Film Adaptation

Martin Scorsese has added Welker White to the cast of his upcoming Apple Studios film 'What Happens at Night'. White, a frequent collaborator with Scorsese, joins leads Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.

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The 98th Academy Awards on March 15, 2026, celebrated adaptations with Paul Thomas Anderson's action comedy One Battle After Another—loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Vineland—winning six Oscars: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Directing, Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Editing, and inaugural Best Casting. Other literary adaptations shone, including Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

The long-awaited film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel Artemis is still actively in development, eight years after its initial announcement. Directors Chris Miller and Phil Lord have provided an update, stating they have figured out a way forward. This project, based on the bestseller by the author of The Martian, continues to progress.

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The film version of Courtney Summers's young adult novel This Is Not a Test will premiere in Canadian theatres on February 27, 2026. Directed by Adam MacDonald, it follows teenagers surviving a zombie apocalypse while barricaded in their high school. This marks the first screen adaptation of Summers's work, which has earned her multiple awards.

Emerald Fennell has announced her adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, reteaming with Jacob Elordi from Saltburn. The film stars Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and arrives in theaters on February 13, 2026, distributed by Warner Bros. It has sparked backlash over the casting of Elordi as Heathcliff due to the character’s ambiguous ethnicity in the novel.

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Emerald Fennell's new film adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the tragic lovers Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, emphasizing eroticism over restraint. The R-rated movie reimagines the classic novel with operatic intensity, drawing comparisons to the director's previous work Saltburn. Reviewed in Los Angeles ahead of its Warner Bros. release, the film runs 136 minutes and features songs by Charli xcx.