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EXCLUSIVE: Debra Moore Muñoz  (Mayans M.C., DMZ) is developing Silvia Moreno-Garcia ’s 2022 novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau for television from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, Atomic Monster and Telemundo Studios. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a retelling of the classic Island o…

EXCLUSIVE: John Ridley, the Oscar winner behind 12 Years a Slave, is developing a feature take on Isaac Asimov’s 1954 sci-fi novel The Caves of Steel for 20th Century Studios, Deadline can reveal. Ridley plans to direct Caves of Steel, having written the most recent draft of the script with Cheo…

(Updated Jan 14 with Neil Gaiman blog statement) More sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman that emerged Monday have seen J.K. Rowling offer a chilling and insightful comparison for The Sandman writer. Not long after New York magazine published its detailed cover story on multiple new…

While the horror genre continues to evolve onscreen, the stories of R.L. Stine are spooking audiences of a whole new generation. In Sony Pictures Television‘s Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Season 2 of the Disney+ anthology adaptation from Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller, the author’s works come…

EXCLUSIVE: Bond Group Entertainment, Linden Productions, 51 Entertainment and Seaview have acquired rights to Eliza Kennedy"s Lucky Night ahead of its anticipated March 25, 2025 sale date from Crown Publishing Group. Kennedy will adopt the novel as an original play. Lucky Night is centered on…

EXCLUSIVE: Wonder Project, the recently launched faith-based indie studio from Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten and Jon Erwin, has launched development on The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel by Fannie Flagg, to be produced by and star Country…

Several best-selling books have inspired new and returning television series this year as well as box office movie magnets like the conclusion to Jon M. Chu’s Wicked and Regretting You based on Colleen Hoover’s book. Still novel adaptations more are in the works, like the many romantic comedies of Emi…

Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satantic Verses hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week. The novel, which forced the India-born author into hiding after its publication in 1988, has gone on sale at Bahrisons Booksellers in New Delhi, and the news has…

Though the story of the Bad Sisters on Apple TV+ may be over following the Season 2 finale on Christmas Day, creator Sharon Horgan is already working on another project. During an interview for Bustle"s “One Nightstand,” Horgan revealed her hopes to bring an adaptation of Vladimir by Julia May…

Colleen Hoover is standing with Blake Lively after the actress filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against Justin Baldoni. The It Ends With Us author showed her support for Lively, who starred in the Baldoni-directed adaptation of her 2016 novel, with some kind words on her…

Updated with the latest: Colleen Hoover"s popular thriller Verity is in the works for a feature film adaptation with Amazon MGM Studios starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett and another of her books Regretting You has been picked up for an indie adaptation with stars already…

EXCLUSIVE: In a strong year-end book deal, Apple Studios has paid seven figures for the Elliot Ackerman novel Sheepdogs for Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to develop as a series. The book will be published summer 2025 by Alfred K. Knopf/Penguin Random House. Eleven bidders were in the…