The year in adaptations

2026 Book-to-Screen Adaptations

8 books. One year. Straight to the screen.

From Brontë to Herbert, 2026 is one of the biggest years yet for books on screen. Classics, science fiction, fantasy and page-turning thrillers are all heading to theaters and streamers, proof that a great story can travel across formats, borders and generations.

Here is the year month by month: what’s coming, the book it’s based on, and the author who wrote it first. Add them to your reading list now, before everyone else is talking about them.

February
Book to Film
February 13, 2026
Wuthering Heights
Based on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Emerald Fennell reimagines Emily Brontë’s gothic classic of Catherine and Heathcliff, a love as wild and consuming as the Yorkshire moors.
Warner Bros. — in theaters
March
Book to Film
March 20, 2026
Project Hail Mary
Based on Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A science teacher wakes alone on a spacecraft with no memory of how he got there, and slowly realises the fate of Earth depends on him. From the author of The Martian.
Amazon MGM Studios — in theaters
July
Book to Film
July 17, 2026
The Odyssey
Based on The Odyssey by Homer
Christopher Nolan takes on the oldest adventure story of all: Odysseus’s long voyage home from the Trojan War.
Universal Pictures — in theaters
September
Book to Film
September 18, 2026
Practical Magic 2
Based on The Practical Magic series by Alice Hoffman
The Owens sisters return to their enchanted, complicated family in the long-awaited sequel to the beloved film of Alice Hoffman’s novel.
Warner Bros. — in theaters
October
Book to Film
October 2, 2026
Verity
Based on Verity by Colleen Hoover
A struggling writer is hired to finish a bestselling author’s series, and finds an unfinished manuscript that should never have been read.
Amazon MGM Studios — in theaters
November
Book to Film
November 20, 2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Based on Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Panem returns with the story of a young Haymitch Abernathy, reaped for the brutal 50th Hunger Games.
Lionsgate — in theaters
November
Book to Film
November 26, 2026
Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
Based on The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Greta Gerwig opens the wardrobe at the very beginning: the origin story of Narnia, from the first book in C.S. Lewis’s chronology.
IMAX theaters at Thanksgiving, then Netflix
December
Book to Film
December 18, 2026
Dune: Part Three
Based on Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Denis Villeneuve concludes his Arrakis saga with Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert’s darker sequel about the cost of becoming a legend.
Warner Bros. — in theaters