Outlander, A Gentleman in Moscow, Shogun and Extra Book-to-Show hide Diversifications to Watch
Shogun, A Gentleman in Moscow and Dune are amongst the more than 20 ebook-to-display hide hide adaptations nominated at the 2025 Critics Alternative Awards Feb. 7.
Put collectively to update those TBR lists.
It’s always stress-free to ogle our favourite books delivered to lifestyles on display hide hide. And the critics clearly agreed as more than 20 books changed into TV exhibits and motion images are up for awards at the 2025 Critics Alternative Awards.
This contains the sequence taking award season by storm: Shogun. In step with James Clavell’s more than 1,100-page 1975 fable, the FX sequence leads the minute display hide hide nominations with six at the Feb. 7 ceremony hosted by Chelsea Handler.
As effectively as to its Easiest Drama Series nod, several stars earned particular particular person acting nods, including Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Takehiro Hira, Moeka Hoshi and Tadanobu Asano. And Easiest Actress nominee Anna doesn't correct contain one author to thank for her display hide's source area cloth as she's additionally up for Easiest Supporting Actress in a Drama for her work in Apple TV+’s Pachinko (itself in line with Min Jin Lee’s 2017 unique).
Plus, Caitríona Balfe is nominated for her third Easiest Actress in a Drama award for Outlander, in line with Diana Gabaldon’s historical delusion sequence, and Ewan McGregor earned the lone nod for the Paramount+ adaptation of Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow.
Over on the film side, one main contender is Dune: Fragment 2, which, alongside its predecessor is in line with Frank Herbert’s liked 1965 unique. The film is up for 10 awards including, Easiest Image and moreover to Easiest Director and Easiest Screenplay. While the spice did no longer budge in Timothée Chalamet’s need for his work as Paul Atreides, he is heading into the ceremony a Easiest Actor nominee for taking part in Bob Dylan in A Total Unknown, the biopic in line with Elijah Wald’s ebook Dylan Goes Electric!
Extra books that made a splash on the huge display hide hide consist of Nickel Boys—in line with Colson Whitehead’s 2019 unique—and top nominee Conclave, which is tailored from the 2016 Robert Harris unique.
While these are correct the most standard books taking film and TV by storm, 2025 is ushering in a single more prick of most standard adaptions. Deal with discovering out to ogle all those coming this Three hundred and sixty five days and previous.
Mickey 17
Essentially primarily based completely On: The 2022 unique Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie and Ticket Ruffalo
Premieres: January 31
Why We’re Excited: R-Patz is at his most productive when he’s ready to get dangle of a little extra special. and Bong Joon Ho’s adaptation is promising all that and no longer no longer up to 18 iterations of the Twilight huge establish as he performs a field colonist who’s sent on missions assured to abolish him—but whose physique regenerates on every occasion he dies. Other than for one time where one of his alter egos inexplicably survives and returns to fulfill the most standard model of himself.
Bridget Jones: Angry About the Boy
Essentially primarily based completely On: The 2013 third ebook in Helen Jones’ Bridget Jones sequence
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall and Jim Broadbent
Premieres: Feb. 13 on Peacock and internationally in theaters Feb. 14
Why We’re Excited: We’re always ready for one more adventure with Bridget Jones—and this installment reunites her with a extremely mighty alive Daniel Cleaver. Now navigating lifestyles as a single mother of two after the loss of life of Ticket Darcy—though, worry no longer, Firth serene makes appearances within the trailer in a ghostly dangle—Bridget is motivate within the spotlight. And it appears to be like to be she has a brand new pair of fellows to construct a decision from: Woodall’s dashing youthful man and Ejiofor, who performs her son’s charming trainer. We could well well, actually, be already seated.
Reacher Season 3
Essentially primarily based completely On: Persuader, the seventh ebook in Lee Cramped one’s Jack Reacher sequence
Starring: Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, Anthony Michael Hall, Sonya Cassidy, Brian Tee, Johnny Berchtold, Robert Montesinos, Daniel David Stewart and Olivier Richters
Premieres: Feb. 20 on High Video
Why We’re Excited: From the originate, the High Video sequence has been a thrilling, action-packed adventure that is barely stress-free to leer. And the display hide’s third time out is shaping up to be no diversified because the titular ex-Marine is on the hunt, rescuing a DEA agent when he stumbles into an endless prison mission that forces him to confront some secrets from his previous.
