This is the bookwrap podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Schinsky. And today we're taking a look back at the adaptations of 2024 books that got turned into film or TV, various kinds, both in the meta sense, like what mattered. We might take a look at the, maybe we'll talk for a minute about the kind of state

of adaptations. I think it's fair to say that I finally called peak adaptation. I got it right.

It took me six years, but we finally hit it. But there's a lot out there, Rebecca, don't you think?

I do think so. Like, this was an interesting year. And as we get into our favorites and the highlights

a little bit later,

I discover that most of the things that I really enjoyed on screen were not necessarily from like big books or from books that were my favorites, but that made for great television

or great movies. And that's not a brand new phenomenon, but when we, when we started

cresting Mount Adaptation a couple of years ago, it was really like the big hot properties

and the stuff that like you loved reading and you couldn't wait to see it on screen. And since

the streamers have all gotten through most of the big hot properties at this point, we're farther

into backlist. And I think that makes it

more interesting in like seven different directions. Yeah. I'd say it's interesting. There were

quite a few big hit movies on this list in writ large. Like it was a fairly good year at the box

office all things. Now, we're not going to do comic book adaptation on the show. We don't really cover

comics. But Deadpool and Wolverine was a huge hit for Disney.

Moana, too. Sorry, there was another one.

I just lost it.

Anyway, it doesn't matter.

Inside Out, too.

So there was a bunch.

There's like kids and things, but that's not an adaptation.

Yeah.

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