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For moviegoers who love literary variations, 2022 was an excellent 12 months. There’s something inexplicably particular about seeing the story and characters you have imagined and constructed up in your head for thus lengthy bodily play out on the large display screen in entrance of you, and a few traditional novels, newly minted bestsellers, and gripping nonfiction books turned motion pictures in 2022. From an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Loss of life on the Nile” to a movie model of “The place the Crawdads Sing,” this 12 months noticed a lot of movies make the leap from web page to display screen.
As streaming providers proceed to create increasingly thrilling TV reveals and movies, it is smart that they’d flip to novels and nonfiction books for inspiration. This 12 months, we acquired the brand new sequence “Heartstopper,” based mostly on the graphic novels of the identical identify, on Netflix. That streamer additionally gave us one other season of “Bridgerton,” with the third, based mostly on one other of Julia Quinn’s novels, coming in 2023. On Hulu, viewers watched the restricted sequence “Beneath the Banner of Heaven,” an adaptation of the bestselling nonfiction guide, and “Kindred,” based mostly on Octavia E. Butler’s novel of the identical identify. Sadly, some 2022 motion pictures we have been wanting ahead to have been moved to subsequent 12 months, like the brand new Disney+ adaptation of “Peter Pan,” however that simply means there will be extra to like down the highway.
Forward, revisit a few of our favourite book-to-movie variations from 2022, and discover out the place to look at them proper now.
