Every Canceled Film Adaptation Of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Explained

Though Donna Tartt’s novel is a bestseller, The Secret History has yet to be adapted to the screen after a handful of failed attempts to bring her book to life. Initially released in 1992, The Secret History is Tartt’s first novel and follows students at a prestigious school who are encouraged by an eccentric professor to live outside the bounds of common morality–eventually murdering a classmate. The book was praised upon release and launched Tartt’s career as a bona fide bestselling author, but it found new life in the 21st century as one of the crowning jewels of the so-called #BookTok section of the social media platform TikTok.