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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.
It was such a great book, it is surprising it hasn't gotten made into a film yet.
It looks, from this link, like Gwynnie owns it and wants to play the lead (Camille, I think) and wants her brother to direct.
I'm most pissed about The Alienist.
Too gruesome? Really? Compared to what? Sense and Sensibility?
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.
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.
I just noticed some comments on that article posted back in May. But the article itself was posted last month?? Temporal anomaly?
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.
Catcher seems pretty darned unfilmable, too.