What up Epic Readers, I'm Jesse from the YouTube channel Jesse the Reader.
And today I'm bringing you another episode of Epic Adaptations,
the series here on Epic Reads where I keep you in the know on all
the recent YA book to movie and book to TV adaptation news.
So book adaptation scene has been booming in the year of 2020,
it doesn't seem to be stopping.
It’s explosion after explosion and I'm here for it.
It's the only kind of explosion I like, a good old book adaptation explosion.
Maybe not a book adaptation explosion, book adaptation news explosion,
there we go.
We've got quite a bit to cover today so without further ado let's get started.
First up the trailer for
the book adaptation of Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer has dropped.
It's starring two actors who have been in other adaptations.
First up we have Katherine Langford, who has been in 13 Reasons Why and Cursed.
And we have Charlie Plummer, who was the lead in Looking for Alaska.
We love us some book adaptation crossovers.
It's a bit of a coming of age, romantic comedy story and
it has a bit of a dark humor twist to it.
Basically, we follow these kids who are attending high school where kids
are exploding.
Yes, you heard me right, kids are exploding.
Like they'll just be sitting in class trying to listen to the teacher and
bada bing bada boom, a kid will randomly explode.
Do you know how scarring it'd be to just be sitting in class minding your own
business and have the kid next to you explode?
You'd literally never be the same.
Again, the trailer is out now and
the movie is dropping on demand on October 6th.
Next up we have quite a few books that have been picked up to be adapted.
And the first one that we have is Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender.
Amazon has picked up the book in hopes of developing it into a TV series.
The story follows our main character Felix Love, who is a transgender teen.
Despite his name being Felix Love he's never actually been in love and
he fears that he'll never find his happily ever after.
When Felix decides to fight back a cyberbully who has been harassing him with
transphobic messages the last thing that he expects is to find himself in a love
triangle through the process.
Throughout the book we see Felix on his journey of self discovery and
also figuring out how to love.
I've heard so many great things about this book and
I'm definitely planning to read it before the TV series drops.
Next up, the Warcross duology by Marie Lu has been been picked up to be turned
into a TV series.
Y'all, I just read the first book Warcross recently and
Marie Lu's writing is injected with visuals.
As you're reading the book the words just transform into visuals, and
pop in your mind, and play out like a movie.
So the fact that it's being adapted now is perfect and
I am beyond excited to see what they do with it.
The story follows this super popular game called Warcross and
we follow a hacker who one day hacks herself into a tournament.
At first she thinks she's gonna get in big trouble and be kicked from the game, but
instead she ends up being recruited by the creator of Warcross.
He wants her to get to the bottom of an evil force that has been coming for
the game.
But in doing this, and being a part of this, and
working alongside the creator of Warcross she's led to a bunch of secrets
about Warcross that could change her opinion of the game as a whole [SOUND].
Next up, the book A Song of Wraiths and Ruins, I have a hard time saying that
title, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A Brown has been optioned for TV.
This is another book that I've been hearing rave reviews about and
I'm not gonna lie, my credit card is craving a little book purchase soon.
The book is inspired by West African folklore.
We first up follow Malik, who is desperate to escape his war stricken home.
But once he does escape he ends up having to make a deal to take out the princess in
order to save his sister.
On the flip side, we also follow Karina, who is the crowned princess.
She would do anything to resurrect her mother and
she decides that since she knows how to do it, what's stopping her?
The one thing that she needs to make it happen is the heart of a king.
So what does she do?
She holds a competition and offers her hand in marriage as the prize.
So basically when she marries the winner he'll become a king and
she'll get his heart.
Yikes.
Malik enters the competition seeing it as an opportunity to take out Karina, but,
of course, the thing is Malik doesn't know just what she has up her sleeve.
Y'all, this sounds like my kind of chaotic, I'm excited to read this,
I'm excited to see it be adapted.
I'm kind of feeling like this is one of those enemies to lovers books and
if you know me at all you know that I am trash for that.
So what I'm saying is that I need to read this book ASAP.
The next big bit of news is the fact that the Kane Chronicles by
Rick Riordan has been picked up by Netflix with plans to turn them each into a movie.
Shook, shook, shook.
I feel like this has been the year for Rick Riordan fans because we keep getting
great news about these adaptations happening.
We're getting a new Percy Jackson adaptation and now this?
Now, we need the Heroes of Olympus series, The Magnus Chase series and
the Trials of Apollo series and we've got it made.
This trilogy is focused on Egyptian mythology and we follow Sadie and
Carter Kane on a wild adventure.
After their father, who is an Egyptologist,
summons a mysterious figure and quickly disappears after an explosion
the kids must do everything they can to find him and bring him back.
I've seen a lot of people say that they would like to see this be an animated
adaptation.
And I think that would be so dope, especially because of the fact that we
don't really have that many book to movie adaptations that are animated.
And I feel like these would succeed in being animated films, but
I wanna hear from you, what do you think, live action or animated?
Let me know in the comments down below what you would want.
The last bit of news is an update on a book to movie adaptation that I touched on
recently and that is for They Wish They Were Us.
And that is the fact that the singer Halsey will be joining the cast.
It's always really interesting and exciting when a big name joins a movie.
I think she's a great musician and I'm excited to see how she does with acting.
All right guys, that's all the Epic Adaptation news I have to share with you
today, I hope that you enjoyed this episode.
I wanna hear from you guys down below in the comments now.
Let me know in the comments which adaptation you're most looking forward to.
We've got so many adaptations coming our way and
I can't wait to see how all these books translate into TV or film.
As always, thank you guys so much for
watching and I will see you next month with another episode of Epic Adaptations.