Books being made into movies

Breaking Dawn, Part I & Part II by Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn the Movie has been separated into two parts. Part I is  due to be released November 2011, but fans have to wait until November 2012 for the final instalment in this epic series. Will feature Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner of course!

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Described as a teenage Mad-Max – this post-apocalyptic story is set in a famine and war ravaged America. Each year a boy and a girl must compete in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV, and it seems like death sentence to heroine Katniss Everdeen.

The book has won multiple awards and garnered rave reviews.

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

Classic book prolific Morpurgo about a horse that is sold to the army during World War I tries to find his way back to Albert, the young boy who owned him before the war.

To be directed by Steven Spielberg.

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

Based on the super popular Stephanie Plum series by  Janet Evanovich One for the Money kicks off the story. Katherine Heigl stars as Stephanie Plum who must blackmail her cousin Vinnie for a job as a bounty hunter when she loses her job. Only problem being - she's the worst bounty hunter imaginable. Get ready for a good laugh!

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

One of America's most respected presidents gets a gothic-makeover as a vampire-hunter  in this funny and absurd novel. Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell and Dominic Cooper are to star. This author also gave Austen a make-over in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies....

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Keira Knightley is to play Anna in this adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy's classic  about  Anna, the wife of a government official, who escapes her loveless marriage with a passionate affair with a young Count Vronsky. Jude Law and Aaron Johnson are also to star, and it will be headed by Atonement director Joe Wright.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Super popular book about a young orphan living in a Parisian train station who tries to uncover the mystery behind an automaton left to him by his late father.

To be directed by mega-awesome Martin Scorsese. Asa Butterfield has been cast as  the orphan, Jude Law as  his father, and Sacha Baron Cohen as the villainous station inspector....a bit of a move away  from his character in Borat!

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

Johnny Depp gets involved in another Hunter S. Thompson adaptation!  Hunter S. Thompson’s book chronicles the boozy adventures of an American journalist working in Puerto Rico in the '50s.

Depp became friends with Thompson while researching his role in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This should be a cool film too.