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1551878 No.1551878 [Reply] [Original]

The first-ever Thomas Pynchon movie adaptation has been green-lighted.

It will start shooting once Paul Thomas Anderson finalizes the adapted screenplay.

>> No.1551886
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>> No.1551898
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lots of lit movies coming all of a sudden

>> No.1551908

>>1551898
Okay, which one of you fags works for a major film company?

>> No.1551914

Not the first ever adaptation of Pynchon - there's a German film (can't remember its name) based on Gravity's Rainbow.

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So a writer of silly, incomprehensible yet largely amazing books gets adapted by the maker of silly, incomprehensible and largely pointless films.

Close enough for Hollywood.

Also,
>adapting anything Thomas Pynchon has ever written into a screenplay
>my face when

>> No.1551929

>>1551914
>first-ever (authorized) adaption.

>> No.1551931

>>1551928
>largely pointless films

faggot detected

>> No.1551950

I heard that Penguin was shopping the film rights to the book when it was published.
All well and good, but Anderson will have to deal with people comparing it to The Big Lebowski.

>> No.1551953

>>1551931
Big fan of Punch Drunk Love, right?

>> No.1551951

>>1551928
Have you read Inherent Vice? It's probably the most straightforward, easily understood, and adaptable thing he's ever written.

>> No.1551959

This has much to do with Inherent Vice being the only one that's actually filmable.

>> No.1551961

>>1551959
Well... I think they could do an adaptation of The Crying of Lot 49 too, but I'd say Inherent Vice is a bit easier.

>> No.1551963

>>1551953
Punch-Drunk Love was a breakthrough in visual story-telling.

>litfags with no sense of visual aesthetics can't into Punch-Drunk Love

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1551964

A 25-year-old billionaire heiress is going to finance PTA's film.

Pic related.

>> No.1551969

Pretty cool - sometimes I roll my eyes at PTA but he keeps getting better. I want to see his Scientology movie first, though

>> No.1551976

>>1551964
she co-funded the coens' true grit too

if to the white sea and the yiddish policemen's union get made with her money i will travel to whatever rich people's private island she lives on and propose

>> No.1551985

>>1551976
Dude, I reeeeeeeeally want to see Yiddish Policemen's Union adapted, so I'll put up with an "unworthy" backer in order to get it.

>> No.1551999

>>1551963
>buzzword buzzword buzzword

You guys are my favorite subset of PTA fans. The ones who still can't admit when the concepts just don't come together.

>> No.1552001

>>1551985
oh i have no beef at all with larry ellison's kid, financing good movies is a pretty cool use of your ridiculously huge inheritance. and yeah i'd go see that shit if it was made with money from a child pornography ring