Just a quick note about a nice article from Slate, outlining the development hell that has surrounded John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces. As for myself, maybe it's just one of those novels that should never be adapted. Sure, Fight Club worked, and The English Patient, but what about Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? All wonderful novels, all slightly tarnished by the well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempts to both capture the essence of the book while creating a visual interpretation of the unfilmmable elements.
Read the article in its entirety here.
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