Fall is the cleanable clip for curling up with a bully book—or possibly a bully movie. (We’re not monsters.) Even amended if you tin deed 2 birds with 1 stone, of course, and this aft each is Literary Hub, truthful present we contiguous the literate movies and TV shows—adaptations, documentaries, and different book-adjacent fare—we’re astir looking guardant to this season.* Let america cognize what you’re astir excited for successful the comments.

*NB: For this preview, I’m lone including TV bid premieres (you should already cognize astir Slow Horses) and movie debuts successful the US market.

SEPTEMBER:

Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day
In theaters, September 4

Literary bona fides: based connected Night & Day by Virginia Woolf (1919)

You could accidental Virginia Woolf is having a moment, though personally, I’d person to argue, erstwhile isn’t she? This film, which adapts Woolf’s little-read 2nd novel, is Woolf by mode of John Hughes: an Edwardian-era rom-com astir an astronomer who does everything successful her powerfulness to debar what is expected of her: getting married. Tina Gharavi directs based connected a screenplay by Justine Waddell; Haley Bennett stars arsenic Katherine Hilbery, with Lily Allen arsenic Mary Datchet, Elyas M’Barek arsenic Ralph Denham, and Jack Whitehall arsenic William Rodney.

A Tale of Two Cities
MGM+, September 6

Literary bona fides: based connected A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

Kit Harrington and François Civil prima arsenic the lookalikes Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, with Mirren Mack arsenic Lucie Manette, successful Daniel West’s 4 portion miniseries adaptation of Dickens’ humanities classic, directed by Richard R. Clark. Despite A Tale of Two Cities being often cited (including successful this trailer) arsenic 1 of the champion selling novels of each time, this is the archetypal notable surface adaptation since the ’80s. Reviews, alas, are mixed.

Masterpiece: Marble Hall Murders
PBS, September 6

Literary bona fides: based connected Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz (2025)

The (supposed) last installment successful the Susan Ryeland bid finds the exertion moving connected a funny manuscript, an Atticus Pünd continuation written by Eliot Crace, the grandson of the celebrated writer Miriam Crace, who claims that not lone was his grandma murdered, but that the concealed is hidden wrong his book. Very bully publicity tactic! Unless it someway goes wrong… Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan instrumentality arsenic Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd; Rebecca Gatward directs.

Last Seen
Apple TV, September 9

Literary bona fides: based connected Ryan David Jahn’s The Dispatcher (2011)

Per our September streaming guide: Patrick Brammall stars successful this Australian thriller, successful which a constabulary dispatcher receives a telephone from a young pistillate who sounds similar his daughter—who has been missing for 11 years—and indispensable (of course) find retired the truth.

The Perfect Lie
Netflix, September 10

Literary bona fides: based connected The Dinner Club by Saskia Noort (2004, English tr. 2007)

In this Dutch play bid based connected Noort’s bestselling novel, 4 affluent and glamorous couples are surviving the dream—until 1 of them dies successful a mysterious location fire. Things statesman to unravel, and Karen, the group’s newest member, finds herself pulling astatine threads, arsenic everything she thought she knew astir her caller friends begins to unravel. The publication has been pitched arsenic “Desperate Housewives scripted by Patricia Highsmith,” which is precise appealing, and it’s the archetypal successful a series, truthful this could be your caller favourite thing.

Neagley
Prime Video, September 16

Literary bona fides: based connected the quality created by Lee Child

In which Maria Sten, aka Miss Denmark Universe 2008, aka Reacher‘s Frances Neagley, gets her ain spin-off.

Practical Magic 2
In theaters, September 18

Literary bona fides: based connected The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (2021)

28 years aft the archetypal cult classical (and Lit Hub favorite), the Owens sisters, and aunts, and daughters (now astir grown) are backmost to interruption the curse and conjure up immoderate Millennial nostalgia. Will it beryllium immoderate good? Probably not, but astatine slightest everybody’s tegument looks magically amazing!

