We’ve got some great news for fans of THE BOOK THIEF. The novel by Markus Zusak is being turned into a movie and casting news is already being released!
THE BOOK THIEF follows Liesel Meminger, a young girl who is living in Germany during World War II. The story starts when Liesel is nine years old and is taken to live with a foster family. Liesel starts to seek comfort in all the books she steals and shares the stories with others.
Casting calls had gone out all across the United States and Europe to find the girl needed to star in THE BOOK THIEF. Sophie Nelisse, a 12-year-old French-Canadian actress, who also starred in the Oscar-nominated foreign film, Monsieur Lazhar, was the girl who snagged the role! Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson also landed roles as the foster parents in the film!
Many fans are pleased with the current outcome of casting and are also glad that the flim’s plot will closely follow the book’s original storyline.
Will you be heading to the theaters when the film adaptation of THE BOOK THIEF is released in 2014? Let us know in the comments below!