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As readers, we sometimes think the book is better, but after seeking out some of those long-awaited adaptations, we may want to reevaluate our position. Some of those videos you may have heard of; others are less known. But do not worry; You still have enough time to read the novels behind the videos before they hit theaters. . . if you start now.
Part comedy of manners, part dystopian thriller, Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel about two families forced to cohabit through an apocalypse perfectly captured the absurdity and tragedy of that year. The book became an instant bestseller, a National Book Award finalist, one of our most successful e-books of the fall, and one of former President Barack Obama’s summer favorites. Obama enjoyed the story so much that he personally provided notes on the film adaptation. Julia Roberts (who also stars as a fabricator in the film) and Ethan Hawke play wealthy Brooklyn pahirs who rent a lavish Airbnb on Long Island, hoping for an idyllic getaway with their two teenagers. Instead, someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night; Fleeing widespread power outages, the couple who owns the space (Myha’la and Mahershala Ali) will have to hide out with the family on vacation. As mistakes outside the home intensify, the social dynamics inside the house become strained. Surviving a crisis is one thing; living in a remodeled world is another. The film will screen in select theaters starting November 22, 2023 and will premiere on Netflix on December 8.
In 1985, Oprah made her acting debut as Sofia in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now, the two men have once again joined forces to pass on this timeless story to a new generation, co-producing an adaptation of the musical, which opened on Broadway in 2005, alongside Quincy Jones and Scott Sanders. “To reinvent cinema in this era is to reinvent a phenomenon,” Oprah says. And while we’d be predisposed to like the movie anyway (sorry, that’s true), the early trailers are certainly phenomenal. The new cast includes a host of Grammy-winning singers, plus Danielle Brooks, who reprises Oprah’s previous role from Sofia, Fantasia Barrino, who plays Celie, and H. E. R. Halle Bailey and Ciara bring even more sparkle to the cast, whether playing Nettie at other stages of her life. The movie will be released on Christmas Day 2023, which means finishing with your presents and ending up at the popcorn stand.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s best-selling novel gets the red carpet treatment with Anne Hathaway betting on one of the most delightfully deviant characters from the cult favorite author: Rebecca, a glamorous counselor newly hired at a juvenile correctional facility with her own twisted sense of justice. Set in a small New England town in the 1960s, the acclaimed literary mystery revolves around the budding friendship between Rebecca and Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie), the desperately lonely criminal secretary. Where Eileen is repressed by her gender, her father’s alcoholism, and her own dark, obsessive mind, Rebecca turns out to be self-controlled and impeccable. But Rebecca’s exterior hides secrets that Eileen couldn’t have imagined in her most violent fantasies, and soon the two women will be faced with a nightmare of their own making. The adaptation, which Moshfegh wrote in collaboration with her screenwriter husband, will be released in December via Neon.
Two of television’s most popular and soulful actors, Normal People’s Paul Mescal and Fleabag’s Andrew Scott, play hapless lovers in this supernatural roguyce loosely based on the bestselling novel Strangers via Taichi Yamada. Adam (Scott) is a screenwriter with a raw tragedy in his afterlife and a new guy in his life (a mustachioed Mescal). As their relationship intensifies, Adam suddenly visits his home from his formative years, where he discovers that nothing has replaced him but him; his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), who died in a car accident when Adam was a child, are frozen in time. This is the second adaptation of Yamada’s award-winning and widely translated novel, originally published in Japan in 1987. The first, The Disautomobilenates, was released in Japanese theaters in 1988 and featured far less queer roguyce and far more outright horror than the upcoming remake. , scheduled for release on December 22, 2023.
This is not an exercise. After 8 long years without a Hunger Games movie, we return to Panem. But instead of discovering how this brutal dystopian society comes to its knees, here we see how it came to be. Set 64 years before the first Hunger Games book, Suzanne Collins’ 2020 prequel tells the story of the 10th annual Hunger Games, where young people from the capital’s 12 oppressed communities will have to fight to the death live for television. But this is far from the perversely ostentatious affair that Katniss and Peeta are involved in; Still shaken by its communal war, the capital seeks to discover the flavor and, above all, the objective of such a violent spectacle. This film features many characters whose names fans will recognize but whose younger faces and personalities will seem incredibly new. For example, Coriolanus Snow is not the heartless old president we know and hate, but rather an 18-year-old young man seeking to do right by his country, his family, and his own conflicted heart. The upcoming release has the same director as 3 of the original 4 films, plus new stars in addition to Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, and EGOT winner (and Oprah’s Book Club author) Viola Davis. We’ll be sure to update the Fandango page daily to make sure we get the first tickets for November 17th.
Bong Joon-ho, the multifaceted South Korean filmmaker and Oscar winner, is back with his first film since Parasite and his first American production. Starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie, and Mark Ruffalo, the science-fi director mystery is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7. Pattinson plays titular Mickey, a “replaceable” worker sent on a harmful project to colonize an alien planet, with the understanding that if, or, more likely, when he dies, his body will simply regenerate with as many memories of Mickey’s past as possible, intact. As with Parasite, Bong will not only direct the film but also act as producer and screenwriter. With so much skill gathered into a single production, it will be difficult to wait for its release date on March 29, 2024.
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