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Streaming Guide Fall 2022: What to Watch connected Netflix, HBO Max & More
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is saying "I Do" to a director.
Leslye Headland will nonstop the movie adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling caller of the aforesaid name, Netflix confirmed successful a property merchandise June 29.
Headland has antecedently teamed with Netflix arsenic the co-creator and the manager of Russian Doll, which starred Natasha Lyonne. The director, who antecedently helmed the 2012 drama Bachelorette and 2015 rom-com Sleeping with Other People, is also down the upcoming Star Wars TV series, The Acolyte.
Liz Tigelaar has besides joined the task arsenic its writer. And she's nary alien to adapting best-selling books arsenic she was previously showrunner for the caller Tiny Beautiful Things bid arsenic good as Little Fires Everywhere.
And successful summation to confirming the large originative voices behind Evelyn Hugo, a BookTok phenomenon, Netflix besides teased what to expect from the adaptation.
"In a agelong awaited interrogation with a young journalist, Evelyn Hugo, an aging Hollywood starlet, pulls backmost the curtain connected her 7 marriages," the film's synopsis reads, "and arsenic she tells tales of Hollywood scandals, betrayals, and woe, she unveils shocking truths astir her ain beingness and the lives of everyone astir her."
While nary actors person yet to beryllium attached to the project, that hasn't stopped fans from creating a imagination formed of their own. In particularly, societal media users person rallied around Jessica Chastain playing Celia St. James, a redhead Golden Age prima who plays a important relation successful Evelyn's life.
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"I bash cognize determination is an online happening astir it," Jessica said of the instrumentality question connected Watch What Happens Live successful January. "Sure, nonstop maine a script."
And Evelyn Hugo isn't the lone publication getting the Hollywood treatment. Keep scrolling to spot which different novels you should work earlier they're adapted for the screen.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2
Based On: It's Not Summer Without You, the 2nd publication in Jenny Han's beloved young big trilogy
Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman and Rain Spencer
Premieres: July 14 on Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Like Belly (Tung), we've been counting down the days 'til summertime each twelvemonth arsenic we awaited our instrumentality to Cousins Beach to find retired what happened betwixt her and the Fisher brothers—our existent favourite emotion triangle connected TV!—as good arsenic get a much-needed update connected however Susannah (Rachel Blanchard) is handling her crab battle.
Han teased that fans should expect major differences betwixt the 2010 publication and the upcoming season. "There's ever gonna beryllium changes present and there," the showrunner told E! News successful December. "So I conjecture you'll conscionable person to hold and see."
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It Ends With Us
Based On: Colleen Hoover's 2016 bestselling caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj
Premieres: TBD
Why We're Excited: Two words: Blake Lively. Two much words: Colleen Hoover. What much bash we request to say? Alright fine: Prepare for popular culture's adjacent large emotion triangle arsenic the movie is bringing to beingness the romance play centering connected beauteous florist Lily (Lively), neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni, who is besides directing) and Lily's high schoolhouse emotion Atlas Corrigan (Sklenar).
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Based On: Casey McQuiston's 2019 caller of the aforesaid name.
Starring: Nicholas Galitzine, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Uma Thurman, Sarah Shahi, Stephen Fry and Rachel Hilson
Premieres: Aug. 11 connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Make definite you have your A.C. connected afloat blast earlier speechmaking oregon watching McQuiston's steamy secret romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez), the lad of the President of the United States, and Britain's Prince Henry (Galitzine). Trust us, relations betwixt the U.S. and the British person ne'er been hotter.
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Lessons successful Chemistry
Based On: Bonnie Garmus' 2022 caller of the aforesaid name.
Starring: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Stephanie Koenig, Aja Naomi King, Thomas Mann and Beau Bridges
Premieres: Oct. 13 connected Apple TV+
Why We're Excited: In the 1950s-set series, Larson plays Elizabeth Zott, an aspiring idiosyncratic whose ambitions are enactment connected clasp successful a society that insists women beryllium successful the home sphere. After she finds herself pregnant, a hopeless Elizabeth accepts a occupation arsenic a big connected a TV cooking show, which she turns into an opportunity to animate overlooked housewives to alteration the presumption quo. This gyration truly volition beryllium televised.
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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 and Jamie Lee Curtis
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 and The Undoing.) Add successful the information that the Oscar victor and Curtis—who bought the Kay Scarpetta publication rights backmost successful June 2021—will beryllium playing crime-fighting sisters and it's already go our favourite caller amusement of the year.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Based On: The Lightning Thief, the archetypal publication the beloved phantasy series written by Rick Riordan
Starring: Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri, Leah Sava Jeffries, Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally and Timm Sharp
Premieres: Early 2024 connected Disney+
Why We're Excited: Confession: While we loved the movie franchise that starred Logan Lerman, we bash deliberation the root worldly is amended suited for the TV treatment and we're truthful blessed to beryllium re-enrolling astatine Camp Half-Blood for much teen deity drama. Plus, Lin-Manuel Miranda is guest-starring arsenic Hermes and we privation to beryllium in on the streaming work wherever that happens.
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Three Women
Based On: The non-fiction bestseller of the aforesaid sanction by Lisa Taddeo.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Gabrielle Creevy, Blair Underwood and Sean Meehan
Premieres: TBA on Starz
Why We're Excited: One of the astir applicable books of 2019, the bid volition research pistillate tendency arsenic it follows a trio of women who are connected a clang people to radically overturn their lives. While Showtime initially canceled the amusement contempt accumulation already being completed, Starz swooped in, answering our literate conflict cry.
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