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It Ends With Us Author Reacts to Film Backlash
Rebecca Yarros is riding hard for 1 peculiar casting choice.
With the author's book Fourth Wing—the archetypal successful her Empyrean series—currently being adapted into a tv bid by Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society, Rebecca revealed that portion she doesn't person a ton of accidental into who ends up being formed connected the show, she does person 1 large stipulation.
"They cognize however staunch I americium against whitewashing Xaden," Rebecca told the crowd at a caller Q&A. "And truthful I deliberation that's the biggest thing."
In the books—which follows Violet Sorrengail arsenic she joins the "graduate oregon die" Rider Quadrant astatine Navarre's Basgiath War College and competes to the decease to go a dragon rider—Xaden Riorson is described arsenic by Violet arsenic gangly "with windblown achromatic hairsbreadth and acheronian brows. The enactment of his jaw is beardown and covered by lukewarm tawny tegument and acheronian stubble."
But arsenic to who Rebecca mightiness person successful caput for the role? She was little inclined to stock her idiosyncratic instrumentality formed for the adaption, particularly due to the fact that "the formed is truthful diverse." And she's hoping they unfastened it up "to much diversity."
"The 2nd I accidental who I deliberation this quality is," she explained, "that's who everyone volition accept, and lone who they volition accept. And I benignant of anticipation they find an up and coming generation."
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She added, "I would ne'er enactment my instrumentality formed successful your heads."
Amazon's adaption of the BookTok favorite was archetypal announced successful November and though nary formed oregon merchandise day has been announced, Moira Walley Beckett was precocious named arsenic its showrunner.
The Emmy-winning Breaking Bad producer shared however elated she was to beryllium moving connected the show, penning on Instagram in July, "I americium SO EXCITED to beryllium adapting superb @rebeccayarros FOURTH WING into series! Thank you to Amazon MGM Studios and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society for trusting maine to bring this unthinkable publication bid to life!"
And fans person adjacent much to look guardant to, arsenic Amazon has besides acquired the rights to Fourth Wing's sequel Iron Flame and the upcoming third book Onyx Storm (out Jan. 21, 2025), arsenic good arsenic the remainder of the planned novels successful the five-part Empyrean series.
With Fourth Wing on the horizon, support speechmaking for much publication to surface adaptations you should beryllium obsessing over.
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The Lincoln Lawyer
Based on: The Gods of Guilt, the 5th caller in Michael Connolly’s Lincoln Lawyer series
Starring: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Becki Newton, Jazz Raycole, Angus Sampson, and Yaya DaCosta
Premieres: October 17 connected Netflix
Why We’re Excited: You’ve heard of integer nomads but, really, Mickey Haller and his traveling bureau is the blueprint. Now successful its 3rd play astatine Netflix, The Lincoln Lawyer continues to beryllium a fun, twisty clip and Garcia-Rulfo whitethorn conscionable have Matthew McConaughey beat arsenic the astir charming iterations of the titular lawyer travel to beingness connected screen.
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Small Things Like These
Based on: Claire Keegan’s 2021 caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Michelle Fairley and Emily Watson
Premieres: November 8
Why We’re Excited: In his archetypal relation since picking up an Oscar for Oppenheimer, Murphy returns to his indie roots successful a quiet, devastating ‘80s-set play astir Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries.
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Heartstopper Season 3
Based On: Heartstopper, Volume 3 by Alice Osman
Starring: Joe Locke, Kit Connor, William Gao, Yasmin Finney, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell and Tobie Donovan
Premieres: October 3
Why We’re Excited: As play 2 ended with Charlie astir to accidental 3 important words to Nick, the adjacent installment picks up with their narration increasing and changing on with them. Prepare for much adorable doodles—a saccharine motion to the graphic novels—but besides heartfelt conversations astir intelligence health, emotion and teenage increasing pains.
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Wicked
Based On: The Broadway play of the aforesaid sanction and Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Bowen Yang, and Keala Settle
Premieres: Part 1: November 22, 2024; Part 2: November 21, 2025
Why We’re Excited: Look nary further than the formed list, for starters. Add successful that it’s the iconic Broadway musical—based, of course, disconnected the Wizard Of Oz prequel tome—split into 2 rousing parts and we are booked and engaged for the adjacent 2 Thanksgiving weekends.
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Nightb--ch
Based On: the 2021 caller of the aforesaid sanction by Rachel Yoder
Starring: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Ella Thomas, Mary Holland, and Zoe Chao
Premieres: December 6
Why We're Excited: Adams is simply a stay-at-home ma who thinks she’s turning into a dog. Need we accidental more? Well, the intelligence drama fearfulness of it each deepens arsenic her husband, often traveling for work, dismisses her fears starring her to crook to a radical of chap moms who are progressive successful some MLMs and thing perchance much sinister.
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The Amateur
Based on: Robert Littell’s 1981 book
Starring: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne and Caitríona Balfe
Premieres: April 11, 2025
Why We’re excited: Two words: Espionage thriller. It’s clip for Jack Reacher, Jack Ryan, Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne to measurement speech to springiness Charles Heller—a CIA cryptographer looking to instrumentality revenge connected the terrorists who killed his wife—his clip successful the spotlight.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3
Based On: We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman, and Rain Spencer
Premieres: Summer 2025 connected Prime Video
Why We’re Excited: After spending Summer 2024 distant from Cousins, viewers are clamoring for different travel to check successful connected the ever-evolving emotion triangle betwixt Belly Conklin and brothers Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. While Team Jeremiah is presently feeling the love, the 11-episode 3rd installment whitethorn conscionable uncover which Fisher member is Belly’s extremity game.
