It looks, from this link, like Gwynnie owns it and wants to play the lead (Camille, I think) and wants her brother to direct.
Right. Sir. Honey.
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Daisy Jane - Jan 14, 2011 8:30:31 am PST #12778 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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.
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2011 10:04:45 am PST #12785 of 30000
hwæt
Catcher seems pretty darned unfilmable, too.
Daisy Jane - Jan 14, 2011 10:09:13 am PST #12786 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I couldn't imagine how anyone could film Catch-22, and yet they did, and I liked it.
JZ - Jan 14, 2011 10:34:55 am PST #12787 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 dunno. Jumping from therapy sessions to a WWII massacre, recounted in horrifying detail, to an afterlife that plays off of the wedding feast at Cana. Rape and terror porn, the horrors of the Holocaust as the vehicle for one person's enlightenment, Freudian RPF (actual Freudian, with Freud) and a hearty helping of woo.
Not that I hated it, because I didn't, but I can't think of any way to translate it into film that wouldn't turn any or all of the above into a whole lot of fail.
Wikipedia says that one of the attempts to film it was by David Lynch working with Isabella Rossellini, and I can kind of just barely see that, if I squint; but even so, it's a very "Yes, indeed, that failure would have been a less ghastly failure than the other failures" squint.
Catcher at least has a nice distinctive narrative voice and a ton of vivid episodes, and Catch-22 has some screamingly comic and horrifying dialogue that would be just fun to hear gifted actors doing. But The White Hotel? I... just... no. I might possibly see Lynch's version, or Guy Maddin's, if such a thing ever came to exist; but even so I'd do it out of obligation. Much good as there is in the novel, there's nothing in it that would make me want to see it as a film.