I thought I'd take this Tuesday to go ahead and preview the year in film of books. That's right, let's look at ten big movies this year being adapted from the pages...
(It goes without saying that all are movies that I want to see...)
And I'll avoid Catching Fire because we've all heard of that and we all want to see it...
- Carrie
Yep, another run-through of the picked-on girl doused in blood. With Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie and Julianne Moore (in the Piper Laurie role) as her wacky fanatic mother.
- Therese Raquin
Yes, an Emile Zola novel - arguably his greatest - and the reason you should be excited is that Elizabeth Olsen and Oscar Isaac (10 Years) are French lovers who murder Olsen's husband and are then haunted by his ghost. Steamy! Jessica Lange co-stars.
- Serena
Ron Rash's 2012 novel got a lot of acclaim. It's about a man who heads a timber empire in North Carolina during the Great Depression. Complications ensue when his wife is unable to give birth - and, hence, an heir. Why should you care? Because it co-stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, both fresh off their recent Oscar nominations for Silver Linings Playbook.
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The great James Thurber story about the daydreaming, henpecked husband. Directed and starring Ben Stiller and co-starring some really funny people: Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt.
- The Spook's Apprentice
A young adult novel by Joseph Delancey - the first in a series - about a countryside teen who lives on a farm boy and is known as the Seventh Son - a boy who can see things others can't. Good cast: Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore. A dark fantasy for teens. Known as The Seventh Son.
- Parker
Out in a few weeks, Donald Westlake's novel (written as Richard Stark under the title The Hunter) about the title criminal - previously brought to the screen by, among others, Robert Duvall and Lee Marvin (in the great Point Blank), who offs a lot of bad guys and has an overwhelming impact on the ladies. Jason Statham is ideal for the role. Jennifer Lopez is the token female. Bobby Cannavale, Nick Nolte, and Michael Chiklis co-star.
- Admission
A light, comedic love story for adults, taken from Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel. Tina Fey plays an admissions officer at Princeton who encounters an alternative student who might be the son she gave up for adoption years earlier. Paul Rudd joins her, as does Lily Tomlin and Michael Sheen. A different kind of role for Fey. Directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy).
- The Company You Keep
Robert Redford movies aren't really big deals anymore, but his one (taken from Neil Gordon's novel) sounds choice: A former Weather Underground activist has to go on the run when a journalist discovers his identity. Redford stars and directs, and he is joined by Susan Sarandon, Anna Kendrick, Julie Christie, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Terrence Howard, Richard Jenkins, Brendan Gleeson, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Cooper - this thriller might just have the cast of the year.
- The Monuments Men
Okay, this might have the cast of the year. There isn't a movie Julia and I want to see more year. If you like art crime and are intrigued by the nefarious shenanigans the Nazis got up to during the war in regards to art theft, and you want to see some Hollywood heavyweights play the real-life men who were charged with retrieving the paintings, go no further. Written, directed by and starring George Clooney (reason enough) and with an irresistible cast: Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, John Goodman, Daniel Craig, Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville, and The Artist Oscar winner Jean Dujardin. From Robert Edsel's non-fiction book.
- Horns
Stephen King's son Joe Hill wrote the novel, and it should be a lot of fun. Daniel Radcliffe - very good in last year's The Woman in Black - stars as a guy whose girlfriend is raped and murdered. One day, he wakes up and discovers that he has horns on his head! A horror fantasy directed by the guy (Alexandre Aja) who gave us the Piranha remake.
Any of these sound good to you?
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