You Won't Want To Miss These Movies Based On Books In 2025
Some of our most beloved movies have come from great novels: The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Lord of the Rings (2001), The Godfather (1972), and many more. These movies based on books are being released in 2025. Which are you most excited for?
Dog Man
Dog Man (2025) is slated to hit theaters on January 31st of next year. A children's movie based on the eponymous books by author Dan Pilkey, writer of the Captain Underpants (1997) series, Dog Man follows a superhero who's part-man and part-dog. While the adults in the room may scoff, the kids who love Captain Underpants and who may have already read the Dog Man book series should definitely get a ticket to see the movie.
Mickey 17
You might recognize Edward Cullen, I mean, Robert Pattinson of Twilight (2008) in Mickey 17 (2025). It's based on the book by Edward Ashton and stars Mark Ruffalo alongside Pattinson in a space-age movie all about a disposable employee named Mickey (Pattinson) on an expedition through space to colonize an ice world, Niflheim. As one iteration of Mickey dies, another is reborn, with the previous versions of himself still intact.
A mind-bending sci-fi psych thriller, it drops in theaters on January 31, 2025.
Warner Bros., Mickey 17 (2025)
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
The third installment of the Bridget Jones series sees Renée Zellweger reprise her role as the iconic Bridget Jones, alongside Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy (2025) sees Jones struggling with single motherhood in what is sure to be another smash hit in one of the best romantic movie series of all time.
Universal, Bridget Jones; Mad About The Boy (2025)
Not Without Hope
Not Without Hope is based on an incredible true story of how three NFL football players got into a serious boating accident, told through the eyes of the lone survivor. Authored by Nick Schuyler, who survived the accident, the book is re-told in a gripping drama of survival starring Josh Duhamel and Zachary Levi.
Not Without Hope (2025) drops in theaters on February 20th.
The Amateur
Robert Littrell's 1981 spy thriller, The Amateur (2025), is set to be adapted into a movie starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, and Laurence Fishburne. A CIA cryptographer's fiancée is murdered by terrorists—and when The Agency refuses to help, he must take matters into his own hands. The Amateur drops on April 11, 2025.
Twentieth Century, The Amateur (2025)
The Twits
While Roald Dahl's books have been adapted countless times over the years, including Matilda (1996), or the classic musical: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971), The Twits (1980) has yet to be adapted, so the upcoming film will be an exciting first for lovers of Roald Dahl or viewers who loved his previous novel adaptations when they were kids. The Twits is set to drop into theaters on June 13, 2025.
Cold Storage
An action thriller starring Liam Neeson?
Say it ain't so! Cold Storage (2025) is based on a book of the same name by David Koepp, who's the screenwriter behind Jurassic Park (1993) and Mission: Impossible (1996). Cold Storage tells a gripping story of a group of strangers who must band together to stop the spread of a deadly, contagious fungus that's escaped from a government storage facility and is wreaking havoc on the world.
Frankenstein
Another adaptation of Frankenstein is coming in 2025. This time, Guillermo del Toro tries his hand at adapting Mary Shelley's classic novel from 1818.
But, del Toro is doing something different, with his movie set in the future of Shelley's universe—as Dr Pretorius tries to track down Frankenstein's monster, who disappeared after a fire 40 years ago. But Pretorius has a sinister aim: to reanimate and continue the experiment of Dr Victor Frankenstein's monster.
Although no date has been set yet, the futuristic take on Frankenstein is set to come to Netflix in early 2025.
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Lois Duncan's 1973 best-seller, I Know What You Did Last Summer, was already adapted for the big screen in 1997. I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) is a fresh take on the classic horror from the late 90s that starred Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. This latest adaptation sees the two reprise their roles, but new cast members join:
Madelyn Cline and Nicholas Chavez star alongside the iconic pairing. A group are terrorized by a stalker who knows what they did last summer—and a thing or two about the events of the summer of 1997.
Mandalay Entertainment, I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
The Housemaid
Based on the best-selling psychological thriller novel The Housemaid (2022) by Freida McFadden, the eponymous 2025 movie will star Sydney Sweeney, Paul Feig, Brandon Skelnar, and Amanda Seyfried. The Housemaid tells the story of a woman struggling to make a fresh start, who discovers the dangerous secrets of her well-to-do bosses for whom she is a housemaid.
People We Meet On Vacation
Coming to Netflix in 2025 is People We Meet On Vacation, originally written by Emily Henry (author of Beach Read). Starring Tom Blyth and Emily Bader, People We Meet On Vacation follows the story of a free-spirited Poppy and a routine-loving Alex, who discover there may be more to decades-old friendship than meets the eye, while on vacation.
Klara And The Sun
The eighth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara And The Sun (2021) tells the story of Klara, an artificial friend that's powered by the sun. One day, she's taken home by Josie, a sickly child, and even befriends Josie's friend, Rick.
This dystopian sci-fi flick is set to star Jenny Ortega and Amy Adams, and is slated for release in 2025.
Marked Men
Based on the novel Rule: A Marked Men Novel (2023) by Jay Crownover, this romantic movie starring Chase Stokes and Sydney Taylor tells the classic tale of unrequited love, a monumental mistake, and two people who couldn't be more different, figuring out how to make their love for one another work. Marked Men (2025) is scheduled to be released in mid-2025.
Wicked: Part Two
Wicked: Part Two (2025) is the upcoming sequel to Wicked (2024), which is based on the novel Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West (1995) by Gregory Maguire. Wicked: Part Two stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as Elphaba and Glinda respectively, as each struggles to embrace their new identities as the Wicked Witch Of The West and Glinda The Good Witch Of The North.
The Worst Book-To-Movie Bomb At The Box Office
Billy Bathgate may not be a movie you've heard of—you may not even have heard of the book either. But Billy Bathgate (1989) is a novel by EL Doctorow that offers an exculpatory glance into the life of New York City mobsters, as a 15-year-old high-school dropout becomes the target of their recruitment and extortion. Despite winning the National Book Critics Circle Award and being a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize that year, the eponymous 1991 adaptation starring Nicole Kidman, Dustin Hoffman, and Bruce Willis only made $15.5 million at the box office, despite costing $48.8 million to produce.
Touchstone, Billy Bathgate (1991)
