I guarantee it.Īs to #2: Hey, I know you loved the books, but we need a couple hundred thousand of your friends to love it, too. Because if Brad Pitt or Reese Witherspoon or Ryan Reynolds or Jennifer Lawrence read and love it, it’ll become a movie.

It’s not just about “It’s really good and would make a great movie!”Īs to #1: Well, look, if any of you out there are close personal friends with someone powerful in Hollywood, sure, go ahead and hand that person a copy of I Hunt Killers. The book is a mega-super-duper-bestseller, so Hollywood knows there’s a built-in audience for it, making it a risk worth taking.Someone very powerful really loves the book and insists on turning it into a film, or.Not everything that’s worthy will be chosen.Īnd in general, so far as I can tell, Hollywood decides to make a movie or a TV show from a book based on one of two factors: Thousands of books are published each year mere hundreds of movies are made. Here’s the deal: There are a ton of books that would make great TV or great movies. I get it, though - if you’ve read the books and you really, really liked them 1 then you’re sitting around going, “WTF, Hollywood? These books are perfect for (as one person wrote to me) ‘a television show or series of blockbuster movies.’ Get on it!” There’s no one to blame - things just don’t work out sometimes. And it boils down to the question at the top of this page.įor those of you new to the series, rest assured: It was attempted and it failed. Of late, I have noticed a certain topic coming up on social media.

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga