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Why The Movie Industry Is Turning To Books For Its Biggest Productions

The Percy Jackson series was adapted into movies, which left the fans both heartbroken and furious. Years later with the rise of OTT platforms, Disney and author, Rick Riordan has joined forces to adapt it into a television series. This is not the first – where books were adapted into a web series/movie. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before was such a successful Netflix adaptation, that the second book was also adapted into one, and the third is in the works.

The Kissing Booth of Wattpad fame was also adapted into a Netflix movie. It proved to be so successful that a sequel is also released!

- So why do creators turn to books for their biggest production?

Book to screen transformations has been on the ascent. You could contend that it began with TV shows picking to put together their new stories with respect to books –, for example, The Vampire Diaries had not one but rather two effective side projects – The Originals and Legacies. Both phenomenal variations dependent on characters made by a publishing house and contracted to author L.J. Smith.

While adjusting books into films has been around for a very long time, network shows or even web arrangement is another domain impressively. Netflix has been known to alternative books to adjust to the arrangement. Amazon Prime has a devoted segment where arrangements and movies dependent on books are recorded. The latest famous transformation of Prime has been Neil Gaiman's Good Omens. He had recently experienced accomplishment with the variation of American Gods, spilling on both Netflix and Amazon Prime.

When it comes to streaming giant Netflix, the list of books to series is endless: starting with Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Adventures, Lucifer (based on the character created by Neil Gaiman), Shadow Hunters, Anne with an E, 13 Reasons Why, and closer to home, Selection Day and Sacred Games.

- The average turnover by book-to-screen adaptations

But what motivates these adaptations? One explanation could be the turnover. Book to screen transformations are not without a considerable amount of benefits. Indeed, a report distributed by Forbes uncovered that book-to-screen transformations procure 53% more income than unique screenplays. The hypothesis is that there is now a prepared crowd who have known about the book and can't stand by to see it on screen. Or on the other hand, crowds find out about the transformation and purchase the source material. A renowned case of such is The Handmaid's Tale pushed deals of the book, as did the novel, My Cousin Rachel. Distributors' affiliations don't have a strong response to why books to screen variations work better. Everything they can offer is an informed conjecture, which is: crowds like to watch arrangement/motion pictures that were at that point scholarly properties in their own right.

According to Business Insider, the Harry Potter Series grossed $7.7 Billion in the box office. The books, themselves, sold over 500 million copies! A popular book to TV adaptation series, Game of Thrones, grossed $1 Billion – with 30 million users per episode, reported Stash Invest and Finance Monthly. The series became so popular that began to generate a revenue of $88 million per episode during season 8 – their last season.

But of course, these predictions were made before we found ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic.

However, if anything can be taken away from it, is the learning that OTT platforms are here to stay! With Artemis Fowl deciding to go for a global premiere on Disney Hotstar. Bollywood’s adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars, Dil Bechara, is also slated to release on the OTT platform – and will be made available to both the subscribers and non-subscribers of the platform.

- The Curious Case of Bollywood

In Bollywood, seemingly Chetan Bhagat began the pattern of transforming books into films with Five Point Someone adjusted into 3 Idiots, and later, 3 Mistakes of my Life was its Bollywood debut as Kai Po Che. Further down in the East – Bangla movie pictures have drawn motivation from darling books by Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Parineeta was a transformation of the Bangla short story of a similar name by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Yet, this despite everything makes one wonder for what reason do movie producers go-to books as source material for their movies or potentially arrangement? The appropriate response is by all accounts straightforward: the books would previously carry with it an inherent crowd. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars was a blockbuster hit since perusers were at that point standing by excitedly for its delivery. A similar contention can be made for Calling Sehmat that was the honor winning Raazi.

With Raazi, not only did we get to learn an epic tale but we also saw an empowered woman leading the way. Which brings us to why Reese Witherspoon got her company to look at books as source material in the first place. She says she and her daughter realized in every movie she starred in, there is a moment when she looked at her male lead and asked, “What do we do now?” She says in hindsight, it’s downright ridiculous and women have always been able to figure out their way despite the terrible situations they have found themselves in. She was, therefore, looking for women-drive and women-authored novels. Her company ended up producing Big Little Lies and Little Fire Everywhere – both based on books and both written by women! The ratings proved what a success both of these shows have been.

- The Endgame

In this day and age, there is not only a steady source of content but also a number of channels available by means of which these content could be shared. Now, more than ever, good stories are being told. Both books from yesteryears and contemporary times are being made into web series or films. And the OTT platforms have proved that there indeed is something for everyone – the large-scale movie industry is certainly following their lead.