So it goes! Guillermo del Tero and Charlie Kaufman working on Slaughterhouse-Five movie adaptation
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[quote] Guillermo del Toro is currently caught between a dimension in which he’s creating a new adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five with Charlie Kaufman, and one in which he definitely isn’t. Del Toro explained the paradox to the Daily Telegraph (via The Playlist), saying he’s attached to make a new version of Vonnegut’s novel that George Roy Hill last adapted in 1972, and that he wants to explore its story of a fatalistic WWII soldier’s time travels with Kaufman, who spends most of his days brooding in the fourth dimension anyway. “Charlie and I talked for about an hour-and-a-half and came up with a perfect way of doing the book,” Del Toro said. ”I love the idea of the Trafalmadorians—to be 'unstuck in time,' where everything is happening at the same time. And that's what I want to do.”[/quote]
[quote]Also, by directors who already have tons of other things they’re supposed to be working on right now. “It's just a catch-22,” Del Toro said of this conundrum. “The studio will make it when it's my next movie, but how can I commit to it being my next movie until there's a screenplay?”
And as Del Toro has already committed to making Crimson Peak as well as his FX series The Strain in the next year—and seeing as he can only perceive time in a linear fashion—he’s struggling to find the dimension in which Universal has already paid for Kaufman’s script (whom he calls “a very expensive writer”), but only after Del Toro’s already read that script and agreed to make it his next movie.[/quote]
[url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/listen-guillermo-del-toros-adaptation-of-slaughter,99852/][Source - A.V. Club][/url]
All I know, it's gonna be extremely difficult. It's really hard to make this book a good adaptation, and in the same time - a good movie itself.
Slaughterhouse-Five is only memorable because of Vonnegut's quirky, metafictional, self-referential writing style. None of that will translate to film, so this movie is guaranteed to be either uninteresting or a complete disaster.
I saw the Slaughterhouse Five movie in high school, was pretty good.
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069280/[/url]
That one.
Holy shit, I have this book in original language.
I'll test my English and read his bitch.
[QUOTE=smallfry;41373340]Slaughterhouse-Five is only memorable because of Vonnegut's quirky, metafictional, self-referential writing style. None of that will translate to film, so this movie is guaranteed to be either uninteresting or a complete disaster.[/QUOTE]
This has to be one of the worst ideas for an adaptation ever.
[QUOTE=smallfry;41373340]Slaughterhouse-Five is only memorable because of Vonnegut's quirky, metafictional, self-referential writing style. None of that will translate to film, so this movie is guaranteed to be either uninteresting or a complete disaster.[/QUOTE]
Can't be worse than the World War Z adaptation
On the bright side, the movie should end adaptations of it at least - if Del Toro can't do it, no one can
This is going to be either bad or masterfully done.
[QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;41373645]Holy shit, I have this book in original language.
I'll test my English and read his bitch.[/QUOTE]
Whose bitch?
Kaufman is a great writer... this can only be good..
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[QUOTE=Billiam;41373819]This has to be one of the worst ideas for an adaptation ever.[/QUOTE]
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Kaufman did something magnificent accidently here, who says he can't do the same again..
Who knows, maybe it'll get people to read the book, regardless of how good or bad the movie is. I'm down with that.
[QUOTE=smallfry;41373340]Slaughterhouse-Five is only memorable because of Vonnegut's quirky, metafictional, self-referential writing style. None of that will translate to film, so this movie is guaranteed to be either uninteresting or a complete disaster.[/QUOTE]
What if they adapt it to do the same thing with the actors, subtly referencing the film itself? It would be tricky, but perhaps possible.
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