The fall season can bring out some of the biggest movies of the year, many adapted
from books. Will this fall live up to the trend? (Photo: Bill Longshaw )
Someone once said that if summer movies bring out most of the action-packed blockbusters of the year, then the fall season brings out movies with more character development and intricate plots. There seems to be some of both in the Fall, 2009 line-up of movies adapted from books.
If you are cracking open the books this fall, maybe at least one or two of them can be books you read for pleasure, purely recreational. If you enjoy biographies, graphic novels, vampire thrillers, children's books, or young adult coming-of-age stories, you will be in luck this fall. If you are looking forward to a full season of serious dramas, you may find your weekends at the theater a bit lacking.
Check out the calendar below for adapted films coming out in September, October, and November. Click on a film title to read more about it.
Suggestion: Bookmark this page and return to on Fridays throughout the season to see what's coming out!
Enjoy reading books and going to the movies!
September 11:
Whiteout, based on the graphic novel by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Steve Lieber
September 18:
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, based on the children's book by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett
The Informant! from the book, The Informant: A True Story, by Kurt Eichenwald
Coco Before Chanel from the book by Edmonde Charles-Roux
September 25:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men from the short story collection by David Foster Wallace
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell adapted by the author Tucker Max from his novel
Surrogates from the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele
October 2:
Whip It from the novel by Shauna Cross
October 9:
An Education from the memoir by Lynn Barber
The Damned United based on the novel Damned Utd by David Peace
October 13:
Private Lives of Pippa Lee, based on the novel by Rebecca Miller
October 16:
The Road from the novel by Cormac McCarthy
Where the Wild Things Are based on the children's book by Maurice Sendak
October 23:
Amelia from biographies of the flyer by Susan Butler and Mary Lovell
Astro Boy from the comic books by Osamu Tezuka
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant based on the books by Darren Shan
October 30:
Youth in Revolt from the novel by C. D. Payne
November 6:
Disney's A Christmas Carol drawn from the classic novel by Charles Dickens
The Box based on the short story, "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson
The Men Who Stare at Goats, from the book by Jon Ronson
November 20:
The Twilight Saga: New Moon from the bestselling novel by Stephenie Meyer
November 25:
The Fantastic Mr. Fox based on the children's book by Roald Dahl
Me and Orson Welles from the book by Robert Kaplow
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