It’s not even summer time but, however over at Little Gold Men, we’re already desirous about the autumn, after we’ll get our first have a look at most of this yr’s Oscar hopefuls. But as we depend down the times, we even have some homework to do.
Every yr, a number of main movies are literary variations, based mostly on all the things from beloved classics to well-liked memoirs, and 2025 isn’t any exception. We’ll be seeing Guillermo del Toro’s new tackle Frankenstein and Nia DaCosta’s adaptation of the traditional play Hedda. Oscar winner Chloé Zhao has tailored Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, and Paul Thomas Anderson has a minimum of loosely based mostly his new movie, One Battle After Another, on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. In The Ballad of a Small Player, a 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, director Edward Berger will take us to the casinos in Macau, and Ben Shattuck’s The History of Sound, a group of interconnected tales set in New England, will remodel right into a love story starring Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal.
This summer time, the group at Little Gold Men will dive deep into a number of of those titles, discussing them on the podcast and predicting what the supply materials may imply for every respective movie adaptation. But we’d like your assist! Click here or vote beneath for the titles you’d just like the Little Gold Men group to learn for our annual summer time guide membership. We’ll announce the picks so you may learn together with us. Get these library playing cards prepared!
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