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Book-to-Movie Adaptions Coming Fall 2016

From 'Fences' to 'The Girl on the Train,' here are 13 books we can't wait to see on the big screen
By Isabella Biedenharn,  Christian Holub,  Dana Getz,  Allison Sadlier,  Madeline Raynor and Jessica Goodman Updated September 08, 2016 at 01:00 AM EDT
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
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Film Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Release Date: Sept. 30

Ransom Riggs created a fantastical world of children with special powers in the first book of his Peculiar trilogy and now Tim Burton helms the film adaptation. Eva Green stars as the titular enigmatic headmistress and Asa Butterfield is Miss Peregrine’s newest charge, Jacob. --Allison Sadlier

For more on Miss Peregrine, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
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Film Title: The Girl on the Train

Release Date: Oct. 7

It was the thriller that took 2015 by storm: Rachel Watson (played by Emily Blunt in the film), a divorced alcoholic with voyeuristic tendencies, thinks she witnesses part of a crime. But as she gets entangled with police and the victim’s family, she can’t suppress the gnawing feeling that she might have something to do with the crime herself. -- Isabella Biedenharn

For more on The Girl on the Train, see all of EW's coverage and recent cover story.

 

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling

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Film Title: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Release Date: Nov. 18

What was originally a spinoff textbook to the Harry Potter series becomes a film about the book's fictional author Newt Scamander. Eddie Redmayne will play the Hogwarts dropout who has to collect a coterie of escaped magical creatures in 1920s New York City. -- Allison Sadlier

For more on Fantastic Beasts, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
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Film Title: The Light Between Oceans

Release Date: Sept. 2

Real-life lovebirds Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander lead Derek Cianfrance’s adaption of M.L. Stedman’s 2012 tearjerker. After diving into a whirlwind romance amidst Western Australia’s idyllic coast, a war vet-turned-lighthouse keeper and his wife take in a castaway newborn when they fail to have a baby of their own. The gesture eventually sparks devastating consequences. --Dana Getz

For more on The Light Between Oceans, see all of EW's coverage and review.

 

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Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
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Film Title: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Release Date: Oct. 7

Rafe Khatchadorian hates everything about middle school. In an act of defiance, he and his friend Leo the Silent vow to break every rule at their school. The film adaptation stars Griffin Gluck as Rafe, and features comedy vets Lauren Graham, Retta, and Adam Pally. -- Madeline Raynor

For more on Middle School, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Film Title: A Monster Calls

Release Date: Dec. 23

A monster movie getting Oscar nominations? It could happen here, as Patrick Ness’ A Monster Calls is more about grief than supernatural horror. (Ness himself wrote the screenplay for the movie, directed by J. A. Bayona.) Newcomer Lewis MacDougall stars as Conor O’Malley, a boy who’s visited by a storytelling monster as his mother suffers from terminal cancer. After some release date changes, A Monster Calls is set to be in theaters Dec. 23. --Christian Holub

For more on A Monster Calls, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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American Pastoral by Philip Roth

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Film Title: American Pastoral

Release Date: Oct. 28

Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut alongside Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Connolly in this adaption of Philip Roth’s 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Set in the post-war turmoil of 1960s America, the film follows a successful businessman as his life begins to unravel when his daughter adopts a radical new political affiliation. --Dana Getz

For more on American Pastoral, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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Inferno by Dan Brown

Inferno by Dan Brown
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Film Title: Inferno

Release Date: Oct. 28

The third of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon novels to be adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks, Inferno once again combines Renaissance art with modern terror, as Langdon races against time to solve a conspiracy based around Dante’s Inferno. Inferno is due out Oct. 28, just in time for Halloween. --Christian Holub

For more on Inferno, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

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Film Title: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Release Date: Nov. 11

Helmed by Ang Lee, the film adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 novel about an Iraq war hero who comes home and is honored at the 2004 Super Bowl takes major risks when it comes to filmmaking. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk was shot at 120 frames per second, a technique that's used to capture scenes "how your eyes see things," Lee told EW earlier this year. Starring newcomer Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Steve Martin, Garrett Hedlund, and Vin Diesel, Billy Lynn is told through flashbacks, imagined futures, and a poignant present. -- Jessica Goodman

For more on Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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Fences by August Wilson

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Film Title: Fences

Release Date: Dec. 25

Denzel Washington directs and stars in the Scott Rudin-produced drama based on August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play by the same name, which follows Negro League baseball player Troy Maxson (Washington) after he retires and begins working as a garbage man in Pittsburgh. Washington previously played Maxson in the 2010 Broadway revival of Fences and Viola Davis, who costarred in that production as Maxson's wife, will join him in the film version as well. The Paramount flick is well positioned for awards season when it hits theaters on Dec. 25.-- Jessica Goodman

For more on Fences, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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Tony and Susan by Austin Wright

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Film Title: Nocturnal Animals

Release Date: Nov. 23

Fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford wrote and directed this adaptation of Wright’s 1993 novel about a woman (Amy Adams) reading her ex-husband’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) manuscript (titled “Nocturnal Animals” in the book) — a novel that feels dangerously real and unsettlingly threatening to her. -- Isabella Biedenharn

For more on Nocturnal Animals, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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Jack Reacher series by Lee Child

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
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Film Title: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Release Date: Oct 21

Tom Cruise returns as Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the sequel to 2012's Jack Reacher. This time around, Reacher heads to Virginia to see the head of his former unit, Major Turner (Cobie Smulders) and gets entangled in a web of espionage, dead soldiers, and a potential daughter. -- Jessica Goodman

For more on Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow

Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow
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Film Title: Sully

Release Date: Sept. 9

It’s been seven years since heroic pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger made that amazing emergency landing on the Hudson. Now on Sept. 9, we will see his story on the big screen, adapted from his memoir and starring Tom Hanks.-- Madeline Raynor

For more on Sully, see all of EW's coverage.

 

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