I always get a bit sad when a book I’ve been meaning to buy gets turned into a movie and I end up having to buy the book with a new slick, uncreative movie cover art on it. When I buy a book I really like it to stand on it’s own as a work of not only literary art but also visual art. All too often the movie cover of a book is nothing more than an advertisement. Which cover below is your favorite? Unless you’re a huge Julianne Moore fan my guess would be not the third one…

I was excited then to see the work being done on Steve Lopez’s The Soloist. The book has been turned into a movie and with that comes new movie cover art for Lopez’s inspiring and popular story and I am happy to say that change is good one! The cover is based on the artwork below and a smaller version of the book cover can be seen after the jump.

In a nice change of pace, you see he big stars (what most book into movie cover art does) but you also get a sense about the story you are about to read - which is no doubt a bit different than the movie (they’re different mediums of course).

It’s also pretty great because The Soloist is a Participant film! And now I’m even more excited to see it.

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