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Tuesday 1 May 2012, 15:54
I posted recently asking what you thought were the greatest books never filmed.
The response was overwhelming - here are just some of the nominees...
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Comment number 1.
Crash Landen1st May 2012 - 17:11
I can see Charlie Kaufman having a go at a script for The Good, The Bad And The Multiplex.
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Simmered1st May 2012 - 17:15
What about the best comic books never filmed? Watchmen spent years in development hell, and even Terry had to give up on it - although we obviously know how that turned out.
Obviously, comic books already come with scripts to start with, but I think The Filth is a prime example - too dark, too surreal and too non-linear to ever be filmed - at least by Hollywood.
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Brian - New Forest1st May 2012 - 17:20
.... as Ron Howard and Tom Hanks proved....
Twice!
Another reason not to bother Catching in the Rye... Igby Goes Down provided an alternative darkly comic teenage preppie shoegazer.
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Brian - New Forest1st May 2012 - 17:22
Would the film of the Oxford English Dictionary have to be remade as the Merriam-Webster for the American market?
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Brian - New Forest1st May 2012 - 17:49
Holden Caulfield also critiques Olivier's Hamlet in chapter 16, and at the end of chapter 18 expresses his dislike for A Farewell to Arms, but says he was crazy about.... The Great Gatsby.
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