The first trailer for Fox’s adaptation of The Book Thief debuted online last month, and the studio has quickly followed it up with the first poster, which reveals the young Sophie Nélisse front and centre as Liesel.
The WWII-set drama is set to arrive in US cinemas this autumn/fall, ahead of its release in the UK early next year.
Based on the beloved international bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the story of Liesel, an extraordinary and courageous young girl sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany. She learns to read with encouragement from her new family and Max, a Jewish refugee who they are hiding under the stairs. For Liesel and Max, the power of words and imagination become the only escape from the tumultuous events happening around them. The Book Thief is a life-affirming story of survival and of the resilience of the human spirit.
Nélisse, who made her debut in the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar, stars alongside Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, Nico Liersch, Joachim Paul Assböck, Sandra Nedeleff, and Hildegard Schroedter.
Emmy Award-winning director Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) makes his sophomore feature in the director’s chair, with Michael Petroni (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) adapting Markus Zusak’s original bestselling novel of the same name.
The Book Thief will be released in the US on November 15th, with its UK release date set for 31st January, 2014. For now, here’s the UK variant of the first poster (with the US version simply replacing ‘January’ for ‘November’).
