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Dramas based on real-life stories are among the season&rsquo;s most prominent offerings, including &ldquo;Killers of the Flower Moon&rdquo; (opening on Oct. 6), directed by Martin Scorsese and based on a book by David Grann, of The New Yorker. The film is centered on the discovery of oil by members of the Osage Nation, in Oklahoma, and the murder of Osage people, in the nineteen-twenties, by white Oklahomans who sought to control the resulting wealth. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, and Tantoo Cardinal star. &ldquo;Priscilla&rdquo; (Oct. 27), directed by Sofia Coppola, is a bio-pic about Priscilla Presley, based on her autobiography and starring Cailee Spaeny in the title role and Jacob Elordi as Elvis. &ldquo;Cassandro&rdquo; (Sept.&nbsp; 15) is a biographical drama about Sa&uacute;l Armend&aacute;riz, who was one of Mexico&rsquo;s first openly gay wrestlers (he was the subject of the 2018 documentary &ldquo;Cassandro, the Exotico!&rdquo;); Gael Garc&iacute;a Bernal stars, and Roger Ross Williams directed. The social-media-fuelled buying frenzy for GameStop stock, in January, 2021, which resulted in a Wall Street crisis, is fictionalized in&nbsp;&ldquo;Dumb Money&rdquo; (Sept.&nbsp;15), directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Paul Dano, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera, and Seth Rogen.
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Fantasy, a cinematic staple, is on display in many varieties. Wes Anderson&rsquo;s latest film, &ldquo;The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar&rdquo; (Netflix; Oct. 13), is a thirty-seven-minute adaptation of a story by Roald Dahl, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a man whose life is changed when he acquires supernatural powers of vision and clairvoyance; Ralph Fiennes plays Dahl. In Gareth Edwards&rsquo;s thriller &ldquo;The Creator&rdquo; (Sept.&nbsp;29), a former Special Forces operative ( John David Washington) must track and catch a mysterious inventor whose weaponized version of A.I. can destroy the world. Timoth&eacute;e Chalamet returns to play the hero Paul Atreides, who&rsquo;s on a quest for vengeance in &ldquo;Dune: Part Two&rdquo; (Nov. 3), directed by Denis Villeneuve; Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, and Josh Brolin co-star.
The season&rsquo;s family stories are headed by &ldquo;My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3&rdquo; (Sept.&nbsp;8), involving a reunion in Greece; Nia Vardalos directed, wrote the script, and stars; John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, and Andrea Martin are among the costars. Justine Triet&rsquo;s courtroom thriller, &ldquo;Anatomy of a Fall&rdquo; (Oct. 13), which won the Golden Palm at this year&rsquo;s Cannes&nbsp;Film Festival, stars Sandra H&uuml;ller as a German writer in France who is accused of murdering her husband (Samuel Theis) and seeks to establish her innocence at trial.&nbsp;&ldquo;The Persian Version&rdquo; (Oct.&nbsp;13), directed by Maryam Keshavarz, is the tale of an Iranian American filmmaker named Leila (Layla Mohammadi), whose conflicts with her mother (Niousha Noor) are elucidated by flashbacks to the family&rsquo;s earlier life in Iran, going back to the nineteen-sixties; Bella Warda plays Leila&rsquo;s grandmother.
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Among the fall movies that give artistic lives and intellectual callings a workout is &ldquo;American Fiction&rdquo; (Nov. 3), the writer and director Cord Jefferson&rsquo;s adaptation of Percival Everett&rsquo;s novel &ldquo;Erasure,&rdquo; starring Jeffrey Wright as a professor of English who&rsquo;s at odds with prevailing literary culture and provokes a scandal by writing a satirical novel; Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander, and Leslie Uggams co-star. Alexander Payne&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Holdovers&rdquo; (Nov. 10) is set in 1970, at a New England boarding school where a fussy and pompous teacher (Paul Giamatti) stays behind over Christmas break to supervise students who are unable to go home. In the Bronx-based drama &ldquo;Story Ave.&rdquo; (Oct.&nbsp;6), the first feature directed by Aristotle Torres, an aspiring graffiti artist (Asante Blackk) and an M.T.A. worker (Luis Guzm&aacute;n) form a crucial bond.
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