Books into Movies for 2011

Read the book BEFORE you see the movie. Here's a list of some films based on books slated to open in 2011:

Barney's Version (January 2011) is based on Barney's Version by Mordecai Richter (1997). Sixty-seven-year-old Barney has led a rich and notorious life, but the years have taken their toll, and so, before his memories fail him, he decides to set down his side of the story.

The Way Back (January 2011) is based on the memoir, The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slawomir Rawicz (1955). This book describes the 4,000 mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp.

From Prada to Nada (January 2011) is a loosely-based Latina comedy spin on Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811). Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that they can get along only through compromise of their mutual differences.

The Rite (January 2011) is based on The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist by journalist Matt Baglio (2009). This book portrays the phenomenon of demonic possession, the history, rites, and rituals of exorcism, and one man's path toward a terrifying and perplexing world which transforms him from a skeptical apprentice to a practicing exorcist.

The Eagle (February 2011) is based on The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Suttcliff (1954). A young centurion ventures among hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.

Desert Flower (March 2011) is based on the autobiography by Somali model Waris Dirie entitled Desert Flower: the Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad (1998). The author describes growing up in a traditional Somali family and her fulfillment as a humanitarian.

Water for Elephants (April 2011) is an adaptation of Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (2006).
Ninety-plus-year-old Jacob remembers his time in the circus a a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant who gave them hope.

The Lincoln Lawyer (March 2011) is based on The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (2005).
Representing some unsavory characters in his work a a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.

I Am Number Four (February 2011) is based on I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (2010).
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a 15-year-old who has hidden on Earth for 10 years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorins who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

What's Your Number? (September 2011) is based on the romantic novel 20 Times a Lady by Karyn Bosnak (2006). After a drunken orgy with her disgusting ex-boss, who had fired her the day before, 29-year-old Delilah Darling, obsessed with the fact that she has had sex, with her personal limit of twenty men during her life, is faced with a future lifetime of celibacy, unless she can track down one of the men she has slept with and make it work with one of them.