Highlighted Titles for Adaptation in 2023
The books featured below have strong potential for adaptation in the areas listed in parentheses beside them. We are featuring these titles during the 2023 Literary and Film Industry season.
Fiction.
Murder Insured (Film/Television).
Murder Insured by J. Stephen Reid (2023). Corporate-owned life insurance policies, colloquially termed "Dead Peasants Insurance", are policies in which upon the death of the insured employee, the corporation is the beneficiary of the policy. This exciting murder mystery authored by a retired insurance executive who, during his working life, penned Wall Street Journal articles on corporate owned policies, poses the question: what if a large bank, were to use a hitman to kill its insured executives in manner made to appear as an accident, in order to replace revenues lost during economically challenging years?
The Incomplete Sorcerer (Game/Film/Animation).
The Incomplete Sorcerer by Brian Ardel (2017). A young, untrained magician desperately tries to save his love and the realm by defeating an evil master sorcerer, all while using a spell book missing the most important parts of each spell.
The Womb Rebellion (Film/Television).
The Womb Rebellion by p.w. long (2017). Based on true historical accounts, young Ruby leads a community of enslaved women in fomenting a “Womb Rebellion” against a system in which women are exploited as producers and reproducers.
There’s Magic in the Moonlight (Animation).
There’s Magic in the Moonlight by Christine Ramondetta (2023). There's Magic in the Moonlight (2022). A young girl embarks on a magical adventure to the moon and the stars and learns about friendship, bravery, and the magic of dreams.
Fiction. Series by Wm Kane (Films).
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Memoir of a Time Yet to Come (2012) (New edition 2024).
Aaron copes with his dramatic metamorphosis from a typical young urban professional to a Soul Eater, the fierce and vicious immortals created by God to defend Heaven from the forces of Satan. Soul Eaters are answerable to no one, not even the God who created them.
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Last Things (2013).
With all of Creation on the verge of certain annihilation, the fate of humankind rests on the success of a small team of Adepts who have been recruited by the ultra secret PsyOps for a desperate mission to hold back the Forces of Darkness.
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The Last Pharaoh (2018).
While attending his morning briefing, the President receives an urgent call from the moonbase. An object has been found, one with a stunning similarity to the Great Pyramid. This object has a carving of a face on it, a face that looks like his own.
Non-Fiction.
Computing Reality (Documentary).
Computing Reality by M.A. Choudhury and M.S. Hossain (2023 Reprint). The emotional intelligence of the developers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology will determine if AI is a benefit or harm to humanity.
Envie de Maroc (Documentary).
Envie de Maroc by Jamal Belahrach (2025). Longing for Morocco is an autobiographical work of Franco Moroccan entrepreneur Jamal Belahrach. The child of immigrants who arrived in France without knowing why, he recounts his childhood, images of growing up, the confusion of adolescence, and the choices and commitments of being a man. He saw his life “as a chance to draw inspiration into his life from two national sources”. Jamal recounts the return home of childhood, its transformation, inequality, and improvements, and his work to promote social and economic progress in Morocco. He speaks as a bi- national, which was the impetus behind his return to Morocco.
Praying for Darkness (Television).
Praying for Darkness (2023). A young psychologist grapples with the consequences of severe child abuse, when encountering two women remembering horrific accounts from devil worshiping cults. The doctor is amazed to learn that the women hail from different states, but tell similar stories of incest, child sacrifice and cannibalism. Both, he soon learns, have created alter personalities to help them carry and contain the horrific memories and concomitant feelings from the abuse. Along the way, he gains an ally, in a government agent who validates the women’s stories and existence of the cult. All parties are challenged to face their fears in an effort to survive and heal.