Unfilmable Novels
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Sat, 01/13/2007 - 02:30
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Screenhead posits a list of novels which are thought to be unfilmable, why they are considered so, and which director might be the best to tackle it anyway. Update: Piggybacking on the original thought SF Signal opens up a thread specifically related to Unfilmable Speculative Fiction. Now that's a category I may know something about.
I would die to see David Lynch's metamorphasis, Let's hope he gets around to it someday.
Being that I never read, I'm surprised that I've almost read one.
I've read most of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle; I didn't finish it because other things came up and I'm a master at not finishing things, though what I read was great. I don't really see any reason why it would be unfilmable. The book makes some insanely long digressions, but it would be easy to trim them down. That said, Lynch and Kitano are terrible choices for directors, I think. I'd give it to Jun Ichikawa, as he's proven capable of handling Haruki Murakami material with Tony Takitani.
For what i read in the synopsis, it looks like a job for Japan greatest animator Hayao Miyazaki.