Interesting list, DJ. Isn't an adaptation of On the Road coming out soon, though?
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
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Amy - Jan 14, 2011 8:20:26 am PST #12775 of 30000
Because books.
Daisy Jane - Jan 14, 2011 8:24:49 am PST #12776 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think I heard that, and there's mention of it in the comments. Mostly I'm pissed at GP for The Secret History and whoever for Confederacy of Dunces.
No lie, every once in a while I will get a real bug up my skirt about TSH and will go in search of news, and when it once again turns out it's not being made I am annoyed.
Amy - Jan 14, 2011 8:27:47 am PST #12777 of 30000
Because books.
It was such a great book, it is surprising it hasn't gotten made into a film yet.
Daisy Jane - Jan 14, 2011 8:30:31 am PST #12778 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It looks, from this link, like Gwynnie owns it and wants to play the lead (Camille, I think) and wants her brother to direct.
megan walker - Jan 14, 2011 9:00:52 am PST #12779 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm most pissed about The Alienist.
Too gruesome? Really? Compared to what? Sense and Sensibility?
Jon B. - Jan 14, 2011 9:22:57 am PST #12780 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Might as well put this in here. 20 greatest movies Hollywood never made
#2 made me double-check the date on the article. Nope, it's new. Odd use of tense.
DavidS - Jan 14, 2011 9:26:43 am PST #12781 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
20 greatest movies Hollywood never made [link]
A Princess of Mars is being made by Andrew Stanton of Pixar. I think under the title, John Carter of Mars, though.
Jon B. - Jan 14, 2011 9:32:52 am PST #12782 of 30000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I just noticed some comments on that article posted back in May. But the article itself was posted last month?? Temporal anomaly?
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2011 9:34:22 am PST #12783 of 30000
hwæt
JZ - Jan 14, 2011 10:01:11 am PST #12784 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I've read The White Hotel three or four times (for a college course) and have enormous respect for it, but it took a lot of work to get to that place. And I seriously cannot imagine anyone turning it into an even remotely coherent screenplay, let alone a finished film.
Really, truly -- now I'm racking my brains and scanning back over the who-knows-how-many-thousands of pieces of long and short fiction I've read so far in my life, and TWH is right there in the top three most unfilmable of any of them.