book to movie adaptations

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#15
October 03, 2003, 02:20:20 AM
Seeing as I loved Wonder Boys so much I'm eager to hear more about the adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay. I'm sure it would make a fantastic movie. Last I read, Chabon wasn't happy with the first screenplay and so set to work to write one himself?
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#16
October 03, 2003, 02:25:10 AM
No, he actually wrote the first draft himself. A few script reviews popped up online about a year ago...they were decidedly mixed. I think the story is too huge to be successfully adapted, but I hope I'm proven wrong. Sydney Pollack was originally going to direct, and then Stephen Daldry became attached.

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#17
October 03, 2003, 09:54:00 AM
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetMy own personal dream project of book adaptation would be Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, a horror novel. Kubrick had interest in it and almost did it. I'm glad he didn't. The little of theme that is in the novel, does fit Kubrick's repetoire of interests in movies, this an outsider being disguised as something else in order to fit into a world. My fear would be that Kubrick would propel this to dominate the entire movie. It would miss oportunities of what can be accomplished in the novel and cliche for him.

Actually, Kubrick never had interest in directing it, it was Patrick Suskind who wanted only Kubrick to make his novel into a film, and even his family encourage him to do it but he unfortunately never did. There's no doubt in my mind that he would have done an amazing film with it, as he did with everyone of his films.

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#18
October 03, 2003, 11:31:12 AM
Quote from: ®edlumSeeing as I loved Wonder Boys so much I'm eager to hear more about the adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay. I'm sure it would make a fantastic movie.

Hear, hear!

Daldry would be... okay, I guess. I would love to see Curtis Hanson do it. He did so well with Wonder Boys, and L.A. Confidential proved that he can do period, so... A lot of it would be in the casting, too.
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#19
October 03, 2003, 12:42:47 PM
Back when Pollack was on board, Jude Law and Ben Stiller were the frontrunners. I'd personally like to see Adrien Brody and...someone else.

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#20
October 03, 2003, 01:06:49 PM
Hmm I can see Jude Law, but Ben Stiller is too well built for Clay.

If this was made as a film, (aslong as they dont screw with it) it would be so diverse. It would make such an amazing film. Look at all the different sections, The Escape from Prague, The Boyhood comic book dream, the Romance between Rosa and Jo, Bacon and Clay, The War, Joes brother, Joe flying over to kill that scientist and the whole part in the air hanger, and then the whole two fathers ending.

I dont see why it couldnt be done. Volume 1 & 2?
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  -  George Lucas

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#21
October 03, 2003, 01:12:46 PM
I loved both the book and the film for The Thin Red Line, definatly a must read and the film stays pretty faithful to it also.

High Fidelity was great also, loved how they used most of the funniest lines in the book during the times John is talking to the camera, i was afraid they would not use them.

godardian

#22
October 03, 2003, 02:11:39 PM
Quote from: GhostboyBack when Pollack was on board, Jude Law and Ben Stiller were the frontrunners. I'd personally like to see Adrien Brody and...someone else.

Law as Joe and Ben as Sam? That could work... I bet Stiller could do introversion if given a chance. He would really need to be directed to settle down, though. The other way around, I'm not sure if that would work so well. Physically, they could both be right, and they both can be good actors.

There are definitely other possibilities, though. Brody would be great if you're thinking of him as Joe, 'cept it would be awfully close to what he did in The Piano, at least for a significant stretch...
""Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am." - Morrissey

"Lacan stressed more and more in his work the power and organizing principle of the symbolic, understood as the networks, social, cultural, and linguistic, into which a child is born. These precede the birth of a child, which is why Lacan can say that language is there from before the actual moment of birth. It is there in the social structures which are at play in the family and, of course, in the ideals, goals, and histories of the parents. This world of language can hardly be grasped by the newborn and yet it will act on the whole of the child's existence."

Stay informed on protecting your freedom of speech and civil rights.

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#23
October 03, 2003, 02:46:14 PM
Quote from: Fernando
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetMy own personal dream project of book adaptation would be Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, a horror novel. Kubrick had interest in it and almost did it. I'm glad he didn't. The little of theme that is in the novel, does fit Kubrick's repetoire of interests in movies, this an outsider being disguised as something else in order to fit into a world. My fear would be that Kubrick would propel this to dominate the entire movie. It would miss oportunities of what can be accomplished in the novel and cliche for him.

Actually, Kubrick never had interest in directing it, it was Patrick Suskind who wanted only Kubrick to make his novel into a film, and even his family encourage him to do it but he unfortunately never did. There's no doubt in my mind that he would have done an amazing film with it, as he did with everyone of his films.

Perfume is one of my favourite books ever! But i never heard about any connection with Kubrick till now....in fact , I always knew Süskind never wanted his books  to become movies and being honest I didn't wanna to see as a film as well...it is  richly described in a way that i still cannot imagine transformed in images...

MacGuffin

#24
July 23, 2004, 03:50:47 PM
Quote from: EEz28High Fidelity was great also, loved how they used most of the funniest lines in the book during the times John is talking to the camera, i was afraid they would not use them.

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#25
July 24, 2004, 09:25:24 AM
Hahaha! Sounds great.

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#26
July 26, 2004, 09:05:11 AM
Chabon was asked about Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay at BNAT5.

From AintItCoolNews:

QuoteI managed to ask about the status of the film adaptation of Kavalier and Clay. His answer was, "Its a Dead Shark. It aint movin'." If it does take place, he mentioned that the idea was to have the Antarctica section presented visually as a comic book, but without animation (he didn't seem quire sure how this would be done). This guy is damn cool though and a great writer, if you haven't checked out Kavalier and Clay you owe it to yourself to seek it out.

Bummer  :?
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  -  George Lucas

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#27
September 05, 2004, 04:58:49 PM
i'd like to see Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett made into a film.
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#29
September 06, 2004, 03:19:16 PM
Quote from: ...& IIsn't Gilliam doing that one?
If I am not mistaken I thought he is going to do it.
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