Lengthy Shimmering River
Essentially primarily based completely On: Liz Moore’s 2020 unique
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Nicholas Pinnock and Ashleigh Cummings
Premieres: March 13
Why We’re Excited: Seyfried returns to TV on this Philadelphia-plan drama about a police officer who devices out to bag her lacking sister amid a string of murders of their opioid-ravaged neighborhood. Dark and touchy, this sequence sounds like it’ll contain us on the perimeter of our seats your complete very anxious time.
The Electric Command
Essentially primarily based completely On: Simon Stalenhag’s 2018 graphic unique
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Jenny Slate, Brian Cox and Giancarlo Esposito
Premieres: March 14
Why We’re Excited: In this model of the ‘90s, a civil war between humans and robots has broken out and within the heart of all of this, orphan Michelle (Brown) is off on an adventure to bag her lacking brother. Joining her is Keats (Pratt) a smuggler she meets alongside the trend. The Russo Brothers are no strangers to blockbuster motion images and with a pretty stellar solid of stay-action and exclaim actors within the combo, it’ll construct definite that to be a wild poke from originate to murder.
Snow White
Essentially primarily based completely On: The Brothers Grimm’s 1812 story
Starring: Rachel Ziegler, Andrew Burlap and Gal Gadot
Premieres: In theaters March 21
Why We’re Excited: At final, the OG Disney keen film—itself in line with the Brothers Grimm memoir—is getting the stay-action treatment. And with Greta Gerwig, joined by Erin Cressida Wilson, writing the screenplay, we know we’re in for a magical coming of age adventure.
The Amateur
In step with: Robert Littell’s 1981 ebook
Starring: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne and Caitríona Balfe
Premieres: April 11
Why We’re excited: Two phrases: Espionage thriller. It’s time for Jack Reacher, Jack Ryan, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne to step aside to give Charles Heller—a CIA cryptographer having a peep to take revenge on the terrorists who killed his partner—his time within the spotlight.
The Summer I Become Slightly Season 3
Essentially primarily based completely On: We’ll Constantly Contain Summer by Jenny Han
Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman, and Rain Spencer
Premieres: Summer 2025 on High Video
Why We’re Excited: After spending Summer 2024 away from Cousins, viewers are clamoring for one more outing to tag up for on the ever-evolving adore triangle between Belly Conklin and brothers Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. While Crew Jeremiah is at the 2nd feeling the adore, the 11-episode third installment could well well correct display hide which Fisher brother is Belly’s halt game.
I Know What You Did Closing Summer
Essentially primarily based completely On: The 1973 ebook of the identical establish by Lois Duncan
Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Perambulate Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Hauer-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols and Gabbriette
Premieres: In theaters July 18
Why We’re Excited: The fourth installment of the liked dismay franchise will seemingly be the first to feature an OG solid member—and perhaps two—in more than twenty years. The brand new film, a alter to-up to the 1998 sequel I Silent Know What You Did Closing Summer, follows a brand new plan of kids horrified over an incident of their previous. Though, with Prinze reprising his role as survivor Ray Bronson—Jennifer Esteem Hewitt is reportedly in talks to reach as Julie James—this next technology has the next shot at making it out alive. Suffice to deliver, we know what we’re doing this summer.
Behind Horses Season 5
Essentially primarily based completely On: London Principles, ebook 5 of Mick Herron’s Behind Horses sequence
Starring: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas
Premieres: TBD 2025 on Apple TV+
Why We’re Excited: Every other time, Jackson Lamb and his ragtag crew of MI-5 misfits out of Slough Condominium are on the case as they’re assigned to provide protection to the prime minister from a sequence of threats whereas juggling a chance to one of the most crew. However as this is the Behind Horses we’re talking about, prepare for quite a lot of blunders, Lamb to enjoy a sequence of disgusting snacks and optimistically few casualties.
