It’s fall festival season, and a whole new batch of literary-minded films will hit screens over the rest of the year. Since first-screen films at festivals like Telluride, Venice, Toronto, and New York are the ones that fill the lists of award nominations a few months later, the festivals provide an early peek at the films that will be front and center at the Oscars and film critics. Awards and all other festivals of fame at the end of the year.
But there’s a way to learn about many of these works even before they premiere at festivals and come to live broadcasts or movie screens: learn about the books they’re based on. These titles won’t win an original screenplay award, but there are at least eight adaptations of notable literary works coming this year worth diving into. If your reading time is short, why not try listening to an audiobook while you’re on the go, walking, on the road, or doing chores?
From Joyce Carol Oates’ look at Marilyn Monroe in “Blond” to Lena Dunham’s adaptation of Catherine the Great’s story “Catherine Cold Birdie” to Luca Guadinino’s modern cannibal tale “Bones & All,” here are eight audiobooks to prepare for the fall and winter films.
Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star in Camille de Angelis’ horror novel, which is set to hit theaters on November 23. Russell plays a young woman who leaves home trying to find her father and meets a tramp while both long for acceptance from an unwelcome world.
The latest “Mad Max” film by George Miller is based on the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt. Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba star in the fantasy romance between Academy and Genie, which opens in theaters August 31.
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Director Andrew Dominic adapted Joyce Carol Oates’ novel about the charming star, starring Ana de Armas as the onscreen idol. Oates described an early clip of the film, which depicts aspects of her life, as “wonderful” and “extremely disturbing” and is set to carry a rare NC-17 rating when it premieres on Netflix on September 23. Audiobook now and be prepared for what is sure to be a controversial release.
A locked-down cop in 1950s England becomes embroiled in a complex love triangle in Bethan Roberts’ novel, adapted for the screen starring Harry Styles and Emma Corinne. “My Policeeman” premieres October 21 in theaters before the release of Amazon Prime Video on November 4.
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The non-fiction book chronicles the New York Times’ groundbreaking investigation that led to the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the birth of the #MeToo movement, with decades of sexual abuse emerging in the workplace. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan play the two reporters who have worked for years on the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation in this dramatization in the style of “spotlight.”
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the award-winning novel Don DeLillo. It’s the story of a couple with four children navigating family life as a catastrophic train accident floods their city in chemical waste – an ‘airborne toxic event’. The film plays the Venice and New York Film Festivals ahead of its Netflix premiere later in the fall.
This best-selling Swedish film was made into a movie starring Tom Hanks and renamed “A Man Called Otto”. Hanks will play the villainous man who looks like the man of the neighborhood, but begins to open up to other humans after a couple with two young daughters moves into the house next door. Hear Frederic Backman’s novel on audiobook for a taste of his humor before the December release of Mark Forster’s movie.
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After Will Andrews dropped out of Harvard in the 1870s, he headed west to Butcher Crossing, Kansas, where he met a man who convinced him to join him on a buffalo-hunting expedition. Nicholas Cage, Xander Berkeley, and Rachel Keeler star in Gabe Polsky’s adaptation of the Western novel by John Williams. No release has been set yet, so audiences may need to wait until 2023 for the film to be released.
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A 14-year-old girl narrates this historical fiction book in the form of a diary about her life in the year 1200. She dreams of going to fight in the Crusades, although she expects to keep the house and marry a rich man. Directed by Lena Dunham, the film stars Bella Ramsey as Lady Catherine. The movie starts on October 7.
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