There is nothing new in that audiovisuals draw directly from literature as a source of inspiration for their projects.

To show films such as

The Godfather, American Psycho, Gone with the Wind

or

The Lord of the Rings

and series such as

Game of Thrones, The Wire

or

Chernobyl.

All top works in their categories.

Now the television overproduction has triggered that the platforms are forced to dive into the catalogs of the publishers

in search of contemporary novels

that inspire their scripts.

National and international literary successes have a life beyond their pages because they have found refuge on the screen.

Without going any further, last Tuesday, Atresplayer Premium presented its new projects for this season.

Among them two literary successes:

The Age of Wrath

and

The Gypsy Bride

.

A young adult novel recommended by most of the Spanish high school classes and a foray into the gypsy world through a thriller.

The Age of Wrath,

finalist for the Nadal Prize in 2010, catapulted

Nando López,

who will leave the adaptation of his novel in the hands of Atresmedia, Mediapro Studio and Másficción with Lucía Carballal and Juanma Ruiz de Córdoba as screenwriters.

For its part,

La novia gitana

, by

Carmen Mola

, which will start production immediately, will be one of the next premieres of the Atresmedia platform with Paco Cabezas in the direction and Diagonal TV in the production.

Carlo Padial, on the set of Doctor PortuondoFilmin

The trend is also repeated on international platforms. In its presentation of new content last week, Netflix included two other fictions with a literary aftertaste:

The Innocent

and

The Neighbor

.

In the case of the latter, the platform will premiere on May 23 the second season of the series based on the homonymous comic by Santiago García with Quim Gutiérrez, Clara Lago and Fran Perea as protagonists.

Before, the Spanish adaptation of

El Inocente

with Oriol Paulo behind the cameras and José Coronado, Mario Casas, Alexandra Jiménez and Aura Garrido leading the cast

will arrive in the audiovisual giant's catalog

.

A new adaptation of

Harlan Coben's

literature

by Netflix that in 2020 already premiered

The Stranger

or

The Woods.

Two of the great releases of the year for Amazon Prime also land from the publishing world.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation

The Underground Railroad

,

from

Colson Whitehead

will arrive on May 14 with

Moonlight

director

Barry Jenkins

captaining this ten-episode historical drama. And two weeks later, on May 28,

Panic

,

based on

The New York Times

best-selling book

by

Lauren Oliver

, will also headline the series.

The same platform had already immersed itself, together with Atresmedia Studios, in the Spanish literary catalogs for the premiere of one of the national blockbusters:

La tempelanza

.

In an interview with EL MUNDO, its author,

María Dueñas

, already warned of this literary transfer to the audiovisual world.

"Now the potential of novels is to become a series or a production. I am going to publish one and people are already waiting for what is going to happen with the adaptation and it is not even in the bookstores", affirmed who already knew the success television with

The time between seams.

Cast of Big Little Lies, starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman HBO

The literary trend has also found accommodation on HBO and Disney +.

The

Handmaid's

Tale

,

inspired by

Margaret Atwood's

novel

, premieres its fourth season on April 28, becoming one of HBO's big bets in recent years and

Black Narcissus

, with

Rumer Godden's

hit novel

as sustenance, ends landing in the Spanish Disney + catalog.

Even Filmin, already working on its first original series with its sights set on next fall, has set its sights on the literary world.

Doctor Portuondo

will be the first production of the Catalan platform with

Carlo Padial

, writer of the novel published by Blackie Books, telling his own psychoanalytic story.

And far from declining the literary options for the series of the future, the payroll continues to increase nationally and internationally.

In the Spanish field, Boomerang TV has acquired the rights of

frozen heart

,

of

Almudena Grandes

;

Secuoya has those of the

Henar Álvarez

comic

,

La mala leche

,

Vértica 360 has those of

Love, curiosity, prozac and doubts

,

by

Lucía Etxebarría

;

the novel

Simón

, by

Miqui Otero

, will have its television version directed by María Ripoll, and the version of

Nada

, by

Carmen Laforet will

continue on the air

, which was to be directed by Paula Ortiz.

Outside our borders, the trend is similar with Hulu already immersed with Reese Witherspoon in the adaptation of

Nine Perfect Strangers

,

the novel by

Liane Moriarty

, author of

Big Little Lies

.

Also

Sally Rooney

, after the success of adapting

Normal People,

will once again have her series with

Conversations between friends

scheduled for 2022.

In future projects Netflix and Amazon are also adaptations

Anatomy of a scandal

of

Sarah Vaughan

and

all want to Daisy Jones

of

Taylor Jenkins Reid

respectively.

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