Screen adaptations are slowly but surely taking over the film industry, and more and more literary primary sources are becoming the basis of movies and TV shows that are very enjoyable to spend an evening watching (especially since rainy autumn days are on the way). What to watch?
“Emma” (2020)
Based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The events unfold in 19th century England and describe a 21-year-old country woman who believes she is beautiful, rich, witty and knowledgeable about people. She does not plan to marry, but she arranges her private life for her friends.
“Alien” (2020)
A ten-episode HBO project based on the bestselling book by Stephen King. Coach is accused of murdering a boy from his team (fingerprints point to him), but … was 90 kilometers from the crime scene at the time of the murder. For viewers with strong nerves – fans of mystical detectives and horror films.
“The Queen’s Move” (2020)
The series is about an orphan (starring Anya Taylor-Joy) who has the ability to play chess and an addiction to illicit substances. And yes, in case you didn’t know, the project is based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name.
“Play” (2020)
Starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, a detective plays a married couple whose ideal relationship is changed by the sudden death of their neighbor and the disappearance of their husbands. Based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel What You Need to Know (2014).
“In Your Eyes” (2021)
British psychological thriller with only six episodes, based on the novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough. This is the story of a single mother who starts a relationship with a stranger in a bar and later turns out to be her new boss. Also married. However, this is not a reason to end their relationship and he soon meets his girlfriend’s wife and also learns the terrible secrets of their marriage. The ending will definitely surprise you!
Nightmare Street (2021)
Guillermo del Toro’s thriller, aka a film adaptation of William Linzi Gresham’s novel of the same name, in which there is not a single monster but the man himself. 1939 puts an end to his old life Stan Carlyle (Bradley Cooper) is nailed to a traveling cabin where he begins to master all manner of ways to entertain and deceive the public. The signature technique is to “read” thoughts.
“Dune” (2021)
Fantasy drama from Denis Villeneuve, with the coolest cast (Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and others), based on the cult novel by Frank Herbert. Humanity has settled on distant planets and powerful families are constantly fighting for power over the habitable space – this time, the planet Arrakis is at the center of the conflict, after conquering it you can gain power over the entire Universe.
“My Shantaram” (2022)
Based on Gregory David Roberts’ legendary novel based on the author’s own life, starring Charlie Hunnam (worth watching, if only for him). The action of the series, as in the literary original, is set in the 1980s, when drug addict Lin escapes from an Australian prison to India, becomes a counterfeiter and smuggler, plays a leading role in Bollywood and meets love.
“Pinocchio” (2022)
Carl Collodi’s fairy tale “The Adventures of Pinocchio” was read by Guillermo Del Toro, who won an Oscar for this work. A story about a wooden doll that turns into a real boy.
“Lame Horses” (2022)
A spy lyric comedy from Apple TV +, based on the novel of the same name, about a group of British intelligence agents MI6 who make serious mistakes in the service and are therefore “exiled” to the most prestigious unit. Movie starring Gary Oldman.
“Three Thousand Year Wishes” (2022)
Romantic fantasy directed by “Mad Max” George Miller, starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, based on Antonia Byatt’s novel “The Genie in the Nightingale’s Glass Bottle”. This is the story of a British linguist who flew from London to Istanbul to teach a narrative lesson. Just at the airport, a woman starts seeing mysterious creatures and when she tries to wash a glass bottle from many gift shops, she encounters a real genie. True, she is in no hurry to make three wishes, she is more interested in listening to her story.
“Death on the Nile” (2022)
An Agatha Christie classic on the big screen. This time, the need to investigate a mysterious murder distracts his attention from his own vacation, catching Hercule Poirot on a cruise ship on the Nile.
“The All-Seeing Eye” (2022)
1830 Retired PC Augustus Landor (Christina Bale) is hired to investigate the death of a military academy student. The man was found hanging, and when they were taken to the infirmary, someone had his heart removed. After examining the corpse and the place where it was hanged, the main character concludes that the poor man died violently when he is called upon by cadet Edgar Allan Poe, a young man with a keen mind and extraordinary powers of observation. . Mystical thriller based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard (2003).
“The Librarian” (2023)
Nikita Efremov in the film adaptation of the cult novel by Mikhail Elizarov. This is the story of the hapless actor Alexei Vyazintsev, who learned that his father was murdered under mysterious circumstances and went to his hometown to sell the apartment that remained there. True, he is instead drawn into a series of dangerous events due to … magical books that can give their readers superpowers.
“Openheimer” (2023)
One of the most anticipated movies of this year, second only to Barbie. Christopher Nolan’s biographical drama about the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who was at the beginning of the early development of nuclear weapons. A stellar cast as always with the director: Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Kenneth Branagh, Matt Damon, Gary Oldman and others.
“The Last Thing He Said To Me” (2023)
Jennifer Garner and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau are ideal wives whose cloudless family life was once disrupted by the loss of a spouse, and a mysterious note with the words “Protect her.” And while the main character tries to find out where her husband disappeared, everyone around says that he is not who he claims to be. The literary original, Laura Dave’s novel of the same name, came out only two years ago, by the way.
“Flower Moon Killer” (2023)
Martin Scorsese’s western drama with a duet by Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, based on the nonfiction book “The Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann. Oil. Money. Blood”. Events develop around the Osage Indian tribe living in Oklahoma City, USA in the 1920s. Native Americans are killed one by one after one of them makes a fortune by discovering oil. The massacres attract the attention of the FBI and they begin their investigation.
“Azazel” (2023)
A modern reading of the cult novel by Boris Akunin. Petrograd, the capital of the Russian Empire, 2023. There was no revolution, the Bolsheviks did not come to power, and the country’s government was Tsar III. Nicholas and Prime Minister Dmitry Orlov. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Erast Fandorin begins his career in the detective police department and learns strange news: a young millionaire, the owner of an oil pipeline company, shoots himself in the temple in the center of the capital. in front of dozens of people And this case is more complicated than it might seem at first glance. Starring Vladislav Tiron, Maxim Matveev, Evgeny Stychkin, Mila Ershova, Grigory Vernik and others.
Source: People Talk
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