Take heed to Audiobooks of Fall Movies: From ‘Blonde’ to ‘Bones and All’

It’s fall movie pageant season and there’s a complete new crop of literary-minded movies coming to screens by means of the remainder of the yr. For the reason that movies that premiere at festivals like Telluride, Venice, Toronto and New York are those that fill awards  nominations lists a number of months later, the festivals present an early peek on the films that will likely be entrance and middle on the Oscars, movie critics awards and all the opposite end-of-year kudosfests.

However there’s a method to get to know many of those works even earlier than they premiere at festivals and are available to streaming or film screens: get accustomed to the books they’re primarily based on. These titles gained’t be successful the unique screenplay prize, however there are at the very least eight diversifications of notable literary works coming this yr which can be value diving into. If studying time is brief, why not attempt listening on audiobook whereas commuting, strolling, roadtripping or making chores fly by?

From Joyce Carol Oates’ have a look at the of Marilyn Monroe in “Blonde” to Lena Dunham’s adaptation of Catherine the Nice story “Catherine Known as Birdy” to Luca Guadignino’s fashionable cannibal story “Bones & All,” listed below are eight audiobooks to prep for fall and winter movies.

Taylor Russell and Timothee Chalamet star within the adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ horror novel that’s due in theaters on Nov. 23. Russell performs a younger girl who leaves house on a quest to search out her father and meets up with a drifter as they each starvation for acceptance from an unwelcoming world.

“Mad Max” director George Miller’s newest movie relies on the brief story “The Djinn within the Nightingale’s Eye,” written by A.S. Byatt. Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba star within the fantastical story of the romance between a tutorial and a genie that opens in theaters on Aug. 31.

Joyce Carol Oates’ sweeping biographical novel concerning the glamorous star has been tailored by director Andrew Dominik, starring Ana de Armas because the display idol. Oates has known as an early minimize of the movie, which fictionalizes facets of her life, “sensible” and “very disturbing” and it’s set to hold a uncommon NC-17 score when it premieres on Netflix on Sept. 23. Take heed to the audiobook now and be ready for what is bound to be a controversial launch.

A closeted policeman in Nineteen Fifties England turns into concerned in an advanced love triangle in Bethan Roberts’ novel, which has been tailored for the display starring Harry Kinds and Emma Corrin. “My Policeman” opens Oct. 21 in theaters earlier than a Nov. 4 Amazon Prime Video launch.

The non-fiction e book chronicles the groundbreaking New York Occasions investigation that led to Harvey Weinstein’s downfall and the delivery of the #MeToo motion, as many years of sexual assault within the office got here to mild. Carey Mulligan and Zoey Kazan play the 2 reporters who labored for years on the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation on this “Highlight”-style dramatization.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s award-winning novel. It’s the story of a pair with 4 kids who navigate household life as a catastrophic practice accident blankets their city in chemical waste — an “airborne poisonous occasion.” The movie performs the Venice and New York Movie Festivals forward of its Netflix premiere later within the fall.

This Swedish bestseller has been tailored right into a film starring Tom Hanks and renamed “A Man Known as Otto.” Hanks will play the curmudgeonly man who looks as if the neighborhood grump, however begins to speak in confidence to different people after a pair with two younger daughters strikes in subsequent door. Take heed to Fredrik Backman’s novel on audiobook for a style of his deadpan humor earlier than the Marc Forster film comes out in December. 

After Will Andrews drops out of Harvard within the 1870s, he heads west to Butcher’s Crossing, Kansas, the place he meets a person who convinces him to hitch him on a buffalo searching expedition. Nicolas Cage, Xander Berkeley and Rachel Keller star in Gabe Polsky’s adaptation of the Western novel written by John Williams. There’s no launch set but, so audiences might have to attend till 2023 for the movie model.

A 14-year outdated lady narrates this historic fiction e book within the type of a diary about her life within the 1200. She goals of going off to battle within the Crusades, although she’s anticipated to maintain home and get married to a wealthy man. Lena Dunham directs the movie adaptation starring Bella Ramsey as Woman Catherine. The movie opens Oct. 7.