Pop culture news for readers: November 6, 2026

Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ... 

Movie ADAPTATIONS

• Filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer's novel Hollow will be published next year, and she's already tapped to direct and adapt it into a movie starring Sydney Sweeney and, perhaps, Nicholas Galitzine; Hollow reimagines Washington Irving's classic short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (Deadline).

TV ADAPTATIONS

• The Australian bestseller The Work, by Bri Lee, is being adapted into a TV series (Deadline).

• TV rights for Dervla McTiernan's bestselling psychological thriller novel Three Reasons For Revenge have been picked up (Deadline).

• Author Wendy Webb's various ghost story novels are being adapted into one TV show called The Invited; the seasons will link her works into one world, beginning with The End of Temperance Dare as season one (Deadline).

• More cast members have been announced for an eight-episode adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Variety).

• Season two of Prime Video's Off Campus TV series, based on Elle Kennedy's novels, will premiere April 28; this season is based on the third novel, The Score (The Hollywood Reporter).

Other ADAPTATIONS

• Derek Klena, a pitcher and singer for the Savannah Bananas, will return to Broadway as the title character of The Great Gatsby this winter, coinciding with the Bananas' off-season (Deadline).

• A new batch of Funko Pop! figurines inspired by Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses series can be preordered now for a January 10 release (Variety).

POLITICS AND COURTROOMS 

• Fans of Red, White & Royal Blue, the novel by Casey McQuiston and the basis for a film adaptation, say the story foretold the historic flip of a Texas US Senate seat from Republican to Democrat (Deadline).

• Transgender rights protesters showed up outside the new flagship Harry Potter store in London, to make their opposition to author J.K. Rowling's anti-trans views known (Variety).

• An appeals court has cleared the way for Michael Crichton's widow to pursue a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Television, over similarities between its new show The Pitt and the older show ER, which the late author helped create (Variety).