The month of August finds us on the precipice of the prestige movie season, so what better subject for this month’s Literature for Life than the movies? This month, we’re taking a look at four books that are going to be hitting the big screen this year. Now is the perfect time to catch up and be able to tell your friends “That scene was so much better in the book”.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Being adapted for the screen by director David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck,Gone Girl took the literary world by storm with its twisting narrative, chilling details and unreliable narrators as the reader tries to unravel a tale of a wife gone missing.
The Giver by Lois Lowry The classic young adult novel is coming to life in a film with Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Taylor Swift, filmed in both black and white and color to keep true to the original text. In a futuristic dystopia robbed of all color and emotion, one person is charged with being “The Giver” who carries all of the joys and burdens of being truly human.
A Brief History of Time by Dr. Stephen Hawking Admittedly, it’s not this book itself being adapted for the screen (that was done, and is available on Criterion Blu-Ray) but the life of it’s author, with Eddie Redmayne playing the acclaimed physicist. Though considering the work from which that film draws it’s title, The Theory of Everything, is an unofficial release which compiled old lectures and chapters of A Brief History of Time, best stick with the authorized text, in which Hawking brilliantly explains physics for the rest of us.
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon It’s fitting for a director of indescribable talent (P.T. Anderson) to take on a novel that’s utterly indescribable. Thomas Pynchon is known for his dense, complex post-modern literary style, and such is the case with this neo-noir about a pot smoking detective named Doc Sportello dealing with a former flame, the LAPD and the tumultuous late 60’s.
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