We Were Liars
Header: Essentially primarily based completely On: E. Lockhart’s 2014 YA unique
Starring: Emily Alyn Lind, Subham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada, Mamie Gummer, Candice King, Caitlin FitzGerald and Rahul Kohli
Premieres: TBD on High Video
Why We’re Excited: This YA thriller dominated social media lengthy earlier than BookTok dictated TBR lists. And with correct reason because it facilities on wealthy teen Cadence Sinclair, who returns to her family’s private island two years after an accident left her with amnesia. As soon as she’s on the island, recollections of the summer where her lifestyles changed without a sign of ending originate to reach motivate—and the twists don’t halt there. And with Family of Liars additionally getting the adaptation treatment, our time with the Sinclair family is most productive getting began.
The Working Man
Essentially primarily based completely On: Stephen King’s 1982 unique (writing as Richard Bachman)
Starring: Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, Lee Tempo, Katy O'Brian, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra and William H. Macy
Premieres: In theaters Nov. 21
Why We’re Excited: Let the season of Glen Powell continue. The Hit Man huge establish takes on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s role within the remake, which follows a man’s quest to continue to exist a game display hide that sees americans chased all the plan by the sphere by murderous “Hunters” for money. Making this the general more contaminated? The film, adore its liberate date, is plan in a impulsively impending 2025. We’re completely on board for this one—though a bit scared, tbh.
Substandard
Essentially primarily based completely On: The Broadway play of the identical establish and Substandard: The Life and Events of the Substandard Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Bowen Yang, and Keala Resolve
Premieres: Fragment 2, Nov. 21
Why We’re Excited: Gawk no extra than the solid list, for starters. Add in that it’s the iconic Broadway musical—primarily based completely, indubitably, off the Wizard Of Oz prequel tome—split into two rousing parts and we’re booked and busy for the next two Thanksgiving weekends.
The Thursday Murder Membership
Essentially primarily based completely On: The 2020 ebook of the identical establish by Richard Osman
Starring: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant, Naomi Ackie and Jonathan Pryce
Premieres: TBD 2025 on Netflix
Why We’re Excited: The books themselves, following four retirees who contain an see for fixing crimes, are simply gratifying. Add this solid into the combo and we’re in for a comfy mystery for the ages.
The Girl in Cabin 10
Essentially primarily based completely On: Ruth Ware’s 2016 unique of the identical establish
Starring: Keira Knightley, Guy Pierce, Hannah Waddingham, Daniel Ings, Kaya Scodelario, David Adala and Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Premieres: TBD on Netflix
Why We’re Excited: Being trapped on a cruise is already a nightmare for quite a lot of but have faith in witnessing any individual get dangle of tossed overboard—most productive to no longer be taken severely when making an are attempting to grab the apprehension. That and lots of hazard is what Knightley goes by within the Netflix adaptation of 1 of Ware’s earlier thrillers.
Of us We Meet on Shuttle
Essentially primarily based completely On: The 2021 Emily Henry unique of the identical establish
Starring: Tom Blyth, Emily Bader, Lucian Laviscount, Jameela Jamil, Lukas Gage and Sarah Catherine Hook
Premieres: TBD on Netflix
Why We’re Excited: Henry has already taken females’s literature by storm in most standard years, so it became most productive a subject of time earlier than her novels received the huge display hide hide treatment. And after main turns in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and My Girl Jane, respectively, Blyth and Bader contain confirmed they’ll correct be the wonderful Alex and Poppy.
Kay Scarpetta
Essentially primarily based completely On: Patricia Cornwell's mega-standard sequence of the identical establish that has 26 books in total
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana DeBose, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker and Jake Cannavale
Premieres: TBD on Amazon High Video
Why We're Excited: If it's in line with a ebook and Kidman stars in it, we can binge the s–t out of it. (Recognize: Rotund Cramped Lies, Nine Excellent Strangers, The Undoing and the reality that right here’s her 2nd look on this list.) Add in that the Oscar winners will seemingly be taking part in crime-combating sisters and it's already develop into our favourite new display hide of the Three hundred and sixty five days.
