Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle.
To that end, here’s a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and TV coming to streaming services this month. In Karin Slaughter’s adaptation of her own instant New York Times bestseller, Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy star as sisters whose lives were upended by violence decades before, and now find themselves forced to face it again. Brendan Gleeson also stars, which is never a bad sign. (From our Fall Preview) Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer star in Silka Luisa’s miniseries spin-off, which, as the title suggests, takes place 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049.
Now, it’s Replicants who rule the world (or at least LA), and humans who find themselves at the bottom of the barrel, which honestly sounds like the franchise’s most realistic version of the future yet. (From our Fall Preview) Peter Berg and Buzz Bissinger are back together again, this time for The Mosquito Bowl, which dramatizes the famous American football game played between two regiments of Marines—which included many of the country’s best football players—at Guadalcanal during World War II. Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis star. (From our Fall Preview) Francis Ford Coppola’s proto-Brat Pack take on Hinton’s indelible coming of age novel is worth a watch for the cast alone: Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Leif Garrett, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Diane Lane, C. Thomas Howell, and of course, Rob Lowe in his very first feature film appearance.
A cult classic for good reason. Another ’80s coming-of-age classic—which King has repeatedly mentioned as one of his favorite adaptations of his work (and there have been plenty). But is it the best literary film adaptation of the last 50 years?
Sam Mendes does justice to Yates’ classic novel of marital discontent, aided by another great cast: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as Frank and April Wheeler, along with Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour and Kathy Bates. Not exactly light viewing, however. But here’s some light viewing for you, if you’re into that: Scorsese’s widely lauded (if not that widely viewed) 3-D adventure about an orphan in 1930s Paris who learns about the magic of movies.
Flynn wrote the screenplay for David Fincher’s adaptation of her blockbuster, culture-shaking novel, which stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as the central couple. That’s probably why it’s almost as effective as the novel. Also one of the best “but did you know it was a literary adaptation?” movies of all time.
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