The New Book-to-Movie-and-TV Adaptations Coming in 2025

Journalist Kate Andersen Brower has published a couple of books about the White House, and Shondaland has sunk their teeth into this one. Created by Paul William Davies, "The Residence," coming to Netflix March 20, will be a 9-episode comedy series starring Uzo Aduba and Randall Park about a fictional murder that occurs in the White House and how the West Wing staff handles the fallout.

The dystopian sci-fi "Klara and the Sun" is narrated by Klara, a solar-powered Artificial Friend (AF) of sickly Josie. This year, Taika Waititi will direct Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams and Aran Murphy (son of Cillian!) in a feature film based on this devastating novel.

CoHo fans will continue to be fed now that "It Ends With Us," despite scandal and lawsuits among its cast, has seen the light of day. In "Regretting You," Morgan and her 16-year-old daughter Clara are constantly butting heads, only finding common ground with the help of husband and father Chris. But everything begins to unravel when Chris is found the victim of a terrible accident. TBH, I'll have to read this one just because Dave Franco has been cast in the Paramount-optioned film.

If this wasn't required reading in high school, Orwell's "1984" was, so either way you're familiar with the dystopias he can spin. This will be the third adaptation of "Animal Farm," this one a comedy-drama directed by Andy Serkis and written by Nicholas Stoller ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Neighbors") about the group of sentient farm animals who begin to rebel against their state of affairs.

"The Housemaid" went absolutely viral for its story of Millie, who goes to work for Nina and Andrew as a — you guessed it — housemaid and finds herself in precarious circumstances. The film version was gobbled up by Netflix and has begun production with a cast starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and (speaking of "It Ends With Us") Brandon Sklenar.

David Koepp is a well-known screenwriter, known for some of the most popular films out there — "Jurassic Park," "Mission: Impossible," and "Spider-Man," to name a few. He's also a published author! So an adaptation of a book written by a famed screenwriter has to be good. In "Cold Storage," a Pentagon bioterror operative discovers a highly mutative organism and buries it for safety. But it finds its way out, so three unlikely allies must work together to literally save the world. The movie will obviously star Liam Neeson.

I'm sure by now you know that "Wicked" was a book before it was a Broadway show...before it was a film. And so was "The Wizard of Oz," while we're on the subject! ICYMI, part 2 of the movie musical, "Wicked: For Good" is already set for Nov. 21, 2025.

We've known and loved Bridget Jones for decades, and now Renée Zellweger is back with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Isla Fisher, Leo Woodall and more as the 50-something widowed Bridget now navigating single motherhood and a tryst with a younger man. Get your Peacock subscription ready for April 25!

The internet damn near broke when it was announced that Anne Hathaway was cast as the titular character in the adaptation of this Colleen Hoover novel. In the psychological thriller, a writer begins working for Verity's family after they're befallen by tragedy. But something's not quite right with the whole situation. Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett will round out the cast.

BookTokers' dreams have been answered: An Emily Henry movie is on the horizon! All five of the romance novels from Henry's bibliography have already been auctioned, but "People We Meet on Vacation" is the first with a full cast — which is gorgeous, BTW (Tom Blyth, Emily Bader, Lucien Laviscount, Lukas Gage, need I go on?).