Monday, October 11, 2010
[Books to Movies] Fall 2010
--image used with permission from youthservicescorner.com
September 15
Film title: Never Let Me Go
Based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro
September 24
Film title: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Based on the books by Kathryn Lasky
Film title: Howl
Based on the life of poet Allen Ginsberg, including an animated re-imagining of the poem “Howl”
October 1
Film title: The Social Network
Based on The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
Film title: Let Me In
Based on Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Film title: Freakonomics
Documentary based on the nonfiction book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
October 8
Film title: Secretariat
Based on Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack
Film title: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Based on the young adult novel by Ned Vizzini
October 27
Film title: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Based on the third book in the Millenium series by Stieg Larsson
November 5
Film title: Fair Game
Based on Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame
November 19
Film title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Based on the book by JK Rowling
November 24
Film title: Tangled
Based on the fairytale Rapunzel by the Grimm Brothers
Film title: Love and Other Drugs
Based on Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy (being rereleased as Love and Other Drugs to coincide with the film release)
December 10
Film title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Based on the book by C.S. Lewis
December 22
Film title: Gulliver’s Travels
Based on the book by Jonathan Swift
December 25
Film title: True Grit
Based on the novel by Charles Portis
Image and movie information compiled and provided by Whitney from the blog, Youth Services Corner
Labels: Books and Movies, Coming Attractions