Celebrate National Book Lovers Day 2020 With 6 Novels Becoming Movies This Fall
National Book Lovers Day is Aug. 9, and it only makes sense that it’s time to add to the To Be Read pile. Readers are often rushing to read books before they’re made into movies, so bookworms can check out these titles before they hit the screen this fall.
“I’m Thinking of Ending Things” will release on Netflix on Sept. 4, and fans may recognize the title as Iain Reid’s 2014 psychological thriller novel. The story follows a young woman who goes with her boyfriend on a trip to meet his parents, and the trip doesn’t exactly go well.
“After We Collided” is the sequel to last year’s “After,” and it’s based on the steamy new adult romance novel of the same title by Anna Todd. Tessa (Josephine Langford) and Hardin’s (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) love story continues on Oct. 23, when the movie will be released in the U.S. in theaters and Video On Demand platforms.
“Candyman,” currently slated for an Oct. 16 release, is a sequel, the fourth in the “Candyman” franchise, but they’re all based on “The Forbidden” by Clive Barker. The slasher film, about a supernatural killer with a hook instead of a hand, stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Colman Domingo. Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) co-wrote the screenplay with Win Rosenfeld and director Nia DaCosta.
“Rebecca” will release on Netflix on Oct. 21. The film, a psychological thriller based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, follows widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer) and his new wife (Lily James) as they return to his family estate. It becomes clear that his late wife Rebecca’s legacy is kept very much alive by housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas).
“Unpregnant” is an adaptation of Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan’s novel of the same title, and it’s set to release sometime this fall on HBO Max. The movie follows Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson), an ambitious high schooler with an unplanned pregnancy who turns to the only person she knows would go on a road trip with her for an abortion, her ex-BFF Bailey (Barbie Ferreira).
“The Woman in the Window” by A.J. Finn still doesn’t have a release date, but late 2020 seems likely if Netflix finalizes their deal with Disney. Originally set to come out on May 15, the film has been delayed due to the pandemic. However, it seems like the streamer wants to buy the horror film, the final title from the Fox 2000 division, Deadline reports.
The film follows an agoraphobic psychologist (Amy Adams) who suspects something has gone terribly wrong after her neighbor (Julianne Moore) stops appearing in her window. Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star.
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