The release date in many cases is still up in the air and some filming is late, omicron through, but there is no doubt that 2022 will perpetuate the fruitful idyll that the audiovisual medium maintains with literature. The new vintage will bring to the screens this year the series adaptation of the novel by Almudena Grandes
The patients of doctor García
(co-production of RTVE, Diagonal TV and DeAplaneta with the participation of Netflix), the fourth installment of the works that the writer dedicated to the Civil War and the postwar period. Also in 2022, the version of
Easy Reading will be released,
the novel with which Cristina Morales won the National Narrative Award and which is directed by Anna Rodríguez Costa. The classic
Nothing,
by Carmen Laforet, with a screenplay by Elvira Lindo, and the film
Los renglones torcidos de Dios,
based on the novel by Torcuato Luca de Tena, directed by Oriol Paulo and starring Bárbara Lennie, are added to the list, providing a
vintage
tone .
The Gypsy Bride
, the literary debut of Carmen Mola, a pseudonym behind which are the screenwriters Antonio Mercero, Jorge Díaz and Agustín Martínez, winners of the last Planeta award, and
The Red Queen,
by Juan Gómez Jurado, will be two of the
best-sellers
that they will jump off the page.
Rainbow,
a free version of the classic
The Wizard of Oz,
directed by Paco León, will also be released in 2022.
Cover of 'The patients of doctor García', by Almudena Grandes.Tusquets
Beyond literature in Spanish, the premieres of literary adaptations are many and diverse.
New Yorker Noah Baumbach directs Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver in the film version of
Background Noise
, Don DeLillo's great novel.
The successful Irish writer Sally Rooney, who already triumphed with the adaptation of
Normal People
,
returns to the small screen with the series inspired by her novel
Conversations with Friends,
which will include actress Jemima Kirke, among others.
A millionaire budget supports the series
The Lord of the Rings
,
produced by Amazon and whose first two episodes are directed by JA Bayona.
House of the Dragon
is another of the year's big releases, the first of four planned
Game of Thrones
prequels , based on the novel
Fire and Blood
by George RR Martin.
Sketch by Gris Grimly and Guillermo del Toro for their adaptation of 'Pinocchio'.GRIMLY GRIS
The new versions of classics that have already been adapted seem to be another of the rising trends, for example with
Brideshead Revisited,
the novel by Evelyn Waugh that served as the basis for a memorable series, and that now Luca Guadagnino dares to revisit, with a cast that includes Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes. The adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel
Death on the Nile
will also be released , with Kenneth Branagh again as Detective Poirot. Patricia Highsmith, whose diaries will be published in 2022, returns to the screens twice. His novel
Deep Waters
will be directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Ben Afleck and Ana de Armas, while the
Ripley series
It will star Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning.
There will also be in 2022, in what already seems almost a tradition, a version of a work by Jane Austen, in this case the novel
Persuasion,
which will star Dakota Johnson.
And everything indicates that this will also be the year in which
Guillermo del Toro 's film
Pinnocchio is released.
Come, see and read.