Book to Movie Adaptations We’re Looking Forward to in 2025

There are several exciting book-to-movie adaptations coming out in 2025 that we’re looking forward to! Here is our list of movies to watch out for this year. What are you excited to watch?

Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy

Author: Helen Fielding

Release Date: February 13th, 2025

Genre: Romantic Comedy

This movie is the fourth and final film in the Bridget Jones romcom series, and it is based off of the third book in Helen Fielding’s trilogy (the first book was inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice).

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she’s pursued by a younger man and maybe—just maybe—her son’s science teacher.

Starring: Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Jim Broadbent, Isla Fisher, Colin Firth, and Hugh Grant

Rating: R

The Unbreakable Boy

Author: Scott Michael LeRette

Release Date: February 21, 2025

Genre: Biographical Drama

A young boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes him truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him.

Starring: Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, and Jacob Laval

Rating: PG

Mickey7

Author: Edward Ashton

Release Date: March 7, 2025

Genre: Science Fiction Comedy

Wanting to get off of Earth, the financially destitute Mickey Barnes signs up to be an “expendable,” a disposable clone worker, on the human colony Niflheim. As an expendable, Mickey undertakes several dangerous assignments he is not expected to survive, with a new body being regenerated each time he dies. During one such assignment, one of his clones, “Mickey 17,” is incorrectly assumed dead and prematurely replaced. Mickey 17 finds his way back to the colony and meets his replacement, known as Mickey 18. Under the rules of the colony, only one iteration of an expendable may exist at one time, and if Mickey 17 is discovered, both he and Mickey 18 will be destroyed.

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Michael Monroe

Rating: R

The Murderbot Diaries

Author: Martha Wells

Release Date: May 16, 2025

Genre: Science Fiction

This will be a TV series on Apple TV+.

A security android struggles with emotions and free will while balancing dangerous missions and desire for isolation, evading detection of its self-hacking as it finds its place.

Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Jennifer Sendaula, and David Dastmalchian

Rating: Not Assigned

The Long Walk

Author: Richard Bachman (pen name for Stephen King)

Release Date: mid 2025

Genre: Dystopian Horror

In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple—maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you’re out—permanently.

Starring: David Jonsson, Mark Hamill, and Judy Greer

Rating: Not Assigned

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Author: Lois Duncan

Release Date: July 2025

Genre: Horror Thriller

Nearly 30 years from the original film adaptation of Lois Duncan’s 1973 novel of the same name, the franchise is getting a 2025 revival. 

A group of friends is terrorized by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past.

Starring: Madelyn Cline, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Chase Sui Wonders, and Gabriette Bechtel

Rating: Not Assigned

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

Release Date: July 11, 2025 

Genre: Satire

An allegorical tale based on the Russian Revolution, and Stalin’s rise to power, this story takes place on a farm in England where the inhabiting animals revolt against their farmer for their own freedom, only to have their plan slyly spoiled by one of their own, unbeknownst to them.

Starring Kieran Culkin, Andy Serkis, and Kathleen Turner

Rating: Not Assigned

The Woman in Cabin 10

Author: Ruth Ware

Release Date: Fall 2025

Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Psychological Thriller

A Netflix Original Adaptation.

While on a luxury cruise for a travel assignment, a journalist witnesses a passenger tossed overboard late one night, only to be told that she must have dreamed it, since all passengers are accounted for. 

Starring: Hannah Waddingham, Keira Knightley, and Kaya Scodelario

Rating: Not Assigned

Frankenstein

Author (of original book): Mary Shelley

Release Date: November 2025

Genre: Science Fiction, Horror

Guillermo del Toro offers a personal spin on Frankenstein, a passion project decades in the making. The narrative picks up in the future of Shelley’s original universe. Decades on, we witness Dr. Pretorius’s quest to track down Frankenstein’s monster, who was believed to have perished in a fire forty years before so that he may continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Starring: Mia Goth, Ralph Ineson, Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, and Christoph Waltz

Rating: Not Assigned

The Running Man

Author: Richard Bachman (pen name for Stephen King)

Release Date: November 2025

Genre: Dystopian Action Thriller

Set in 2025, a game show called The Running Man has people chased by murderous Hunters across the world to win money.

Starring: Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, and Lee Pace

Rating: Not Assigned

Wicked: For Good (Second half of Wicked)

Author: Gregory Maguir

Release Date: November 21, 2025

Genre: Musical Fantasy

This is the second half of the story; the first half, Wicked, came out November 2024.

This move will pick up where Part One concluded—after Elphaba and Glinda discover that the Wizard is a fraud and Elphaba is declared the new enemy of the people of Oz. As the two embrace their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good, their actions will change all of Oz forever.

Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum

Rating: Not assigned yet, but likely PG or PG-13

The Housemaid

Author: Freida McFadden

Release Date: December 25, 2025

Genre: Psychological Thriller

This book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, on Amazon bestsellers list for nearly two, and has sold more than 3.6 million English language copies across the globe.

Millie is a young and beautiful woman who applies and is offered a job as a live-in housekeeper for a wealthy couple, Nina and Andrew Winchester. But then she begins to discover dangerous secrets . . .

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Brandon Sklenar, and Amanda Seyfried

Rating: Not Assigned

The Thursday Murder Club

Author: Richard Osman

Release Date: 2025

Genre: Crime Comedy

Four irrepressible retirees spend their time solving cold case murders for fun, but their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands. 

Starring: David Tennant, Pierce Brosnan, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Daniel Mays, Naomi Ackie, and Jonathan Pryce

Rating: Not Assigned

Die, My Love

Author: Ariana Harwicz

Release Date: 2025

Genre: Dark Comedy Horror

In a remote forgotten rural area, a new mother struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis.

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nick Nolte

Rating: Not Assigned

Wildwood

Author: Colin Meloy 

Release Date: 2025

Genre: Epic Fantasy

Stop-motion animation.

Prue McKeel and her classmate Curtis Mehlberg are drawn into a hidden magical forest in an attempt to save Prue’s kidnapped infant brother.

Starring: Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, and Carey Mulligan

Rating: Not Assigned

What are you looking forward to watching? Let us know in the comments below!