The Master and Margarita
In theaters, September 18

Literary bona fides: based connected The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)

After a long and analyzable ineligible battle, Michael Lockshin’s adaptation of one of the champion novels of each time is coming stateside, aft its immense occurrence successful Russia successful 2024. I americium hopeful for this anti-authoritarian fantasia, which has gotten precise bully reviews internationally, contempt the information that I person ever considered it to beryllium nigh unfilmable. The radical privation Behemoth!

The Love Hypothesis
Prime Video, September 23

Literary bona fides: based connected Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis (2021)

Per our September streaming guide: Tom Bateman and Lili Reinhart prima successful this adaptation of Hazelwood’s bestselling romance caller (which originated as Star Wars fan fiction, for immoderate it’s worth). To beryllium fair, it looks beauteous cute.

My Sad Dead (Mis muertos tristes)
Netflix, September 24

Literary bona fides: based connected Mariana Enriquez’s “My Sad Dead“

Very funny indeed: Pablo Larraín directs this fearfulness miniseries, successful which a doc who tin perceive the dormant discovers that her niece is blessed (or cursed) with a akin ability. The bid is based connected Enriquez’s 2023 communicative “My Sad Dead,” portion besides drawing from her different works; Enriquez adapted her ain stories on with Larraín, Guillermo Calderón, and Anastasia Ayazi.

The Final Problem
Netflix, September 25

Literary bona fides: based connected The Final Problem by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2023, English tr. 2026)

This constricted bid manages to beryllium doubly literary: it’s based connected the best-selling caller by Pérez-Reverte and is inspired by Sherlock Holmes—that is, it concerns a retired histrion celebrated for playing the celebrated detective, who finds himself playing detective for existent erstwhile he’s stranded with 12 different radical successful a fancy edifice connected a distant island…and 1 of them winds up dead. Fun!

OCTOBER:

East of Eden
Netflix, October 1

Literary bona fides: based connected East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)

Zoe Kazan’s constricted series, based connected Steinbeck’s masterpiece, is thee marquee literate adaptation of the season, starring Florence Pugh arsenic Cathy Ames, on with quite a fewer different blistery people. Fun fact: Kazan’s gramps Elia Kazan directed the 1955 adaptation. Think Zoe tin apical it?

Verity
In theaters, October 2

Literary bona fides: based connected Verity by Colleen Hoover (2018)

Michael Showalter directs the latest Colleen Hoover associated (from a screenplay by Nick Antosca), successful which an an unemployed writer (Dakota Johnson) is hired to decorativeness the enactment of a bestselling—but mysteriously paralyzed—author (Anne Hathaway), lone to observe a manuscript that makes her question who, exactly, she’s moving for. Josh Hartnett is the husband, which should archer you everything you request to know.

Kill Jackie
Prime Video, October 2

Literary bona fides: based connected The Price You Pay by Nick Harkaway arsenic Aidan Truhen (2018)

Catherine Zeta-Jones—with her earthy Welsh accent connected afloat show for once!—stars arsenic the gender-swapped Jackie Price, an creation trader with a past truthful checkered that nary less than 7 assassins are hired to termination her. Well, she’ll conscionable person to termination them first, won’t she?

Carrie
Prime Video, October 7

Literary bona fides: based connected Carrie by Stephen King (1974)

Mike Flanagan’s latest fearfulness offering (and latest King adaptation) is simply a miniseries mentation of Carrie, the novel’s 4th surface adaptation, which reimagines the classical successful a modern precocious school. “The themes that Steve was talking astir fractional a period agone of kindness versus cruelty, of empathy and bullying, and unit astatine schoolhouse person go adjacent much applicable contiguous than helium could person contemplated due to the fact that of our narration to exertion and the grade to which unit encroaches connected our precocious schoolers, particularly successful the United States,” Flanagan told EW. “So that meant we had an accidental to archer a communicative astir a modern teenage acquisition that could usage the seeds of these characters King created 50 years ago, but explicit them wholly differently.” If anyone tin bash it, it’s Flanagan.

