“Midnight’s Children” comes to mind. Satyajit Ray considered it unfilmable.
i saw the doc on Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno as well. isn’t it annoying when scenes from a film you haven’t actually seen keep popping into your head?
2666.
First off, if it wasn’t X rated it wouldn’t be true to the book.
Second, you’d have to split it up into separate movies some of which are 3 hours and some of which are 30 minutes.
Third, one of those movies would be nothing but a string of grotesque serial killings and an ocean of utilitarian apathy.
One that would be wonderful: Kubrick’s White Noise.
Finnegans Wake was made into a film in 1966 by Mary Ellen Bute and it’s wonderful.
The much-rumored Arrested Development movie seems to be a no-go, or maybe they’re just playing an elaborate trick on everyone.
I’d like to see an adaptation of Blood Meridian with the right director and the right actor to play the Judge, but it seems to be having trouble getting a footing.
I’d see “Catcher in the Rye” directed by Sidney Lumet. New York. Alienated youth. Cynicism. No music. It fits perfectly into his calalogue! He’d know that it would be a bad idea to have any background score.
Gotta respect Salinger, though.
Recently as of today, Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Hobbit’
Dreyer’s Jesus. I have the script. it’s criminal we couldn’t see this one. Also, he was preparing Medea when he died.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf would be completely impossible as a film
tree of life?
Updike’s IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES. I’m not sure how an adaptation could be done without losing what makes it great. Maybe a miniseries would work.
Josh H
The three projects I want to see the most are Tarantino’s The Vega Brothers, Fincher’s Alien3, and I know this is probably gonna ruin my credibility on the site: Kevin Smith’s Superman 5.