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

[jbloocher at gmail.com]

Just a thought, V, Coen brothers?

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> On 23 Dec 2018, at 11:31, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
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>> 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? 
>> 
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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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