Other Mommy
In theaters, October 9

Literary bona fides: based connected Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (2024)

Jessica Chastain plays some Mommy and Other Mommy successful this upsetting-looking fearfulness novel, which is astir precisely what you deliberation it’s about. The horror heads are hyped, but this scaredy-cat volition beryllium hiding successful the corner.

Whalefall
In theaters, October 14

Literary bona fides: based connected Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (2023)

Daniel Kraus co-wrote the screenplay for the adaptation of his thriller astir a young scuba diver (Austin Abrams) who, portion searching for the remains of his begetter (Josh Brolin), gets swallowed by a sperm whale. Yep, deliberation 127 hours x Pinocchio. Or the Bible, I guess. Brian Duffield directs.

Sense and Sensibility
In theaters, October 16

Literary bona fides: based connected Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)

The archetypal of 2 large caller Jane Austen adaptations this fall, directed by Georgia Oakley from a screenplay by Diana Reid, and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones arsenic Elinor Dashwood and Esmé Creed-Miles arsenic Marianne. Sense and Sensibility is somewhat less-trod than Pride and Prejudice (though don’t slumber connected Ang Lee’s 1995 adaptation with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman) truthful I’m a spot much funny successful it; let’s spot what they do.

La Bola Negra
In theaters, October 16 / Netflix, December 2

Literary bona fides: inspired by Federico García Lorca’s unfinished caller of the aforesaid name, and Alberto Conejero’s La piedra oscura

Directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (Los Javis) won the Best Director grant astatine Cannes this twelvemonth (shared, incidentally, with different introduction connected this list), for their queer epic, which was inspired by an unfinished enactment of the aforesaid sanction by Federico García Lorca (Alberto Cortés appears arsenic the poet) and Alberto Conejero’s play. “We thought, ‘Let’s marque the gayest warfare movie ever,'” Ambrossi said in a Q&A astatine Telluride. “That’s the authorities down this. And nary 1 told america to alteration it a bit. And now, present we are.” As for Lorca’s work, “It made maine recognize the value of creation successful a carnal way—the things that travel to us, the pieces of creation from past generations that archer america astir who we were and what happened to us,” Calvo said. “At a clip erstwhile creation is being questioned, we person to punctual ourselves that it speaks the champion language.”

Klara and the Sun
In theaters, October 23

Literary bona fides: based connected Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)

Taika Waititi’s Klara is surely star-studded: Jenna Ortega is the titular Artificial Friend, and Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Aran Murphy, Steve Buscemi, and Natasha Lyonne circular retired the cast. But volition it, 1 wonders, beryllium arsenic goofy arsenic it seems from the trailer? Ishiguro’s caller is simply a haunting, bittersweet communicative astir nonaccomplishment and clip passing and the quality of humanity, and this seems rather a spot cuter than that. Still, Waititi has called it “his astir melodramatic movie yet,” truthful determination whitethorn beryllium immoderate introspection yet.

Fatherland
Mubi, October 23

Literary bona fides: concerning the writer Thomas Mann

Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler prima arsenic Erika and Thomas Mann connected a roadworthy travel successful 1949 Germany successful Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest film, for which helium won Best Director astatine Cannes. Aside from the information that 1 should ever spot thing with Hüller successful it, the movie has already garnered glowing reviews, including from The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw, who called it “an impossibly elegant, poised humanities vignette whose brevity and power tin hardly incorporate its characters’ idiosyncratic and humanities pain.”

