Ten top literary adaptations coming to TV & film in 2025

Jalen Giovanni Jones is a Black and Filipino writer from Los Angeles, and is an editorial intern at Electric Literature. His work has been supported by the Tin House Workshop, the Lambda Literary Retreat, and ART PAPERS. Jalen’s work has won the David Madden MFA Award, and has been published by The Offing. He is the Assistant Editor of the New Delta Review, an MFA candidate in Louisiana State University’s Creative Writing Program, and is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.

At Electric Lit Jones tagged ten of the most anticipated literary adaptations coming to TV and film in 2025. One title on the list:

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

In Edward Ashton’s Mickey7, space colonist Mickey Barnes is an Expendable—meaning he is a disposable employee, sent on fatal missions that will likely end in death. But each time he dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. While on a mission to colonize Niflheim, misplaced assumptions lead to the accidental creation of two Mickeys at once. The novel’s film adaptation, Mickey17, is scheduled for a theatrical release by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 18. The science fiction black comedy was produced, written, and directed by Parasite-director Bong Joon-ho, and stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

Read about another novel on the list.

The Page 69 Test: Mickey7.

The Page 69 Test: Antimatter Blues.

--Marshal Zeringue