As cinema feeds on literature, it can turn Peter Pan an admired hero, but also a horrible guy. Or it can make a conclave to choose the new Pope is a network of disturbing conspiracies. They are two cinematographic versions of two novels that the Spanish billboard still offers.
There are more. Next, on this day of the book, A list of 11 films that still exhibit movie theaters and that were previously paper and ink.
1- ‘Conclave’
The death of Pope Francis and the celebration in a few days of the Cardinals’ conclave of which his successor will have promoted the popularity of this film to heavenly dimensions, and that after its premiere enjoyed an estimated popularity and had eight nominations in the last Oscar.
The novel from which the film directed by Edward Berger and written by Peter Straughan is called the same and the author is the Englishman Robert Harris, former BBC journalist, now a worldwide successful novelist. Published ‘Conclave’ in 2017.
2- ‘Mickey 17’
Thus is titled the first film of the South Korean Bong Joon-Ho after ‘Parasites’. But it is not titled the novel from which it comes.
‘Mickey 7’ is the name of the book that the American Edward Ashton published in 2023 and that in Spain it has recently been edited, coinciding with the premiere of the feature film.
The story is the same, that of an explorer clone, played in the cinema by Robert Pattinson, which they replace again and again in a dangerous star mission to enrich a scientific study … until that clone decides that it does not want to die more, which is related to the numerical difference of the titles.
3- ‘Wolfgang (Extraordinario)’
The filmmaker Javier Ruiz Caldera has been in charge of the adaptation of the homonymous novel by Barcelona Laia Aguilar, Carlemany Prize for the Promotion of Reading in 2017.
Treat the story of a child with a very high intellectual coefficient that, following the death of his mother, must live with the father, whom he does not know, actor by profession and disorderly life.
The novel sold well and the film has been seen, and it is still seen, very much, not in vain chained several weeks on the box office podium.
4- ‘The monkey’
An eminence of universal literature as Stephen King wrote the story in which this terrifying film is inspired.
In 1980, in a magazine, the story of this writer who is, by the way, one of the most adapted to the cinema was published for the first time. ‘Account with me’, ‘The Glow’, ‘The Green Mile’, ‘Carrie’ or ‘Perpetual chain’ are some films based on his works.
5- ‘Snow White’
The Grimm brothers published this story in the early nineteenth century. The 1937 Disney adaptation recovered for planetary fame to these scholarly brothers, philologists and writers who were famous in life.
The new version, now with actors and actresses of flesh and bone and with very positive box office data in Spain, has returned to catapult the story.
6- ‘The footprint of evil’
Manuel Ríos San Martín is a filmmaker and novelist born in Madrid in 1965 who has done something more or less frequent: bring to the cinema a literary work written by him.
‘The footprint of evil’ is a police ‘thriller’ published in 2019. And since 2025 it is also a police ‘thriller’ in cinemas. The discovery of the body of a young woman in an archaeological site will introduce a tense police investigation.
7- ‘Lee’
Kate Winslet’s return to Spanish movie theaters occurred in this ‘biopic’ about photographer Lee Miller, who in the years of World War II decided to end a brilliant career as a model to be a graphic reporter.
The film is based on the biography that his son Antony Penrose wrote, entitled in Spanish ‘The lives of Lee Miller’.
8- ‘I’m still here’
Autobiography from Brazil. The writer and journalist Marcelo Rubens Paiva signed this title to remember the disappearance and murder of his father during the Brazilian dictatorship of the first of the 70s, and how the tragedy hit his mother Eunice hard.
Memories were published in 2015 and are not translated into Spanish. The Walter Salles cinema version has been a phenomenon in the Latin American country and Óscar for the best international film this year.
9- ‘Peter Pan. Nightmare in never’
The Scottish JM Barrie was a successful writer while he lived, although ‘Peter and Wendy’ is the one who has immortalized his name.
There have been many versions, that of Disney or Steven Spielberg, for example, but the one that can still be seen in rooms is radically different. To start, Peter Pan is the bad evil and bell there is from here testing drugs.
10- ‘A working man’
David yesterday and Sylvester Stallone are the authors of the script of this film based on a novel of the person responsible for some of Batman’s most prominent comics during the 90s, Chuck Dixon. The American wrote years ago ‘Levon’s Trade’, the story of a construction worker to which existence is complicated.
11- ‘The story of Jim’
He is not on sale in Spain ‘Le Roman de Jim’, the novel by the French writer Pierric Bailly on which ‘The story of Jim’ is based, that is, the story of a guy who develops with his best friend’s daughter a paternal relationship full of tenderness until the biological father appears.
