YA Novel Adaptation 'The Hate U Give' Lands Fall Release Date

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Amandla Stenberg

The activist-minded film will open opposite 'Mowgli' and 'Halloween' in October.

The big-screen adaptation of Angie Thomas' 2017 best-seller The Hate U Give has landed a fall release date.

Fox on Wednesday announced that the George Tillman Jr.-directed film will open Oct. 19, opposite Andy Serkis vehicle Mowgli, the latest Halloween movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and fellow book adaptation Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, the screen version of Maria Semple's popular 2012 novel.

Audrey Wells (Under the Tuscan Sun, A Dog's Purpose) is writing the screenplay, which follows a prep school student who turns to activism after she witnesses the shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer......

Amandla Stenberg (Everything, Everything; The Hunger Games) is set to play the protagonist, Starr, while Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Common, Anthony Mackie, Issa Rae, KJ Apa and Algee Smith have also signed on to play key characters........

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