Read It First! Movie Adaptations in Theaters This Month

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Collage of films and their adapted books

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a million times—the book was better! There's nothing like debating the differences between a favorite book and its translation to the screen. But if you don't know your beloved series is coming out as a movie or that the fun-looking preview you saw was adapted from a book, how can you join the debate? The Library is here to the rescue! Here, we will be exploring the movie adaptations soon to hit screens big and small, and give you the chance to read before you view.

Coming This February

Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones is a coming-of-age novella set in 1970s London in which a young man discovers his sexuality through an intense and conflicting dominant-submissive relationship with an older biker. Starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, the film adaptation, titled Pilion, will be released in theaters on February 6, 2026.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Brontë’s classic tale of tempestuous love and passionate revenge gets another cinematic adaptation. When orphaned Heathcliff and wealthy Catherine fall into a deep, obsessive love, Victorian social norms frown upon their relationship. After Catherine marries another, a bitter and enraged Heathcliff plots revenge upon her entire family. The film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi will be released in theaters on February 13, 2026.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights was the only novel published by Emily Brontë. Though now considered a timeless classic, it baffled and scandalized critics upon publication and was viewed as a cruel and brutal tale of passion. When Mr. Earnshaw brings home a young orphan named Heathcliff, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that wreaks tragedy upon his home. Heathcliff is raised among the Earnshaw children, Catherine and Hindley, but he is not treated as their equal. Ridiculed and beaten by Hindley, loved but rejected by Catherine, Heathcliff vows revenge upon the whole family. Brontë’s powerful novel challenged contemporary views of morality, class biases and women’s social status. Watch a startlingly young Timothy Dalton in the 1970 film version or catch Tom Hardy before he made it big in the 2009 television miniseries.