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

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I agree on V. I can’t imagine anybody quite managing it. Mason & Dixon would require something like a cross between Lean, Bertolucci and Merchant Ivory. The mind boggles. Plus the scripting? 

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> On 23 Dec 2018, at 10:56, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, John. GR on film? Unpossible!  But as a TV series?  Why fucking not?
> 
> David Morris
> 
>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 3:05 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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