Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer for director Brian Percival's (TV's Downton Abbey) latest project, The Book Thief (2013), starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, and Sophie Nelisse. The film is set to arrive in theaters across the United States on November 15th.
The 550-page, World War II-era novel, narrated by Death, tells the story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken at age 9 to live with a foster family in a German working-class neighborhood. Liesel arrives having just stolen her first book, "The Gravediggers Handbook" -- it will be the beginning of a love affair with books.