Later for ENDER’S GAME
If schedules hold, next year will be crowded with movies vying to follow in the footsteps of Harry Potter, Twilight or The Hunger Games. Release dates have been set for six new films (with a possible seventh, based on Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now) plus three sequels to established series, all based on books.
The early spring is particularly crowded, which may be the reason that Summit just moved Ender’s Game, based on the Orson Scott Card book, from March 15 to Nov. 1, 2013, putting it just a few weeks ahead of Catching Fire, the second in The Hunger Games franchise. As Entertainment Weekly comments, the studios apparently “think there’s room in the same month for two dystopian literary adaptations about a group of adolescent children rounded up by a totalitarian government to do battle with each other.”
After the jump, the schedule at this point (for a list of at all the upcoming movies based on books, click on Upcoming Movies Based on Books— with Tie-ins) :
FEB 1, 2013
Movie Title: Beautiful Creatures
Starrring :
Emmy Rossum –Ridley Duchaness
Jeremy Irons — Macon Ravenwood
Emma Thompson — Mrs.Lincoln/Sarafine
Viola Davis — Amma
Based on: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (Little, Brown BYR 12/1/09); the first in a series of four titles.
Predictions: “The next Hunger Games” (The Hollywood Reporter)
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FEB 1, 2013
Movie Title: Warm Bodies
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring:
Analeigh Tipton … Nora
Teresa Palmer … Julie
Nicholas Hoult … R
John Malkovich … General Grigio
Based on: novel by Isaac Marion. Kirkus said it “… hits the pulse of the Twilight crowd.”
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Feb 15, 2013
Movie Title: The Seventh Son
Director: Sergey Bodrov
Starring: Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges
Based on: Revenge of the Witch, Joseph Delaney, Greenwillow, 2005; first in the Last Apprentice series.
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Mar 27, 2013
Movie Title: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Starring: Logan Lerman … Percy Jackson
Based on: Second in the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
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Mar 29, 2013
Movie Title: The Host
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan … Melanie Stryder
William Hurt … Jeb Stryder
Max Irons …Jared HoweJake Abel …Ian O’Shea
Based on: novel by Stephenie Meyer
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AUG 23, 2013
Movie Title: Mortal Instruments
Director: Scott Charles Stewart
Cast: Lily Collins… Clary Fray
Based on: City of Bones, City of Ashes and City of Glass by Cassandra Clare, the first two titles in the Mortal Instruments series.
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NOV 1, 2013
Movie Title: Ender’s Game
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Asa Butterfield (Hugo) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), with Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis
Based on: Sci Fi novel by Orson Scott Card
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NOV 22, 2013
Movie Title: Catching Fire (the second in the possible 4-film Hunger Games series –two films are planned for the third book)
Director: Gary Ross directed the first in the series, but announced that he will not direct this one.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth
Based on: Second title in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series
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Dec. 13, 2013
Movie Title: The Hobbit: There and Back Again — sequel to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Dec 14, 2012
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett
Official Site: TheHobbit.com
Based on: Novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
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In pre-production, with a tentative release date of some time in 2013
Movie Title: How I Live Now
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Saoirse Ronan
Status: In an interview, director Macdonald said he was hoping to begin shooting in June, but is having trouble finding a male lead (HitFlix, 3/16/12)
Based on: YA novel by Meg Rosoff