Books into film and television

K-19

From the book K-19 by Peter Huchthausen

K2

From the play K2 by Patrick Meyers

Kaitangata Twitch

Margaret Mahy’s 2005 novel is set in a small South Island coastal village and the television version was commissioned by Māori TV and will be screened in 2010. Yvonne Mackay directs and filming was done in the Governor’s Bay area. The production has been planned for a 13 episode series and the Māori content has been increased. The major child character, Meredith, is played by Te Waimarie Kessell who is the niece of the well known Kiwi actress Simone Kessell. Her mother is played by Miriama Smith, her father by Charles Mesure and her sister by Kerry-Lee Dewing. George Henare plays the mysterious old man Lee Kaa.
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Karaoke

TV play Karaoke by Dennis Potter

Kes

From the 1968 novel A Kestrel for a knave by Barry Hines

Key Largo

From the play Key Largo by Maxwell Anderson

The Keys to Tulsa

From the 1989 novel The Keys to Tulsa by Brian Fair Berkey

Kid Galahad

From the 1936 novel Kid Galahad by Francis Wallace

A Kid in King Arthur’s court

From the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court by Mark Twain

The Kid stays in the picture

From the 1994 book The Kid stays in the picture by Robert Evans

Kidnapped

From the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Killer: a journal of murder

From the 1970 book Killer: a journal of murder by Thomas Gaddis and James O. Long

The killer inside me

The 1952 pulp fiction classic by Jim Thompson is one of his most downbeat titles and it was made into a film with Stacy Keach as the small town deputy who seems like the quintessential ordinary guy but is actually psychotic. The new version is directed by the prolific British director Michael Winterbottom and features Casey Affleck in the lead role, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Bill Pullman, Liam Aiken, Ned Beatty and Elias Koteas.
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Killer Net

Written by Lynda La Plante but she doesn't appear to have put it into book form

Killing Mr Griffin

From the 1978 novel Killing Mr Griffin by Lois Duncan

Killshot

A married couple are in a real estate office when a pair of criminals walk in bent on extortion. The couple see too much for their own good, the local police can’t do much to help them from the villains on their trail, and they are on the run. It’s a typically taut Elmore Leonard tale, published 1989. Leonard is one of the contemporary crime writers who has had most of his work adapted for film and this one has promise as it is directed by English director John Madden with a cast headed by Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Mickey Rourke and Justin Timberlake.
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Kind hearts and coronets

From the 1907 novel Israel rank by Roy Horniman

A Kind of loving

From the 1960 novel A Kind of loving by Stan Barstow

The King and I

From the musical play The King and I by Rodgers and Hammerstein which was based on Margaret Landon’s 1944 book Anna and the King of Siam

King Creole

From the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins

King of the hill

From the 1972 novel King of the hill by A. E. Hotchner

King Ralph

From the 1980 novel Headlong by Emlyn Williams

King Solomon’s mines

From the novel King Solomon’s mines by Henry Rider Haggard

Kiss of a killer

From the 1978 novel The Point of murder by Margaret Yorke

Kiss the girls

From the novel Kiss the girls by James Patterson

Kissed

From the short story We so seldom look on love by Barbara Gowdy. In her collection of the same name

Kissing the gunner’s daughter

From the novel Kissing the gunner’s daughter by Ruth Rendell

The kite runner

Khaled Hosseini’s2003 novel was one of the biggest surprise bestsellers of recent years. The novel is about an Afghan man who returns to his homeland to search for his brother and finds that his memories of an idyllic childhood have been lost under the iron rule of the Taliban. Novelist David Benioff has adapted the novel for the screen and Marc Forster, who made Finding Neverland and Monster’s ball, is directing. The cast is lead by Said Taghoui, Jonathan Ahdout (as the younger version of Amir),Shaun Toub and Nasser Memarzia.
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The Knack

From the 1961 play The Knack by Ann Jellicoe

Korea, the unknown war

Tie-in book by Jon Halliday

K-Pax

From the 1995 novel K-Pax by Gene Brewer

Krippendorf’s tribe

From the novel Krippendorf’s tribe by Frank Parkin

Kunta Kinte’s Gift

TV sequel to Roots. Not based on a particular book