My understanding is, when movies of books are made, or TV adaptations, the sales of those books are renewed and peak. So - the more the better. So what if no one remembers who gets the Academy Award for writing. If I win I know I will remember. {Oh - btw - I happen to have this wonderful screenplay which I adapted from my own novel and ...}

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The 10 Most Anticipated Book Adaptations of 2013

by Gabe Habash 

In our 2012 Most Anticipated Book Adaptations article, we picked The Great Gatsby for the #4 slot. Since the writing of that article, the calendar has changed to 2013 and The Great Gatsby still hasn’t come out. And even though it’s supposed to release in May of this year, we’re going to give its spot this year to a new movie, because we don’t do repeats at PWxyz. It’s just a rule, plus we needed to make room for all of the YAey adaptations this year, because you can never have too much teens-in-peril with supernatural garnish. So here are the 10 movies from books we hope are at least somewhat sort of partially worth the hype.

10. Winter’s Tale (TBA)

Though it’s probably a long shot to be released before 2014 (filming was delayed in Red Hook because of Hurricane Sandy), a lot of people will be very happy when Winter’s Tale, the adaptation of Mark Helprin’s 1983 novel, comes out. The cast includes Russell Crowe, Will Smith, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Connelly. Set in a mythic, Victorian-style New York City and involving fantasy and time-bending elements, hopefully the adaptation will be more successful than the lackluster Cloud Atlas, another epic fantasy with time-bending elements.

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