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How I Feel About YA Books to Movie Adaptations

in on 07/24/13 by Beth 17 Comments

Hunger Games. Divergent. The Mortal Instruments. Beautiful Creatures. The Fault in Our Stars. The Spectacular Now. If I Stay. The Host. Ender’s Game. Percy Jackson. The Maze Runner. Jellicoe Road.

*sigh* I am getting weary. There are so many wonderful, amazing, awesome, stupendous YA books being made into movies lately that I can’t stay excited for ALL of them. Some of them make me more nervous than others (Jonah Griggs, please be out there somewhere), but one thing is for sure: I’m destined to go through this process each time one is announced.

 

When I first read the book:

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When I heard they were making a movie:

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When a director is announced:

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When the director teases on twitter that it’s time to start casting:

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When the lead characters are cast:

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When the supporting cast is announced:

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Unless it’s Finnick:

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When people start shipping the actors IRL:

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When production stills start rolling out:

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When the first trailer comes out:

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When the second trailer comes out:

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When someone sends me links to the TV Spots that start coming out:

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When new fans start arguing with me online:

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When the movie fan page gets 1.5 million likes on Facebook, and the author still has 7500:

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When the premiere date is announced:

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When my friends are making plans for the midnight showing:

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When I go to the midnight show anyway:

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When it comes out on DVD:

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When it’s time for them to film the sequel:

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 How do you feel about all these YA Books to Movie adaptations? 

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About Beth

Current Obsessions: Fantasy novels. John Krasinski. Melina Marchetta. Edinburgh. Captive Prince and Yuri on Ice. James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. New words. Gay wizard regency novels.

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