This year, a series of brilliant film adaptations await us: from Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey,” which promises to be the summer’s main blockbuster, to as many as two films based on Jane Austen’s novels. Read about the main film adaptations until the end of the year below.
“Odyssey”
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The most anticipated film of this summer is Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the ancient Greek epic “Odyssey.” The platinum cast is impressive: Matt Damon in the title role of Odysseus, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Zendaya as Athena, and Anne Hathaway as Penelope. The film was shot over nearly ten years in various corners of the world, from Greece to Latin America, with a budget of approximately 250 million US dollars – it is the most expensive picture in the career of the Oscar-winning director.
Moreover, “Odyssey” will be the first commercial feature film entirely shot on IMAX film cameras – the total length of the film shot has already reached 609 kilometers. This was made possible after Nolan persuaded the company to create completely new, sufficiently quiet cameras for recording dialogues. In cinemas from July 16.
“Klara and the Sun”
Klara (Jenna Ortega) is an unusual girl: she is a robot, an artificial friend who exists to alleviate the loneliness of those she lives with. Klara is an old-generation robot, and she doesn’t have many chances to find a master. One day in the store, while Klara is in the window, a girl named Josie (Mia Goth) chooses her, and a special bond immediately forms between them. Josie has a difficult relationship with her mother (Amy Adams), and their family is haunted by the pain of loss. But Klara’s sincerity, curiosity, and boundless devotion gradually help heal the family’s wounds and fill Josie’s world with hope and light.
“Klara and the Sun” was released in 2021, made it to The New York Times bestseller list, and was included in the longlist for the Booker Prize. We will see it on the big screen on October 22.
“Sense and Sensibility”
“Sense and Sensibility” is the first novel by the English writer Jane Austen, published in 1811. The novel tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, 19-year-old Elinor and 16-year-old Marianne: the former, intelligent and restrained, embodies sense and reason, while the latter embodies romanticism and sensibility.
27-year-old Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of the series “Normal People” and the film “Where the Crawdads Sing,” will play the elder sister, Elinor Dashwood, in the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Well, embodying the role of Elinor Dashwood, one of Jane Austen’s most beloved heroines, previously played on the big screen by two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson, is a real challenge. The film will be released in cinemas this autumn.
“The Dog Star”
Jacob Elordi, one of the leading actors of the new generation of Hollywood, plays the main role in Ridley Scott’s new film. “The Dog Star” tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, along with survival specialist Bengli, has set up an effective but isolated shelter in a brutal post-apocalyptic world. Everything changes when a mysterious radio signal prompts Hig to venture into the unknown in search of hope and humanity, the existence of which he still believes in.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Heller, a master of adventure fiction, published in 2012. The book was shortlisted for the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 in the Readers’ Favorite Fiction category and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
“Pride and Prejudice”
Netflix is working on a new adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” the iconic novel by Jane Austen, with British stars Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet and Olivia Colman as the family matriarch, Mrs. Bennet, playing the leading roles.
Recall that “Pride and Prejudice” is a novel by Jane Austen from 1813, which tells about the passionate and complex relationship between the wealthy aristocrat Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a provincial landowner, and depicts the life of English aristocrats in the 19th century. The novel has been adapted for the screen at least 17 times.