The Beach (novel) only day-dream about". "The Beach" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by "The Secret Circle" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) Described as "the first black nationalist novel", "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" is also regarded as having inspired the "Blaxploitation" genre of films in the 1970s. It was announced in August 2018 that Lee Daniels Entertainment had secured an option on "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" to develop it as the basis of a series with Fox 21 Television Studios. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (novel) The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee, is the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first black CIA officer, and of the CIA's history