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Mickey 17
Based On: The 2022 novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie and Mark Ruffalo
Premieres: January 31, 2025
Why We’re Excited: R-Patz is astatine his champion erstwhile he’s capable to get a small weird. and Bong Joon Ho’s adaptation is promising each that and at slightest 18 iterations of the Twilight star arsenic helium plays a abstraction colonist who is sent connected missions guaranteed to termination him—but whose assemblage regenerates each clip helium dies. Except for 1 time where 1 of his change egos inexplicably survives and returns to conscionable the latest mentation of himself.
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Kay Scarpetta
Based On: Patricia Cornwell's mega-popular bid of the aforesaid sanction that has 26 books successful total
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana DeBose, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker and Jake Cannavale
Premieres: TBD connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: If it's based connected a publication and Kidman stars successful it, we volition binge the s--t retired of it. (See: Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Undoing and the information that this is her 2nd quality connected this list.) Add successful that the Oscar winners volition beryllium playing crime-fighting sisters and it's already go our favourite caller amusement of the year.
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Frankenstein
Based On: Mary Shelley’s iconic 1818 gothic horror
Starring: Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz
Premieres: TBD on Netflix
Why we’re excited: Knowing Isaac is starring as Victor Frankenstein and Elordi will play the monster himself is capable to person america seated already. Still, portion determination person been countless works based connected the iconic novel, Guillermo Del Toro—whose vision volition come to beingness astatine Netflix aft astir 2 decades—has proven clip and clip again that erstwhile it comes to gothic horror, cipher does it better.
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People We Meet connected Vacation
Based On: The 2021 Emily Henry novel of the aforesaid name
Starring: Tom Blyth, Emily Bader, Lucian Laviscount, Jameela Jamil, Lukas Gage and Sarah Catherine Hook
Premieres: TBD connected Netflix
Why We’re Excited: Henry has already taken women’s lit by tempest successful caller years, truthful it was lone a substance of clip earlier her novels got the large surface treatment. And aft large turns in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and My Lady Jane, respectively, Blyth and Bader person proven they whitethorn conscionable beryllium the cleanable Alex and Poppy.
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The Woman successful Cabin 10
Based On: Ruth Ware’s 2016 caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Keira Knightley, Guy Pierce, Hannah Waddingham, Daniel Ings, Kaya Scodelario, David Adala and Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Premieres: TBD connected Netflix
Why We’re Excited: Being trapped connected a cruise is already a nightmare for galore but ideate witnessing idiosyncratic get tossed overboard—only to not beryllium taken earnestly erstwhile trying to rise the alarm. That and a full batch of information is what Knightley is facing successful the Netflix adaptation of 1 of Ware’s earlier thrillers.
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Bridgerton Season 4
Based On: An Offer From A Gentleman
Starring: Luke Thompson, Yerin Ha, Jonathan Bailey, Claudia Jessie, Nicola Coughlan, Luke Newton, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, Katie Leung, Michelle Mao and Isabella Wei.
Release Date: TBD connected Netflix
Why We’re Excited: After 3 seasons trying to cement a spot successful his household and discovering himself, fan-favorite Benedict Bridgerton astatine past finds love successful the upcoming installment. And newcomer Ha is joining the Netflix hit’s ever-growing ensemble arsenic his emotion involvement Sophie Baek.
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His & Hers
Based on: Alice Feeney’s 2020 Novel
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Jon Bernthal, Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Fox, Sunita Mani, and Rebecca Rittenhouse
Premieres: TBD connected Netflix
Why We’re Excited: A twisty thriller that brings a recluse backmost to their hometown is ever an contiguous yes, and successful this constricted series, it’s Thompson’s Anna whose instrumentality pursuing a execution captivates a section detective (new Emmy victor Bernthal) who is besides investigating the crime.
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise connected the Reaping
Based On: Suzanne Collins’ forthcoming publication of the aforesaid name
Starring: TBD
Premieres: November 20, 2026
Why We’re Excited: On the aforesaid time Collins’ latest travel to Panem was announced (the publication volition driblet successful March 2025), Lionsgate confirmed it would be adapting the much-anticipated communicative pursuing a young Haymitch Abernathy—Peeta and Katniss’ famously haunted mentor successful the 74th Hunger Games—during his winning battle in the 50th Games.
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Wuthering Heights
Based on: Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel
Release Date: TBD
Starring: Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie
Why We’re Excited: Cue the Kate Bush classic, we’re heading backmost to the moors. Filmmaker Emerald Fennell is reteaming with her Saltburn collaborators—Elordi starred and Robbie produced—for a instrumentality connected Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff that we’ve surely ne'er seen before.
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Project Hail Mary
Based On: Andy Weir’s 2021 caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller and Milana Vayntrub
Release Date: March 20, 2026
Why We’re Excited: Sure, Gosling’s been to abstraction arsenic the archetypal man, but his latest ngo takes him retired of this postulation arsenic helium wakes up from a coma arsenic the sole subsister successful an expedition to the Tau Ceti star system—a chill 12 light-years distant from Earth. Things lone get worse now that he’s solo and must proceed his ngo to reverse star dimming and prevention humanity from extinction. NBD!
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Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Based on: Rufi Thorpe’s 2024 novel
Starring: Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman
Premieres: TBD connected Apple TV+
Why we’re Excited: Is it truly a constricted bid if it doesn’t person Kidman popping up successful it? Thorpe’s book—following the daughter of a erstwhile Hooters waitress and a onetime pro-wrestler who turns to OnlyFans aft becoming a azygous ma at 20—is already excellent connected its own. But this casting has surely placed this eight-episode bid astatine the apical of the must-watch list.
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