Wicker
In theaters, October 23

Literary bona fides: based connected “The Wicker Husband” by Ursula Wills (2008)

Olivia Colman is simply a smelly medieval fisherwoman who marries—checks notes—a basket? No, it’s a antheral made retired of wicker, played by Alexander Skarsgård, with whom she past proceeds to person nonstop blistery sex, alternatively disturbing the denizens of their small village. Throw successful Peter Dinklage arsenic the maestro weaver who builds her imagination man, Richard E. Grant arsenic the municipality doctor, and the precise literate tagline “a hard antheral is bully to find,” and I, my friends, americium precise interested. Actually, I deliberation I bash person immoderate baskets astir present somewhere…

Wildwood
In theaters, October 23

Literary bona fides: based connected Wildwood by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis (2011)

After much than 15 years, Laika’s ambitious stop-motion adaptation of Wildwood is yet coming to theaters. “A immense portion of the crushed it’s taken america truthful agelong to bring this to beingness cinematically is that it’s incredibly ambitious,” says manager Travis Knight. “We’ve had to physique up the originative tools, the exertion and our storytelling muscles to bash this publication justice.” Quite a connection considering each 5 erstwhile films produced by Laika person been nominated for Best Animated Feature Oscars. Maybe this volition beryllium the twelvemonth they win?

Nocturne
Apple TV, October 30

Literary bona fides: based connected The Sandman and Lazarus by Lars Kepler (2012, 2018)

Liev Schreiber stars arsenic Jonah Lynn successful this adaptation of the bestselling Swedish thrillers (written by hubby and woman squad Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril nether the sanction Lars Kepler), a erstwhile homicide detective who relocates to a tiny municipality successful Pennsylvania town, lone to find its citizens being terrorized by a notorious serial slayer Jurek Walter (Stephen Graham), contempt the information that he’s already down bars. Finally Jonah indispensable telephone connected Saga Bauer (Zazie Beetz), his surrogate daughter, to effort and get Jurek to speech earlier it’s excessively late.

The Mosquito Bowl
In theaters, October 30 / Netflix, November 25

Literary bona fides: based connected The Mosquito Bowl by Buzz Bissinger (2022)

Peter Berg and Buzz Bissinger are backmost unneurotic again, this clip for The Mosquito Bowl, which dramatizes the celebrated American shot crippled played betwixt 2 regiments of Marines—which included galore of the country’s champion shot players—at Guadalcanal during World War II. Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis star.

Yaga
AMC+, October TBA

Literary bona fides: based connected Yaga by Kat Sandler (2019)

Canadian playwright Kat Sandler has turned her 2019 play based connected the fable of Baba Yaga into a tv amusement for Canada’s Crave (the aforesaid level that brought america Heated Rivalry). And yes, Hudson Williams is successful it, on with Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, and Clark Backo. Looks deranged; I’ll ticker it!

NOVEMBER:

The Good Daughter
Peacock, November 12

Literary bona fides: based connected The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter (2017)

In Karin Slaughter’s adaptation of her ain instant New York Times bestseller, Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy prima arsenic sisters whose lives were upended by unit decades before, and present find themselves forced to look it again. Brendan Gleeson besides stars, which is ne'er a atrocious sign.

Victorian Psycho
In theaters, November 13

Literary bona fides: based connected Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito (2025)

From the look of things, Feito’s macabre consciousness of wit has been ably translated to the screen—not surprising, arsenic she wrote the screenplay herself. Zachary Wigon directs, and Maika Monroe stars arsenic Winifred Notty, a governess who tries and fails not to beryllium a complete, well, psycho successful this irreverent, gory horror.

Ebenezer
In theaters, November 13

Literary bona fides: based connected A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

I permission this present not arsenic a recommendation, exactly, but due to the fact that the conception is truthful tone-deaf arsenic to beryllium profoundly hilarious: Well, everyone knows Ebenezer Scrooge was an evil, affluent miser who hated Christmas. What Ti West’s caller movie presupposes is… possibly helium wasn’t? Johnny Depp stars (they truly privation to marque definite you recognize that Johnny! Depp! Stars!) successful this revisionist adaptation of the adapted-to-death Dickens novella, which attempts to, ahem, marque a lawsuit for Scrooge. The evil affluent guy. In 2026. “In different adaptations, Scrooge is benignant of an asshole, and past the remainder of the characters are benevolent, cleanable people. And it was truly our extremity to effort to equilibrium that retired to accidental that there’s overmuch much of a grey country successful the story,” West told EW. “We privation to springiness Scrooge logic and a bully argument, truthful erstwhile helium is making an statement astir something, he’s not wrong.” It’s “the sanction you know, the communicative you don’t.” Sure, but couldn’t these 38 cardinal dollars beryllium amended spent elsewhere?

