If you just can’t wait to learn the endings... you don’t have to. Lately it feels like we’re getting all kinds of exciting new casting announcements, from the two leads in the screen adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing to Florence Pugh fronting the movie adaptation of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library. But for now, those projects have release dates of “TBD.” So what incredible books will we get to see play out on the big screen in the near future?
Here are all the best book-to-screen adaptations coming in 2027, so you can read the book beforehand if that’s your jam. Author Tomi Adeyemi’s rich storytelling will come alive just two weeks into the New Year, when her novel Children of Blood and Bone comes to theaters and IMAX. The film will star Thuso Mbedu as Zélie, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Regina King, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba, and the incredible Viola Davis, to name just a portion of the cast.
There are three books in Adeyemi’s Legends of Orïsha triology, all available now, if you want to read through to the end between now and mid-January. If you have Apple TV, you’ll want to start Neuromancer when it drops on Jan. 22. Based on William Gibson’s sci-fi cyberpunk novel published in 1984, the 10-episode series will follow Case, a hacker-slash-hustler, and Molly, a cyborg mercenary, through a dangerous heist that will pit them against AI (timely), massive corporations, and all the powers-that-be.
Greta Gerwig’s take on Narnia is coming and it can’t get here soon enough, TBH. Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is based on the 1955 novel The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis, the sixth published (but first in the timeline of the story) novel in the children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia.
This movie is getting a true theatrical release in February, then hitting Netflix to stream at home on April 2, 2027. Either way, we can’t wait to see Meryl Streep and Daniel Craig in these magical roles. Feb. 12 is going to be a big day at the box offices.
In Kristen Hannah’s novel by the same name, she captures the story of World War II from the perspective of two sisters, who will no doubt be played beautifully by actual sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning. Go into this theater armed with tissues, and read Hannah’s book now if you’d like to know why. At the end of Season 1, Shane and Ilya’s relationship is revealed, setting up the central tension of Season 2.
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