From Page to Screen: A Dog's Journey, The Sun is Also a Star and John Wick vol #1

I love watching movies and TV shows but I feel like with so many based on books, the original source material is often forgotten or hardly promoted. Which is why I'm starting this new post Books to Film and TV as a way to focus on or promote the books that have inspired or are tied-in to the movies and TV shows.

This weekend there are three new movies that are either based on a book or is a media tie-in: A Dog's Journey, The Sun is Also a Star and John Wick.


Movies Based on a Book

Book: A Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron

Description:

The follow-up to A Dog's Purpose, which followed the soulful story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.

After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into dangerous mischief, he is certain that this little girl is very much in need of a dog of her own.

When Buddy is reborn, he realizes that he has a new destiny. He's overjoyed when he is adopted by Clarity, now a vibrant but troubled teenager. When they are suddenly separated, Buddy despairs—who will take care of his girl?

Book: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Description:

Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.

Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.

The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?





Media Tie-In

Book: John Wick volume #1 by Greg Pak with illustrations by Giovanni Valletta

Description:

When a young John Wick embarks upon an epic vendetta, he comes up against a strange, powerful community of assassins and must learn how to master the rules that guide their lethal business. What are the Three Bills? Who is Calamity? And why is John Wick seeking vengeance?