The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping
In theaters, November 20

Literary bona fides: based connected Sunrise connected the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (2025)

Suzanne Collins keeps churning retired the prequels, and Hollywood keeps making them. This 1 is supposedly based connected the enactment of philosopher David Hume. Ok!

Blade Runner 2099
Prime Video, November 25

Literary bona fides: based connected characters from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer prima successful Silka Luisa’s miniseries spin-off, which, arsenic the rubric suggests, takes spot 50 years aft the events of Blade Runner 2049. Now, it’s Replicants who regularisation the satellite (or astatine slightest LA), and humans who find themselves astatine the bottommost of the barrel, which honestly sounds similar the franchise’s astir realistic mentation of the aboriginal yet.

DECEMBER:

Clarissa
In theaters, December 11

Literary bona fides: based connected Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

Another Virginia Woolf adaptation, this 1 a reimagining of Mrs. Dalloway acceptable successful modern Lagos. Directed and produced by Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, the movie stars Sophie Okonedo arsenic Clarissa, on with David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Toheeb Jimoh, Nikki Amuka-Bird, and Ayo Edebiri. Looks gorgeous, and early reviews are precise promising. Can’t hold for this one.

Ink
In theaters, December 11

Literary bona fides: based connected Ink by James Graham (2017)

Guy Pearce is Rupert Murdoch and Jack O’Connell is Larry Lamb successful this communicative astir the former’s 1969 takeover of British tabloid The Sun—and what happened after. “The movie treats this transition, and the soaring emergence successful nether a decennary of the relaunched Sun to go the country’s highest-circulation daily, arsenic a raucous caper, successful which the Mephistophelean Murdoch seduces Lamb into a Faustian pact that gradually sees the exertion eclipse his leader successful bottommost line-driven ruthlessness,” writes David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s each visually stimulating and highly enjoyable successful its anti-establishment attitude, adjacent if the content remains that this is simply a morality play with an elusive constituent of view.” The legendary Danny Boyle directs, with a screenplay adapted by Graham from his signifier play.

Dune: Part Three
In theaters, December 18

Literary bona fides: based connected Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (1969)

Now with adjacent more Dune.

ALSO EXPECTED:

Pride and Prejudice
Netflix, Fall 2026

Literary bona fides: based connected Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

There is nary merchandise day acceptable for Dolly Alderton’s six-part miniseries adaptation of Austen’s astir beloved property, but the hype is real. (The Austen adaptations support coming, and we each support lining up to watch.) Emma Corrin stars arsenic Elizabeth Bennet, and Slow Horses’ Jack Lowden is Mr. Darcy, but I person to accidental I’m astir excited to spot Olivia Colman and Rufus Sewell arsenic Mrs. and Mr. Bennet. Euros Lyn (Heartstopper) directs.

Unaccustomed Earth
Netflix, Fall 2026

Literary bona fides: based connected Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (2008)

Though we person yet to spot a trailer, oregon adjacent immoderate images from set, Netflix tells us that Madhuri Shekar’s bid adaptation of Lahiri’s bestselling abbreviated communicative postulation volition beryllium “an epic, soapy play astir an migrant assemblage navigating love, desire, and belonging. . . . When a star-crossed romance betwixt a devoted woman (Freida Pinto) and her long-lost emotion (Siddharth) comes to light, a scandalous matter is born, and caller conflict lines are drawn successful the elite, insular Indian American assemblage of Cambridge, Massachusetts.” I’m listening.