ya let's skip jipster he can pick whenever he checks in.
gloco will have till a reasonable time tomorrow morning as he may already be asleep.

Novel: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara. It chronicles the self-destruction of Julian English, a young and rising member of a provincial upper class, set over a three or four day period during the Christmas/New Year holidays in the mid 1930's.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan based (mainly) on his direction of The Accidental Tourist, Body Heat, The Big Chill and Grand Canyon.

PMing mrbaseball

since I may not be up tomorrow when it's my turn I'm going to PM my pick to busto.

Was considering Kasdan for screenwriter

Round One

Novel
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand



This is my most recently read novel and all the way through I kept thinking I'd like to see this as a movie. This book is a pure love it or hate it proposition. I'm guessing most of 2+2 and the Lounge are in the hate category

Apparently it has been made into sort of a half-assed 3 part movie that was made over the years but has no continuity in the casting. I have never seen it.

From wiki:
It is basically a cautionary tale which I personally think needs to be taken more seriously and one that I feel is scarily close to fruition. Big brother was 1984 but if you ask me he is even scarier here.

Only one director I can think of is up for the job

Clint Eastwood



Clint has been doing some fine directorial work and is perfect for the job since he has dealt with these bureaucratic types before. He can deal with the empty suit (and chair) types of villain that this story tackles.



Apparently this movie was in the works back in the 70's as a big budget Hollywood feature until Rand got pissed at the producer and pulled the plug. Eastwood was cast to play the part of Hank Reardon which is an excellent casting choice but I have someone else in mind. Besides Clint is my perfect director.

so far:
Novel - Atlas Shrugged
Director - Clint Eastwood

the book i am going to adapt will not surprise many (in fact it was predicted in the interest thread) but it is one of my fav books ever written by my fav author ever.

it has been called the most un-filmable novel ever and rightly so.



it is unrelentingly violent, has no traditional heroes, has an unsatisfactory (for hollywood) ending, and worse of all has no sex or female characters to speak of (there is some sex but its indians raping dying soldiers and their horses so don't think that counts).

its also beautifully written, almost like a poem.
its an incredible examination of evil, violence, religion, life, war and the human existence.

it takes work to get thru it, he uses many archaic words, zero punctuation, and whole passages are written in spanish.

it is also the only book i ever had to put down in the middle of a chapter and just be like holy **** what did i just read (there is a chapter that is so gruesomely violent i literally had to stop reading for like 5mins and just ponder what i had read. i have never had such an experience from a novel or even a movie in my life).

but above everything else the prose is unrivaled in my experience.
the way he writes is almost dreamlike and his descriptions are so vivid you can see them in your mind as you read.

this film will not make any money.
it will not be seen by many (it will have an NC-17 rating and critics will bash it for its unforgiving nature and extreme violence) and people will walk out in the middle.

it may ruin the studio and everyone's career who's involved, but damn it it will be faithful to the book and will be a masterpiece.

i have spent quite a bit of time deciding who to select with my 1st pick.
there are two people that i absolutely need for this film and i will be heartbroken if one of them gets sniped.

even as i write this i am wavering on who to take first as they are both so vital to making this film the way i want it made.
its just a question of who is more likely to get sniped before my 2nd pick.

i am going to cross my fingers that undrafted slips back to me and with my first selection i am hiring andrew dominik to direct.

this film is going to have a dream-like quality to it (well i guess technically nightmare but w/e).

it is going to be LONG.

it will feature tons of lingering images of the landscape and sunsets.

andrew will transpose the slow beautiful descriptive prose from the page onto the screen and there will be long shots with no dialogue just the environment and natural sounds (there will be no soundtrack to this film, much like NCFOM it will feature all natural sounds).

as much as possible he will use natural lighting and the color palettes will be muted, cold, and soft like we saw in TAOJJBTCRF.

the film will alternate between the horrific intense rapid violence, and long philosophical discussions around the campfire, that take place in the novel.

if you have seen TAOJJBTCRF you know exactly why i am choosing him to direct this film, and you should have a good idea of how the film will look.

in honor of hunter s thompson my production company will be called "gonzo films" and this will most likely be our only release as we spend the next 10years following its release fighting off lawsuits from our investors.

novel: blood meridian
director: andrew dominik


pm'd ahutz

mrbaseball,

i would def pay to see that in the theater.

really great choices so far.

Yep. I waffled between Andrew and John but ultimately went with John because it looks like he's better at action. At least the kind o of action Holy Road needs. Blood Meridian going to be a GOAT film, probably missing something though by not being able to include Eastwood.

I know this is sacrilege and while unforgiven is one of my all time fav films I didn't have clint pegged for any of my roles in blood meridian.

and ya I def think John is better suited for the type of action you're going to have in your film.
while there is action in blood meridian I'm going for more of the slow meditative beauty like Andrew created in TAOJJBTCRF.

In that case you probably should have gone with UNDRAFTED

Apologies all! I must have checked my phone at 8.20pm and got a pm at 8.30 ish.... That's UK time....

This is my check-in... Will come back in a couple of hours with a full write up and my pick!

Awesome choices so far!

RBK,

Is this a snake draft? As in, does the order of picks go from front to reverse? First round II.II.II picks first, quinn warren picks last. Second round, quinn warren picks first, II.II.II picks last. Third round II.II.II picks first, quinn warren picks last. Etc.

Can Eastwood the director and Eastwood the actor be drafted separately?

