I recently became aware that some popular romance novels were adapted into manga, thanks to u/38papaya and u/rainsoaked88 for their posts about Lisa Kleypas and Loretta Chase books adapted into manga. That made me curious about if more had been adapted and so I started to investigate. All the ones I found were published by Ohzora Shuppan and so I looked through their catalog with the help of Google Translate to see if I recognized any of the other authors.
I used the website Manga Updates to search each author and the manga they had published. Through some careful searching, google translating and matching character names up with Goodreads, I think I found the corresponding English book titles to match each manga title. Than, I put everything into a Google spreadsheet and found links to buy when possible (Some manga had 2 volumes so watch out for that. Also, for some of them I found multiple links and put them in order of price with lowest first). Here's the link to the spreadsheet.
Finally, if you don't want to look at the spreadsheet, here are some of the highlights:
- Jane Austen: Emma, Pride & Prejudice, and Sense & Sensibility
- Connie Brockway: The Bridal Season
- Loretta Chase: Lord of Scoundrels
- Suzanne Enoch: Lessons in Love series
- Elizabeth Hoyt: Some of Maiden Lane and Princes Trilogy
- Eloisa James: Essex Sisters series
- Sabrina Jeffries: Never Seduce a Scoundrel
- Lisa Kleypas: Most of her works, except the Ravenels series
- Debbie Macomber: Many, including Heart of Texas series
- Teresa Medeiros: Yours Until Dawn (a warning, last time I checked the manga was going for over $900)
This is not comprehensive and definitely double check if it's the right book if you want to buy one of these because it is very possible that I made a mistake in the process and got the wrong manga. Also, the manga are all in Japanese since none of them got translated, besides the Manga Classics versions. Hope this helps at least one person out there!
I did purchase some by Lisa Kleypas, including Dreaming of You, Suddenly You, It Happened One Autumn, Devil in Winter, Scandal in Spring and Mine till Midnight. They are abridged versions of the books and I noticed that some favorite scenes were not included like the lawn bowling scene in Scandal in Spring but pretty good overall. I can't speak on the quality of any of the others, though. I'll try t
... keep reading on reddit ➡Pick yourself if you wish to for one the roles (I'm looking at you youtube channel owners).
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-Guillermo Del Toro
-Alicia Vikander as Mary, Michael Emerson as Dr. Kenneth Lamb
Key word: Surprising. So please, no one answering Stephen King although person I prefer his son Joe Hill myself. NOS4A2 is a very cinematic book and I cast each of their characters while reading, which is something I rarely do.
But my vote goes to Patricia Highsmith. Used to read her back in the '90s and started again when I heard Ben Affleck was starring in Deep Water based on one of her novels. Now whenever I google what to read next, a movie version comes up as well, often crappy adaptions but hey, that's what you get when you try to make a movie out of a woman who falls in love with her peeping tom.
I'm going to keep this simple.
HP Lovecraft specialized in abstract horror. In the majority of stories he wrote the "monster" was something humans could not understand or even visibly perceive. The best example of this would be "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", which i highly recommend you read. It is in the public domain,i believe.
HP Lovecraft adaptions will always focus on the monster, it's design, the monster as a physical thing. And this makes me sad, for Lovecraft intended the opposite. It is what you cannot understand that is frightening.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
When you make a Lovecraft movie where the focus is on the monster itself, the way it appears, the movie has failed. Lovecraft's work has an inherent abstraction written into it.
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Four Full Movies Adapted From the Silmarillion
The four movies adapted by Finnish animator Oriodion are the first actual Silmarillion movies, which I call the Silmarillion Tetralogy. They're voiced in Finnish, with English captions; on the plus side, Finnish is supposed to be the language that sounds most like Quenya.
The four stories will be familiar to all longtime Silmarillion fans: The Story of Fëanor The Seige of Angband Beren and Lúthien The Children of Húrin
This is the most complete First Age film set, and the artist tells me there is a possibility of a Fall of Gondolin movie next year, and maybe even Eärendel in 2021, though he's not committing.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsvNTMFg-b8EyI7Y4RtkbP_a9hbsVgWdO
While I would be interested in a Witcher series, I would be concerned the budget couldn't be high enough to show some of the monsters.
So I love books and I love watching movies/TV as well. I just wanted to know if there's anything online that I could regularly check (that I don't have to sift through) so that I could get a relatively comprehensive, up-to-date list of books that are being developed into either film or TV adaptations.
Any intellectual property would be welcome to hear, including novels, comic books, movies, television shows, and games that have not branched out into the open-world RPG genre.
Please, try to avoid mentioning a property which someone has already mentioned.
Also listing any in progress? 🤞🏼
Aside from books, the stage is the original platform for storytelling (especially fantasy). So why does it seem that fantasy books turning into plays or musicals is so uncommon?
As hard as it is for someone's written work to get published, it's even harder for someone's published work to get adapted into a movie or series. I know it mostly comes down to money and questions regarding profit margins and ROI, as well as who technically owns the rights... but plays and musicals are FAR MORE "user friendly" when it comes to adaptions. Technically anyone can write a play or musical and have it be performed. The budget wouldn't be a fraction of a movie or series production. There are countless local theaters within communities that are open and encouraging for this sort of thing. If enough success and feedback comes from your production, word gets around and it's much easier to grow and expand to other places.
I know the immediate answer is that the publishers own the rights, and they do not make plays or musicals a priority or even an option. Probably in fear of a low ROI or somehow having it weaken their chances at profiting down the road via other platforms.
I could go on and on about this if anyone here is passionate enough to discuss or share your own thoughts.
I just like to dream a little and think about some of my favorite books that I'd like to see as a play or musical. The first that comes to mind for "likelyhood" would be Name of the Wind as a musical. This is because it's already heavily poetic and musical, and Lin-Manuel Miranda has been working on shopping around the potential TV adaption. At this point, whatever he says is the law in theatre. So I could see this happening if he really wanted it to.
But I think my personal favorites would be Senlin Ascends, Orconomics or Kings of the Wyld. I think Senlin Ascends could be a really, really interesting musical with a big ensemble and great choreography. I don't know, I just have a feeling it would work. Orconomics would obviously lean hard into the whimsical side of the stage and hit hard on fantasy satire. Kings of the Wyld would be a hell of a party on stage if you can imagine like what Momma Mia did with ABBA... but have it be Led Zeppelin. Call me crazy, but I'd buy my plane ticket right now to anywhere that would put that together.
TLDR: We don't have enough fantasy books being adapted into stage productions these days. What are some of your favorite books that you'd like to see as a play
... keep reading on reddit ➡Looking for films that have been adapted into straight plays. Not looking for musical adaptations.
Off the top of my head I've come up with The 39 Steps, The Graduate, Calendar Girls, Misery, In the Heat of the Night, His Girl Friday, Network, Shakespeare in Love and Terms of Endearment.
