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Join america connected a travel astir nan world of lit arsenic we study nan world titles that are coming to nan large and mini screen. There’s a sharp-shooting French cowboy, a Japanese return connected Beethoven, Spanish classics and sci-fi, drama, imagination and spirituality on nan way.
ARGENTINA: ‘The World Jones Made’ (Philip K. Dick)
LIMITED SERIES: The Future is Ours is inspired by Philip K. Dick’s ‘The World Jones Made’ and marks nan first Spanish-language adaptation of 1 of nan sci-fi supremo’s works. The producers of 2025 deed bid The Eternaut are making this 1 for Netflix.
BRAZIL: ‘The Pilgrimage’ (Paulo Coelho)
MOVIE: Also for Netflix is The Pilgrimage, pinch Vicente Amorim (Senna) directing. One of Coelho’s early novels, it follows a visit to Santiago de Compostela and a quest for belief fulfilment.
CANADA: ‘Last Night successful Montreal’ (Emily St. John Mandel)
FILM: Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven) has adapted her book ‘Last Night successful Montreal’ for nan large surface pinch Semi Chellas. The communicative follows Ali, whose life unravels erstwhile his woman Lilia disappears without informing connected nan nighttime he plans to propose.
CANADA: ‘Flesh’ (David Szalay)
FILM: This is very early stages but is excessively bully not to include. David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ won nan Booker Prize, nan world’s astir important grant for a azygous activity of fiction. We scooped nan news that Conclave prodco House Productions, BBC Film and Access are adapting nan novel, which follows István from adolescence to aged age.
FRANCE: ‘Lucky Luke’ (Morris and Goscinny)
SERIES: Disney+ is readying a live-action return connected ‘Lucky Luke’, nan classical Morris and Goscinny comic book series. Alban Lenoir plays nan titular cowboy “who shoots faster than his shadow.” The France-produced bid lands successful Spring 2026.
GERMANY: ‘Momo’ (Michael Ende)
FILM: From nan writer of ‘The Neverending Story’, nan movie adjustment of ‘Momo’ will prima Martin Freeman, Alexa Goodall, Claes Bang and Laura Haddock. The imagination escapade follows an orphan woman fighting to prevention clip itself.
GREECE: ‘The Great Chimera’ (M. Karagatsis)
SERIES: A visually stunning, yet tragic, travel of love, life and death, Karagatsis’ caller is being adapted arsenic a six-part TV drama. The formed includes Fotinì Peluso, Andreas Konstantinou and Dimitris Kitsos.
ICELAND: ‘Fury’ (various)
SERIES: Inspired by nan legendary Icelandic Sturlunga saga, Seberg helmer Benedict Andrews will nonstop Fury. A sadistic communicative of power, authorities and humor feuds, it has been called Iceland’s Game Of Thrones.
ITALY: ‘No Place To Be Single’ (Felicia Kingsley)
FILM: In an idyllic Tuscan town, nan life of Elisa (Matilde Gioli) is turned upside down erstwhile a puerility friend returns, reawakening feelings from yesteryear. The movie of nan book drops connected Prime Video successful 2026.
INDIA: ‘Revolutionaries: The Other Story Of How India Won Its Freedom’ (Sanjeev Sanyal)
SERIES: The Revolutionaries will travel Indian state fighters taking connected nan British Raj. Inspired by nan nonfiction book, it covers nan communicative of their lives, sacrifices and emotion for their country, and will driblet connected Prime Video.
IRELAND: Grown Ups (Marian Keyes)
SERIES: Irish writer Marian Keyes is having a TV infinitesimal pinch her ‘Walsh Sisters’ books getting adapted, and ‘Grown Ups’ is group to deed Netflix successful 2026. Set successful Dublin, it follows nan tight-knit and chaotic Casey Clan.
JAPAN: ‘Faking Beethoven: The Great Producer Lies’ (Shiho Kagehara)
FILM: Faking Beethoven is simply a Prime Video movie adjustment of Kagehara’s nonfiction tome that delves into a philharmonic ungraded successful 19th-century Vienna. The screenplay was written by Japanese comic Bakarhythm, and Yuki Yamada stars arsenic Schindler and Arata Furuta plays Beethoven.
MEXICO: ‘Mal de Amores’ (Ángeles Mastretta)
FILM: Set successful 19th Century Mexico, Netflix’s bid adjustment of ‘Mal de Amores’ (‘Lovesick’) is directed by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, girl of its writer Ángeles Mastretta, and intertwines a communicative of warfare and family.
NORWAY: Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole
SERIES: Tobias Santelmann play nan iconic Detective Harry Hole, and Joel Kinnaman his adversary and chap detective Tom Waaler. The Jo Nesbo adaptation drops connected Netflix successful early 2026.
POLAND: ‘Pionek’ (Małgorzata Fugiel-Kuźmińska & Michał Kuźmiński)
SERIES: Streamer SkyShowtime is prepping Pionek, a sequel to its Polish crime bid Śleboda. Hopes are precocious aft Śleboda became a big-hitting original for nan Comcast and Paramount-owned Euro-streamer.
SAUDI ARABIA: ‘Traveler’s Hell’ (Osamah Almuslim)
FILM: Osamah Almuslim is adapting his ain book for nan big-screen pinch section media powerhouse MBC down nan project. Female head Hana Al-Omair is connected committee nan scary pic.
SPAIN: ‘The House Of The Spirits’ (Isabel Allende)
Allende’s communicative of a family saga sold complete 70 cardinal copies and a 1993 movie adjustment starred Meryl Streep, Glen Close and Antonio Banderas. Allende and Eva Longoria are exec producers of nan upcoming bid for Prime Video.
SWEDEN: ‘When The Cranes Fly South’ (Lisa Ridzén)
FILM: An aged man looks backmost complete his life and, successful nan modern day, fights nan attempts of those astir him to return distant his beloved canine companion. Winner of galore awards including Swedish Book Of The Year, a movie adjustment is successful nan works.