He has spoken

Linklater is both writer and director for me, but I don't mind burning a pick later to make that kosher

Since I never posted a summary of A Naked Singularity, from the Amazon page:

From Booklist
In a narrow yet vital sense, this is a crime novel about one Casi, a precocious young public defender who, beginning to strain under the weight of his profession and his perfectionism, loses his first case and happens upon the opportunity to get away with the perfect crime. It is also one of those sprawling hyperverbal stream-of-consciousness epics that sometimes seem infatuated with their own cleverness but in their best moments manage to capture something profound about our sprawling hyperverbal stream-of-consciousness world. The story is anchored by notes of gritty realism—de la Pava clearly has an insider’s knowledge of the Manhattan criminal-court system—but Casi and his interlocutors are as likely to veer into digressive philosophical banter about Hume or The Honeymooners as they are to throw around the legal jargon you’d hear at an arraignment. There are some hilarious moments and more than a few heartbreaking ones involving a mentally handicapped man on Alabama’s death row.

As virtual reality comes to the forefront, 20 years after The Lawnmower Man, its time for a new one. One to blow the socks off anything that has come before it.

Set in a dystopian future (aren't they all now) and perhaps more importantly for the average age of The Lounge, this one is chock a block full of eighties references....

Oculus Rift purportedly bought for 1 Billion by Facebook; worries about privacy and big data; google glass.... the current reference for this baby just go on and on

I hope some of you will have read this. I'm extremely jealous of those of you who haven't.

Ready
Player
One



Our protagonist is a teenager, in his last year in school, living in an apartment built out of shipping containers, no money, getting by through fixing old computers and peripherals.

He spends his time in OASIS. The most powerful virtual reality world ever built. The founder of OASIS is the worlds greatest coder James Donovan Halliday who dies and bequeaths his whole fortune to whomever completes the quest to find the hidden easter eggs.

James Donovan Halliday is also an 80's freak. The book and world is dotted with references, obscure 80's comics, a whole host of early computers and consoles, and the requisite games and music. The quest, clearly, revolves around these themes.

Let the games begin

(People - for whatever reason the pc I'm using wont allow me to use the editing functions so apologies, I wanted to have a load of spoilers below)


Director:

My first thought was for the berst sci-fi director of the day, a certain Mr Nolan. As it happened there are strong rumours he's actually been signed on to direct this. But i thought some more. My second thought was for a Mr Spielberg. I mean, what other director typifies the eighties than him. But this needs to be 3D (and I'm not the worlds biggest fan of 3D)

But after all is said and done, there is only one man to take this forward. He is also steeped in the eighties. Steeped in Sci-Fi. Had a smash hit with something that took a decade to produce.

James Cameron

I don't think there is a need to explain. Terminator. Aliens. This guy was doing dystopian before dystopia was even a thing.

And Avatar. Much maligned but no one will dispute the visual sensation.

And this may well take a decade to produce. Not because it will be so difficult to film, just to garner the myriad of image rights needed.

RBK is up. PM sent.

I already picked Cameron, sorry

Yeah Cameron is no longer available. And several UNDRAFTED directors in that post. For shame!

Yes.

the draft will be snaked so the last person will have 2 picks at once.

MOTHER****ER!!!

And I'm sure RBK will second that.

Book -- The Wrong Case by James Crumley (1975)

James Crumley is my favorite author. He is considered by many critics and authors to be one of most influential crime fiction novelists. Despite the critical acclaim and respect of his peers, none of Crumley’s books ever became best-sellers. My studio plans to adapt The Wrong Case by James Crumley into a movie. It is the first of four books to feature private detective Milo Milodragovitch. If the movie is successful future plans are to adapt the remaining novels. The hope is that the work of James Crumley can finally find a large audience, even if it’s on the big screen and not in print.

Back of the book information for The Wrong Case:


James Crumley on Hollywood:
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Round 1

Director(s) & Screenplay adaptation from source novel

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.

My studio feels the Coen Brothers are the perfect duo to handle the adaptation of the source novel as well as the films direction.







The novel features a unique setting - a decaying lumber town in Montana - as well as an outrageous cast of characters. Such as a purple haired massive in size homosexual drug dealer, free spirited sex crazed transient youngsters, and a town drunk who can't stop ****ting himself. Our hero, the alcoholic PI Milo even has a second office hidden away in the freezer at a local bar. Some of these characters feel as if they were stolen from a Coen Brothers movie,yet the book was published in 1975. I think both the setting and the characters play to the strengths of Joel and Ethan Coen. Despite all the wonky characters and the hard-boiled crime elements, at it's heart The Wrong Case is about addiction, alcoholism, and attempting to reinvent yourself. I think the Coen Brothers can navigate through all the outrageous elements of The Wrong Case and tell a strong character driven story about Milo Milodragovitch.

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Book - The Wrong Case
Director - Coen Brothers
Screenplay Adaptation - Coen Brothers

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EDIT: PM'd Oroku$aki who is up next.

...wha? I don't think I have the perseverance to do this faithfully.

just checked in some great picks so far.

ahutz, it goes without saying that i am very excited to see your film, coens are prolly my all time fav directors.

great write ups by everyone.

btw jipster i know that you are knew to this so just a friendly bit of advice you are not supposed to mention anyone that has yet to be drafted.
cheers.

so oroku$aki are you dropping out?
pls let us know either way, but know that you don't have to do such lengthy write ups, would rather have you participate and do shorter write ups then drop out because you don't have the time to write long detailed ones.

also busto, yes its a snake draft.