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

[John Bailey]

Agree, I can't see anything in V. that makes screen sense. I love it as
words and that's where it lives.
Vineland would be easiest with the pull of colour-graded nostalgia, sweet
soundtrack  (60s, 70s and 80s in one!) and family drama hook. Zoyd, Prairie
and Frenesi are prime TV characters, and consciously so I'd project.



On Sun, 23 Dec 2018, 9:07 PM <jbloocher at gmail.com wrote:

> 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?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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