cyberpunk & the GR movie

[Timothy C. May]

Curiouser and Curiouser wrote:

> Maybe I am underestimating the Hollywood machinery here, but I think it
> would be really really hard for a director to pitch any Pynchon book to a
> producer.  It's taken 30 years(?) to get Confederacy of Dunces into
> production, which is a considerably more linear book than any Pynchon work.
> To get a Pynchon book filmed would take a director with a lot of clout, and
> I have a hard time seeing Spielberg or Coppolla wanting to direct a GR
> adaptation.

Agreed. And the utter failure of "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" makes
it even harder.

(Multiple rewrites were tried to make the movie acceptable. Various
versions were filmed and shown before test audiences, who reportedly
hated all versions shown.)

Great novels do not necessarily make great movies. (At a lower level,
look at how a "comparatively great" SF novel like "Dune" came across
as such a confusing movie, even with a regular version (a flop), an
extended t.v. version (also a flop), and even a "director's cut.")

--Tim May


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