Frankenstein
Essentially primarily based completely On: Mary Shelley’s iconic 1818 gothic dismay
Starring: Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz
Premieres: TBD 2025 on Netflix
Why we’re excited: Incandescent Isaac is starring as Victor Frankenstein and Elordi will play the monster himself is ample to contain us seated already. Silent, whereas there were limitless works in line with the iconic unique, Guillermo Del Toro—whose imaginative and prescient will reach to lifestyles at Netflix after nearly twenty years—has confirmed time and time all all over again that in phrases of gothic dismay, nobody does it better.
Bridgerton Season 4
Essentially primarily based completely On: An Provide From A Gentleman
Starring: Luke Thompson, Yerin Ha, Jonathan Bailey, Claudia Jessie, Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, Katie Leung, Michelle Mao and Isabella Wei.
Originate Date: TBD on Netflix
Why We’re Excited: After three seasons making an are attempting to cement a whisper in his family and discovering himself, fan-favourite Benedict Bridgerton at final finds adore within the upcoming installment. And newcomer Ha is joining the Netflix hit’s ever-rising ensemble as his adore ardour Sophie Baek.
His & Hers
In step with: Alice Feeney’s 2020 Original
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Jon Bernthal, Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Fox, Sunita Mani, and Rebecca Rittenhouse
Premieres: TBD on Netflix
Why We’re Excited: A twisty thriller that brings a recluse motivate to their fatherland is generally a accurate away certain, and on this restricted sequence, it’s Thompson’s Anna whose return following a murder captivates a neighborhood detective (new Emmy winner Bernthal) who’s additionally investigating the crime.
Wuthering Heights
In step with: Emily Brontë’s 1847 unique
Originate Date: February 13, 2026
Starring: Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie
Why We’re Excited: Cue the Kate Bush classic, we’re heading motivate to the moors. Filmmaker Emerald Fennell is reteaming with her Saltburn collaborators—Elordi starred and Robbie produced—for a take on Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff that we’ve indubitably by no system considered earlier than.
Project Hail Mary
Essentially primarily based completely On: Andy Weir’s 2021 unique of the identical establish
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller and Milana Vayntrub
Originate Date: March 20, 2026
Why We’re Excited: Certain, Gosling’s been to field because the first man, but his most standard mission takes him out of this galaxy as he wakes up from a coma because the sole survivor in an expedition to the Tau Ceti photo voltaic device—a groovy 12 light-years away from Earth. Issues most productive get dangle of worse now that he’s solo and have to continue his mission to reverse photo voltaic dimming and build humanity from extinction. NBD!
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Essentially primarily based completely On: Suzanne Collins’ approaching ebook of the identical establish
Starring: TBD
Premieres: November 20, 2026
Why We’re Excited: On the identical day Collins’ most standard outing to Panem became announced (the ebook will fall in March 2025), Lionsgate confirmed it could well well be adapting the mighty-anticipated story following a younger Haymitch Abernathy—Peeta and Katniss’ famously horrified mentor within the 74th Hunger Games—for the length of his a success fight within the 50th Games.
The Housemaid
Essentially primarily based completely On: Freida McFadden’s 2022 unique
Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar and Michele Marrone
Premieres: TBD
Why We’re Excited: The solid alone is ample to contain us seated for the adaptation, which follows a maid to a wealthy family with some very contaminated secrets effervescent beneath the surface. However Paul Feig, who’s rarely any stranger to a twisty story with A Straightforward Favor—and its approaching sequel—is at the helm so it’s safe to deliver we’re in for quite a poke.
Verity
In step with: The 2021 ebook by Colleen Hoover
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett
Premieres: TBD
Why We're Excited: For starters, we can peep no extra than Anne, Dakota and Josh. The ebook—which follows a struggling author who’s asked to halt a most productive-promoting sequence after the author's mysterious accident—is already a wild, twisty poke. And with this trio at the heart, seeing it delivered to lifestyles on display hide hide is the general more thrilling.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
In step with: Rufi Thorpe’s 2024 unique
Starring: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman
Premieres: TBD on Apple TV+
Why we’re Excited: Is it if reality be told a restricted sequence if it doesn’t contain Kidman popping up in it? Thorpe’s ebook—following the daughter of a ragged Hooters waitress and a onetime knowledgeable-wrestler who turns to OnlyFans after turning accurate into a single mother at 20—is already just on its possess. However this casting has indubitably placed this eight-episode sequence at the pinnacle of the have to-leer list.
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