Famed author Stephen King's total domination of the pop culture landscape continued on the television front, with The CW announcing on Tuesday that the network has placed Revelations (working title) into development. The one-hour drama is based on King's 1984 short story "The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson" and stems from writer Maisie Culver (Last Man […]
To be clear, he wasn't saying that our current health crisis was on par with "Captain Trips" but that the path it's been taking (and how the government is responding to it) is a little more on-par with the novel that some might admit Flash ahead to last week when King once again took to[...]
Fabian Nicieza, is best known for writing the X-Men comics, co-creating Deadpool, Domino and X-Force with Rob Liefeld, The New Warriors with Mark Bagley, and writing long stretches on Cable and Deadpool, Trinity, Thunderbolts, Wonder Man, Gambit, Nomad, and editing Acclaim's Valiant line.Today it was announced through Publisher's Weekly that he has sold his first[...]
A recent book covering the latest plots in the storyline of Magic: The Gathering entitled "War of the Spark: Forsaken" has come under scrutiny by gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Magic players (among many others) for its content. Greg Weisman, the author, seems to have done a lot of people in the community dirty, according […]
Brace yourselves, Magic fandom, for Oko, the newest planeswalker to grace the Blind Eternities! According to Forbes.com, Oko, full name to be determined, is the newest Planeswalker character for the Magic: the Gathering trading card game. Oko is explained in a Forbes interview with Nic Kelman, Head of Story and Entertainment at Wizards of the […]
Williams, and Jamie Harris.[caption id="attachment_1047108" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Credit: Harper/FOX/History/Warner Bros.[/caption]Adapted from Matt Ruff‘s novel of the same name, the project stems from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele‘s (Get Out) Monkeypaw Productions, J.J Abrams’s Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television. Yann Demange (Top Boy) will direct and executive produce the first episode; with Underground's Misha Green writing the pilot and serving[...]
Amazon Studios has greenlit a 10-episode TV series based on Naomi Alderman’s award-winning 2016 novel The Power Reed Moreno will direct the series, which will be shot in several countries across the world The last show to do that was the Wachowskis’ postmodernist Science Fiction LGBTQ telenovela Sens8 on Netflix. The novel is about a drastic[...]
When Lifetime's new drama You returns for its second season some time in 2019, it will be with one major change: it won't be on Lifetime. The Penn Badgley/Elizabeth Lail-starrer moves to Netflix beginning with season 2, becoming a Netflix global original. The first season of the psychological thriller is set to premiere on the […]
If you had told me that nearly 20 years later I'd be feeling the same chills and excitement from another novel of his in Adjustment Day, I'd kiss you and thank you for the spoiler.I've been hooked ever since the film and have enjoyed my time being grossed out and horrified throughout his novels, as[...]
A new year means a new season of Starz's critically acclaimed adaptation of Neil Gaiman's popular novel, which means the cabler's PR push for the new season begins in earnest in about the next month or so; and I'm assuming we're looking as a late Spring/early Summer 2018 premiere (similar to the first season).I'm a[...]
Based on Barbara Rose Booker's popular 2009 novel, Kahnweiler will write the series adaptation; and serve as executive producer with Erwin More and Brian Medavoy (American High, Just Shoot Me). Alan Nevins and Suzy Unger will also serve as producers.The CW's adaptation of The Viagra Diaries centers on Kit, a gorgeous intern new in town who gets[...]
At the turn of the century, a new kind of evil stalks the streets that requires a different approach to law enforcement and criminal investigation — a new way to look at the criminal mind. As we see from the newest trailer for TNT's adaptation of Caleb Carr's The Alienist, police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Brian […]
Based on Dan Simmons's novel and executive produced by Scott, David Kajganich, and Soo Hugh, the two-hour season premiere of the historical drama is set to debut on Monday, March 26th, 2018.You can check out the teaser trailer for the 10-episode series below, along with an official synopsis from AMC:Inspired by a true story and adapted from[...]
Based on author Attica Locke's newest novel Bluebird, Bluebird Locke will write the adaptation of her novel, and will executive produce with 3 Arts’ Richard Abate, Jermaine Johnson and Will Rowbotham.Here's what publisher Little Brown Company has to say about the novel, the first of a proposed trilogy:
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays[...]
Based on the 2015 novel by Sarai Walker, the 10-episode revenge-fantasy drama has Margulies as magazine editor Kitty Montgomery opposite Joy Nash's (Twin Peaks) Plum Kettle in a story that focuses on society’s obsession with weight loss and beauty.Here’s how publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt summarizes the novel, giving us some insight into the story:
“The diet revolution is[...]
Yesterday, Audible announced the upcoming release of Artemis, Andy Weir's follow-up novel to The Martian.. and it's being narrated by Rosario Dawson.Artemis will be arriving on November 14th and according to THR.com:
"[Artemis] follows a small-time criminal who, while plotting the perfect crime, gets caught up in a conspiracy to control the moon's first and only[...]
The novel centers on events at a theater in Toronto and the travels of a post-apocalyptic travelling symphony in northern Michigan Locals to both northern Michigan and Toronto will recognize places in the book, as well as details such as the prevalent tourist sweaters (if you’ve been up here, you know they are everywhere).Station Eleven struck[...]
Author Nnedi Okorafor took to her Twitter account today to announce that HBO "is now in early development" on a series adaptation of her sci-fi fantasy novel Who Fears Death, with George R.R Martin (Game of Thrones) tapped as executive producer.Here's an overview of Who Fears Death from Penguin Random House, who published the novel[...]
[rwp-review id="1"] Somewhere between Mad Max and the zany humor of the original Dawn of the Dead, K.S. Merbeth's book Bite is a dark and fun read. Yes, it does deal with horrible things such as abuse, murder, assault, and cannibalism in a serious way; but it does so without turning into a grim and dour […]
Because "The King of the Vampires" fears sunlight, garlic, crosses and a month going-by without another reboot of his backstory, Bram Stoker's Dracula is getting Sherlock-ized , as writers/producers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat reunite for a different spin on the classic vampire novel Variety reports that Gatiss and Moffat will serve as writers on[...]
