Book-to-Screen Adaptations

Today in Book-to-Screen Adaptations · October 12, 2026

Hatchet movie, Feral, and East of Eden's cut section

Netflix and director Derek Cianfrance are adapting Gary Paulsen's survival novel Hatchet into a movie, per Variety.
Variety

Harper's BAZAAR profiles the director of Heated Rivalry and how that romance novel adaptation came together.
Harper's BAZAAR

AOL explains why Netflix's East of Eden adaptation cut a major section of Steinbeck's novel.
AOL.com

Netflix is adapting Shirley Conran's 1980s survival novel Savages, now titled Feral, with Jessica Gunning and Michelle Dockery.
TVGuide.co.uk

Penguin Random House titles including Friday Barnes and The Bookshop Detectives have recently been optioned for screen.
FilmInk

Tomi Adeyemi canceled her NYCC panel as the Children of Blood and Bone film cast promotes the upcoming movie.
The Movie Blog

Mike Flanagan confirms Stephen King approved the major changes his Carrie adaptation makes to the novel.
AOL.com

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