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.
I don't have much news to report on today, unfortunately,
it seems like things have kind of quieted down.
We had this storm of YA adaptation news and now things have kind of quieted down.
Though I will say that there is always a calm before the storm, so
maybe a storm's a coming.
One can hope.
Let me fill you in on all the YA book to movie and
book to TV adaptation news that I have today.
First up we have the adaptation for One Of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus.
I have reported in a few episodes back how this book had been picked up by NBC in
hopes of turning it into a series for their upcoming streaming service.
And they did not hold back on getting this adaptation going.
They're putting their foot on the gas for this one and making it happen.
The author took to Twitter to share pictures of her with the cast which was
really nice to see.
And then she also shared this really sneakity, sneakity, sneakity sneak peek of
her behind the scenes watching the actual filming of the series.
Obviously she couldn’t show us much, but we’ll take what we can get, right?
The Pilot episode has been shot and hopefully NBC likes it enough and
then will pick it up and turn it into a full on series.
If you don’t know anything about One Of Us is Lying.
This is a YA murder mystery story that follows these students in detention and
a murder that takes place in detention.
And as you read the story you're trying to uncover who committed the murder
in detention.
Next up, I have another mention of an author who got to visit the set of their
book adaptation and that was for the upcoming Netflix Grishaverse series.
I feel like I talk about this one every chance I get, but who can blame me.
I am beyond excited for this series.
Though Leigh Bardugo wasn't really able to share any photos from the set,
like at all.
She really was not able to share anything.
She did mention the fact that she shot a cameo for the series.
Which, I don't know about you guys, but
every time I see an author's cameo in a book to movie or a book to TV adaptation,
I lose my mind, like for whatever reason I get up noxiously excited.
I'll admit it, It's a little concerning.
But my fanboy side shows up and goes off.
The second we get a trailer for this show, I'm gonna need to block the whole day
off because I'm gonna be replaying that trailer over and over again.
And I’ll die every time due to its greatness but
I’ll be brought back to life because of how powerful this trailer is going to be.
Am I being a little bit too dramatic right now?
The answer is yes.
The last bit of news that I have to share with you guys is in regards to the book
My Lady Jane, who was by three different authors.
It's by Cynthia Hand, BrodI Ashton and Jodi Meadows.
This book has been acquired for TV development by Parkson McDonald,
which is a production company.
Now, I highly recommend checking out the Epic Reads Explains video for
this book because they do an excellent job explaining this book.
But I'll go ahead and
share with you guys my lesson preceed description of this book.
Essentially this is the re-imagining of the story of Lady Jane Grey,
who was Queen of England for nine days until she lost her head, yep.
The authors revamped the story and made it something fresh and new and
added a touch of magic to it.
This adaptation is still very much so in the development stages but
as more news floods in about it, I'll be sure to keep you guys in the know.
Since I didn't have much news to share with you guys today,
I figured that I would list off some recent book to movie and book to TV
adaptations that you guys should binge over your Thanksgiving weekend.
That is if you celebrate Thanksgiving.
If you don't then you should totally just have a treat yo self weekend and
check out these adaptations.
We've got the Netflix movie of Let It Snow which was adapted by the book,
Let It Snow by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle.
There's some Looking for
Alaska Hulu series which is based off the book Looking for Alaska by John Green.
And finally there's some Nancy Drew CW series which is based
off the Nancy Drew books.
And I believe that the majority of the first season can be streamed for
free on the CW website.
So if you don't have your nose deep in a book over Thanksgiving weekend,
then I definitely recommend checking out these adaptations.
That's all the news that I have for you guys today.
You should be sure to let me know down below in the comments all your thoughts on
today's episode.
Are you excited about the Grishaverse series?
Are you excited about the One Of Us Is Lying series?
What are your thoughts on the My Lady Jane adaptation?
Have you read that book?
Let me know all your thoughts down below in the comments.
As always, thank you guys so much for watching and
I will see you next month with another episode of Epic adaptations.