TV Getting Even Better? A PYNCHON Favorite to Watch Out for this Spring!

[Mark Thibodeau]

Oh, I'm deadly serious. A cinematic wunderkind could translate GR into
something amazing and true to the novel, AND I think it would be a lot
easier to do it than Against the Day.

Perhaps the best candidate for long-form visual translation, though,
is Mason & Dixon, which would have to be incredibly sumptuous... the
kind of thing that makes you feel drunk to watch it (just as I feel
literally drunk after reading just a few pages of it).

V, I suspect, would be his most difficult to translate into TV.

Jerky

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:45 AM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hahahahaha
> Or,
> You're serious.
> I guess it can be both. Excluded middles and all that. If Heller and Dick can make it today, get PTA on board as executive producer, Netflix throws some of its limitless credit in, maybe Pynchon could get Tubal. GR is a longshot though.
> Related: which Pynchon novel has enough base-level digestibility for TV adaption?
> Saw ROMA in the cinema the other night and it's a masterpiece. That kind of treatment of AtD would be one of the finest works of cinema ever.
>
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2018, 7:23 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> See, now why on Earth couldn't Gravity's Rainbow get this kind of
>> small screen, big budget, "prestige" treatment? I personally think
>> that it's a lot more "translatable" to a visual medium than people
>> give it credit for. Some of those characters could be the stuff of TV
>> LEGEND!!!
>>
>> Jerky
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:42 AM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > HULU is adapting CATCH-22 for a 4-Part mini series featuring such
>> > box-office big shots as old man George Clooney and Hugh Laurie  Looks like
>> > a lot of insightful fun coming this Spring 2019 (if we survive that long,
>> > that is)
>> >
>> > https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/12/first-look-images-for-hulus-upcoming-catch-22-reve.html
>> >
>> > Allan in WV
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