Elle USA - 09.2019

Three best-sellers

get the Hollywood treatment.

So, where to start?

YOUR

CHOICE

The Goldfinch (OCTOBER 11)

Few books over 800 pages have captured the

world’s imagination the way Donna Tartt’s

Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Goldfinch

did in 2013. Next month, Brooklyn director

John Crowley reimagines Theo Decker’s

art-world roguery for the big screen. Ansel

Elgort stars in the lead role, alongside Nicole

Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Luke Wilson.

Jojo Rabbit (OCTOBER 18)

Christine Leunens’s August novel Caging Skies

is a perfect fall read, but we can’t wait to see

director Taika Waititi’s much-buzzed-about

adaptation of this darkly satirical story. Waititi’s

Jojo Rabbit follows the novel’s Jojo, a Hitler

Youth member who discovers that his mother

(Scarlett Johansson) has been hiding a Jewish

girl in their attic.

Motherless Brooklyn (NOVEMBER 1)

If you haven’t read Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel

in which a lonely, lovable private eye with Tourette

syndrome sets out to solve his mentor’s murder, we

suggest you do so, stat. But don’t skip Edward Norton’s

sensitive, jazz-filled interpretation of it for the big screen,

his passion project since the late ’90s, but with wink-wink

references to the now, like the casting of Alec Baldwin

as a corrupt, unelected public official.—BK AND MG

hen famed YouTuber Lilly Singh announced

back in March during an interview with The

Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon that she’d be tak-

ing over NBC’s 1:35 a.m. slot, the camera panned for an

audience reaction. While most took the cue to applaud

enthusiastically, there were a few whose facial expres-

sions read, “Lilly who?” After all, if you’re not one of

her nearly 15 million subscribers, chances are good that

you’ve never heard of the Indian Canadian vlogger, who

started her IISuperwomanII channel in 2010 as a way

to battle crippling sadness. The 31-year-old comedienne

quickly rose to become one of the service’s highest-paid

stars (earning $10.5 million, Forbes reported in 2017).

This month, she joins a very exclusive club—only a hand-

ful of women have hosted a late-night show on a major

network—with the premiere of A Little Late With Lilly

Singh. Shortly after the news broke, Singh outlined her

plans (via YouTube, naturally) to hire a diverse writing

team to help build her show from scratch: “It’s going to

be sketch comedy; it’s going to be interviews; it’s going

to be a wild ride.”—MG

TV

THE NEW QUEEN OF

LATE NIGHT: LILLY SINGH

Fall Preview

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