{"id":372525,"date":"2026-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=372525"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:00:26","slug":"haunting-adeline-movie-is-now-official-fans-are-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/haunting-adeline-movie-is-now-official-fans-are-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunting Adeline movie is now official: fans are split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H.D. Carlton confirmed on <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> on <strong>July 15, 2026<\/strong>, that <em>Haunting Adeline<\/em> is being adapted for film. It\u2019s the first unambiguous public sign that the project is actually moving. Beyond Carlton\u2019s post, though, there\u2019s nothing else out there yet: no studio, no producer, no director, no cast, no release date, and no word on the creative direction.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her announcement also points to a <strong>broader adaptation<\/strong> , one that covers the full <em>Cat and Mouse Duet<\/em>, <em>Haunting Adeline<\/em> and <em>Hunting Adeline<\/em>. Those books have become a dark romance phenomenon, pulling in more than 948,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/goodreads.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads<\/a> ratings, according to Goodreads, and generating the kind of buzz that keeps circulating through online book communities long after release week.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reaction, if the film goes forward, will probably look a lot like the reaction the books have always gotten. This story follows a writer who\u2019s targeted by a dangerous stalker, and it deals directly with <strong>stalking, sexual assault<\/strong>, kidnapping, and graphic violence.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That creates a <strong>narrow lane for any adaptation<\/strong>. A film that stays faithful to the books could draw serious backlash. One that tones everything down could lose the readers who turned the <em>Cat and Mouse Duet<\/em> into such a hit in the first place.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you keep up with dark romance, this is one to <strong>keep an eye on<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the moment, Carlton\u2019s announcement is the <strong>only place to track it<\/strong>. No studio, producer, director, cast, release date, or creative direction has been made public.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.D. Carlton confirmed on Instagram on July 15, 2026, that Haunting Adeline is being adapted for film. It\u2019s the first unambiguous public sign that the project is actually moving. Beyond Carlton\u2019s post, though, there\u2019s nothing else out there yet: no studio, no producer, no director, no cast, no release date, and no word on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/haunting-adeline-movie-is-now-official-fans-are-split\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Haunting Adeline movie is now official: fans are split&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9329,"featured_media":372524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-372525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372526,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372525\/revisions\/372526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372525"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=372525"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=372525"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=372525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}