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

[Ian Livingston]

I submit Lynch for GR.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 10:20 AM <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a thought, V, Coen brothers?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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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