Fall Film Adaptations and Tie-ins
Fall is on the way, as Entertainment Weekly‘s current double issue reminds us, with its previews of 104 major movie releases through December.
Many of those films, including the one on the cover, had their beginnings as books, some with strong literary credentials, like Ang Lee’s adaptation of the award winning Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk or major best seller status, like The Girl on the Train and The Light Between Oceans.
One of the most heavily anticipated movies, however is based on a lesser-known title, The Queen of Katwe (S&S/Scribner), the biography of an unlikely chess champion, a young girl from a poor family in Uganda. The Disney movie, directed by Mira Nair, is already being touted as a film to break through #OscarsSoWhite.
See our listings of upcoming adaptations, for the both big and small screens, as well as our complete listing of upcoming tie-ins.