither
- The Young Elites
- The Young World
TV shows optioned/in development
- 13 Reasons Why
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- Covenant series
- Paranormalcy
- These Broken Stars
- A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Unearthly
- Uglies
I’d like to keep this list as updated as possible, so if you know of any that aren’t on here or have extra info on ones that are, please let me know!
Which ones are you most excited for? I’m especially thrilled about The Immortal Rules & Talon (Julie Kagawa, duhhh), Darkest Minds, Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Blood Red Road, and Before I Fall; but I’m also excited for An Ember in the Ashes, Shatter Me, and Vicious!
I can’t wait to see developments on the An Ember In The Ashes, Looking For Alaska, Heist Society and Graceling movies!
The Selection?
Ah yep I forgot that one, thank you!
I can’t wait to see books like Angelfall, The night Circus, Vicious and The Raven Boys on the big screen! You’ve compiled a really great list, I’ll definitely look back on it. And Heist Society! That would be amazing.
Excited for a lot of these! You should add Ready Player One too! It’s also in development, Steven Spielberg is set to direct! :-)
Though it’s always good to keep in mind that even though a book is optioned, that doesn’t mean a movie will come for sure. :P
I hadn’t heard of that one for some reason…but all my friends rated it 4 and 5 stars, and it sounds epic! I requested it immediately from the library, and added it to this list. I’m sure the movie will be awesome too with Spielberg directing :D
I had no idea Fallen was getting a movie! I quite enjoyed the book when it came out. Great list – I hope some of those optioned movies actually get made :)
So excited about The 5th Wave!! And I really, really hope they make the movie of Eleanor and Park!
I think Before I Fall would make a great movie!! Oh man plus the Grisha trilogy <33
OOh nice! Some of the optioned ones I knew about, others not…but I hope they ALL make it to film somehow someday soon! Thanks for the info!
Dancing in my chair over Clockwork Angel and Embrace!!!
Wow! I didn’t realize that so many books have been optioned for movies! I’d really love to see Heist Society in live action. Although, I think I’d prefer it as a TV show with each book as a different season. I’d love to see a Gallagher Girls TV show, too. And The Raven Boys.
I think Legend by Marie Lu has also been optioned.
Oh a Gallagher Girls TV show would be amazing! I don’t think a movie would do it justice and there is just so much you could do with it as a TV show!
For me Clockwork Angel, Red Queen and anything by Julie Kagawa would make fantastic movies!
Wicked Lovely as a TV show would be fantastic! And House of Night would be a great guilty pleasure TV show–so much drama!
Nameless by Jennifer Jenkins which comes out in October 2015 from Month9Books was optioned by Benderspink the same company that optioned Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21843172-nameless?ac=1
I believe daughter of smoke and bone has been optioned as well.
OMG, I had no idea about the ones that are optioned! Proves just how much outdated my knowledge is when it comes to this department:)
I love that screenwriters are turning to books for adaptations! YAY!
OMG I forgot about Vicious ! How could I ? Right now, I want to see what they’ll do with the shadowhunters tv show.
And that list you made, it kind of force me to buy the books so I can read them before the movie release … (what ? No, I’m not trying to find an excuse to buy more books, not at all !)
I’m really excited for Before I Fall because I adored that book when I read it. I think it would transition well because of the whole contemporary yet not really thing it has going on.
I’m also excited but skeptical of The Selection. Obviously, I’m excited because the books have been addictive, but I just don’t really them as movies. I think a TV show on either The CW or ABC Family would be better for them.
Oh! And I was subbing the other day, and found out that Wonder by Palacio is in development. I am beyond thrilled for that one because I think it gives middle grade kids and families something to look forward to. I know I’ll be seeing that one. :)
There’s a movie for Fallen? IN JULY? I didn’t even hear of any buzz for that at all.
And so many great books have been optioned for film! I just hope that they’re treated properly. And if they’re not so good, well, hopefully they get The 100 treatment. :D
Wasn’t THE YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu also optioned? I remember her announcing that on Twitter. :)
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The Night Circus would be such a great movie!! You’ve got my hopes up :) I haven’t read a WHOLE lot of these, but many are on my to-read list. It sounds like a lot of these would make great movies. But I’m thinking The Selection would be better as just one movie, rather than a trilogy. We’ll see :)
Before I Fall movie? Do they WANT me to cry ugly tears in a movie theatre?
The Girl With all the Gifts M R Carey will be adapted to She Who Brings Gifts (2016).
There are so many good books on the Optioned list, but in my heart, I know they will fuck up at least half of them. *sniff* :'(
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I’m excited for the Shadowhunters show, because I feel like it would make a good show if they do it right! And Vicious is going to be a GREAT movie if they don’t completely fuck it up for no reason, because the writing is so cinematic already. I love The Darkest Minds, but I’m undecided on how it would be as a movie. I guess it really depends on the people making it! And I didn’t know about Uglies, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that one!
I think Chaos Walking has also been optioned! :D
Ooo, how exciting! I always love to hear Julie Kagawa news. And really??? These Broken Stars is a TV show? YES! ;-)
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Here are a few not on your list from the top of my head->
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2016- 3 movies
The Walled City-2016
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life-2016
Significance -Tv movie 2016
Nerve-2016
Sketchy -2016 TV Show
Unwind-2016
A Monster Calls-2016
Stargirl-2016
The Great Gilly Hopkins-2016
A Series of Unfortunate Events -Tv Series 2016
Freak Show-2016
Wait Till Helen Comes-2016
All the Bright Places-2017
The Maze Runner: The Death Cure-2017
Altered -TV show-2017
There are many more that you can find on my IMDB List @ http://www.imdb.com/list/ls073388923/?start=1&view=detail&sort=listorian:asc
also some that are not on site are :
Breaking Sky
Reason to Breathe
Thank you so much, I didn’t know about most of these!
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