Image: White Noise, by Don DeLillo/Penguin Publishing
As much as we love our screens—and we passionately love our screens—it’s good to remember that basically everything you watch on those screens begins with the written word, whether a screenplay or, yes, a book.
Those rectangular paper things have long provided the basis for a large chunk of what hits our screens (both big and, increasingly these days, less big and in our homes), but especially as the proliferation of streaming platforms has turned publishing into a race between a bunch of deep-pocketed companies desperate for IP, the book-to-film pipeline is practically gushing.
Take next year for example—we were able to dig up the details on 25 books arriving in theaters and on streaming next year, and that doesn’t even include the stuff being adapted in TV series/miniseries format (we’ll cover those next week). Plan your book club meetings accordingly.
