7 Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Look Forward to This June

What would a year be with at least one (if not many) Stephen King adaptations hitting our screens? Heading to theaters at the beginning of June is The Life of Chuck, a film based on King’s 2020 novella of the same name. And it’s directed by Mike Flanagan, who really seems to love his Stephen King adaptations. He also directed Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep. Tom Hiddleston stars as Chuck. The film also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, Mark Hamill, and Jacob Tremblay. It hits select theaters on June 6 and will be everywhere on June 13.

The Survivors is a limited series based on Jane Harper’s novel of the same name. It follows a mystery set in a small Australian seaside town called Evelyn Bay. Charlie Vickers stars as Kieran Elliott, a man who returns to Evelyn Bay fifteen years after the shocking death of three people close to him. When another woman is murdered in the present, the community is desperate for answers. Yerin Ha also stars. All six episodes of the series will be available to stream on Netflix.

How to Train Your Dragon heads back to theaters, this time as a live-action feature film. The new film is written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who also directed the animated films. Mason Thames stars as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, and Nico Parker will take on the role of Hiccup’s love interest, Astrid Hofferson. Gerard Butler will reprise his role as Stoick the Vast. The film will be based on the novel How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. A sequel is already planned for release on June 11, 2027.

We reported on all the We Were Liars news back in February, but this highly-anticipated adaptation of E. Lockhart’s BookTok-famous novel is finally coming out this month. In this psychological thriller, Emily Alyn Lind plays Cadence Sinclair Eastman, a teen girl who’s trying to piece together the memories from the summer when she was fifteen years old. The series also stars Caitlin Fitzgerald, Rahul Kohli, Candice King, Esther McGregor, Shubham Maheshwari, and Joseph Zada. All eight episodes of the show will premiere on Prime on June 18.

Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers, a drama inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel of the same name, is returning for a second season this month. The Buccaneers—Kristine Frøseth as Nan St. George, Alisha Boe as Conchita Closson, Aubri Ibrag as Lizzy Elmsworth, Josie Totah as Mabel Elmsworth, and Imogen Waterhouse as Jinny St. George—are a group of young American girls who move to London in the 1870s. The first episode of the eight-episode season will drop on June 18, with subsequent episodes releasing every week until August 6.

Marvel fans have been waiting for this one! Ironheart follows MIT student and genius inventor Riri Williams, also known as Ironheart. You’ve seen this character before in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and now she’s getting her own series on Disney+. Dominique Thorne reprises her role as Riri Williams in the upcoming series. Cast also includes Anthony Ramos, Alden Ehrenreich, Anji White, Lyric Ross, Jim Rash, Matthew Elam, and Sacha Baron Cohen.

If this title seems familiar to you, it’s because a Korean version of this story was released in 2024. Now, the Japanese adaptation of the NAVER web novel is coming to Prime at the end of this month. Note that this is a different adaptation, not a remake of the Korean series, so don’t expect to see the exact same characters or plot points. The series stars Takeru Satō and Fūka Koshiba and tells the story of a wallflower named Misa whose husband’s betrayal with her best friend leads to her tragic death. Then Misa is suddenly transported ten years into the past, and she sees her opportunity to seek out revenge.