Books to Movies 2021

Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice. It stars Jennifer Hudson in the leading role, with Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Karen Clark Sheard, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Skye Dakota Turner, Tate Donovan, and Mary J. Blige.

Bea, Thomas, and the rabbits have created a makeshift family, but despite his best efforts, Peter can’t seem to shake his mischievous reputation. Adventuring out of the garden, Peter finds himself in a world where his mischief is appreciated, but when his family risks everything to come looking for him, Peter must figure out what kind of bunny he wants to be. Starring Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson and James Corden.

Chaos Walking is based on The life of Never Letting go by Patrick Ness. It’s based on a dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each others’ thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. It stars Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Kurt Sutter, Nick Jonas, Cynthia Erivo and David Oyelowo.

Chaos Walking has had many release dates over the past year, so I hope this on sticks.

This upcoming American coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the 2011 young adult novel There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. The film stars Rose Reid, Jedidiah Goodacre, and Katherine McNamara. Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland.

To All the Boys: Always and Forever, Lara Jean is the 3rd and final movie of an American teen romantic comedy based on Jenny Han’s To All the Boys series. The movie is starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo. The film is based on Always and Forever, Lara Jean and is a sequel to To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020), and the third installment in the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before film series.

An aging Manhattan socialite living on what’s barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son and cat. The Manhattan heiress finds herself trying to navigate the world the little money she has left. This book to movies stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges.

A secluded town in Oregon isn’t as safe as you think it may be. When a middle-school teacher finds herself team up with sheriff brother to find out the mysteries near them. Overtime, they find themselves in trouble with a legendary ancestral creature. It stars Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, and Amy Madigan. 

John Clark, a Navy SEAL, goes on a path to avenge his wife’s murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy. The film stars Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Luke Mitchell, Jack Kesy, Brett Gelman, and Colman Domingo.

I don’t know about you but I could look at Michael B. Jordan all day, everyday and be a very happy woman!

First, can we all smile together and celebrate the fact that Hollywood decided to go with a primary black cast. We are moving in the right direction!

Maddy’s father is having to raise her as a single dad after his wife died the day after giving birth. It stars Kevin Hart, Alfre Woodard, Melody Hurd, Lil Rel Howery, Paul Reiser, and DeWanda Wise.

This coming of age book to movie is adorable. Teenager Tess rallies up her biological father, who’s a bit on the lazy side, and a cute juvenile delinquent that lives next to her find a way to cope with her sister’s death. It’s starring Sadie Sink as Tess DeNunzio and Theo Rossi as father.

We’re taking it back to 1984, with a story like no other. There is heat, anger, fear, and more giving to us from the point of view of an American woman who get stuck around very questionable characters.

This book adaptation of 2021 is starring Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley.

Publisher’s Note: A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers’ assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life.

A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.

Publisher’s note: The electrifying book that introduces readers to the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives. “Haunted by memories of two past lives, a troubled young man stumbles upon a centuries-old secret society of similar individuals and dares to join their ranks.” Evan Michaels’ now public account takes us into this organization whose members have been agents of change throughout history.

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Dylan O’Brien and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Nine people set off to a remote health resort. Each one with their own goal in mind, from weight lose to major life changes. Even thought they are surrounded by luxury and elegance they find themselves in a situation no one could predict. This upcoming American drama web television stars Nicole Kidman and Melissa Mccarthy.

The Player’s Table is one of our books to movies being adapted into a Hulu TV series based on Jessica Goodman’s YA novel, They Wish They Were Us. It stars two of our favorite ladies – Halsey and Sydney Sweeney will star.

Daisy Jones & the Six has Amazon in a frenzy. They have turned our beloved book into a mini-series.It’ll star Sam Claflin and Riley Keough as the two main characters.

Daisy Jones is young, stunning, crazy talented and one her way to success. The road to success lands her straight in to path of, The Six, who are also heading toward stardom. This book to movie gives us full access to the behind-the-scene knowledge office in with the music industry. It’s full of sex, drugs, and rock & roll! Starring Riley Keough and Sam Clafin.

Publisher’s Note: Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland. Starring Lupita Nyong’o and Zackary Momoh

Hulu is once again giving us a Sally Rooney miniseries. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t a fan of the book for reasons you’ll find in my review of the novel. I have faith it will do well on screen more than on paper.

Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. Check out my book review for Conversations With Friends.

Jodi Picoult, A Spark of Light is another book to movie of 2021 being adapted into a mini-series. It stars our favorite rom-com actress, Joey King. You’ll be on the edge of your seats with this one, I’m sure of it.

A serial killer in Chicago during the 1930s stumbles upon a time traveling device. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Starring Elizabeth Moss.

Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets.

We have been waiting patiently for this book to movie! The Nightingle follows two sister torn apart during World War II. Starring real life sisters, Dakota and Elle Fanning.

A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality, “Blonde” is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star.