Rita Wilson, aka Ms. Tom Hanks, is looking to bring the novel Middlesex to the small screen as an hour-long drama on HBO. I'm not sure what to think about that. I can see how it would work - following the life of a hermaphrodite - but do you think people would watch it?
I tried to think of other books that have become TV shows: Little House on the Prairie, Friday Night Lights, Gossip Girl, True Blood (those last two are based on books, right?)... but what else? I think this is less of an occurrence than book-to-big-screen.
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I actually really enjoyed reading Middlesex. I don't get HBO, but I think this a show I'd watch on DVD later.
Middlesex as a movie could be really good or really, really awful.
Hmmm.... I loved Middlesex. And I loved Virgin Suicides (in print). I thought that the movie was pretty boring... the text doesn't translate well. I wonder if it'd be the same with Middlesex.
i'm currently about halfway through "middlesex" and stopped to google the idea of if anyone was planning to turn it into a movie. both evidences i've found are from the summer of 2009. so i'm curious if any new developments happened since then, but your blog was one of the two sites i found noting a screenplay in the works.
as much as i usually don't want great books turned into films, this is one i'm interested in seeing hit an hbo-set screen. the novel's inner-workings are so complex, like stretches of miracles across a fat stack of pages, that i can't really quite imagine how a film would even play out. i suppose that's why i'm curious, and i kind of hope it happens.
i think non-dull people who are actually curious about learning and absorbing all that is out there in life would check out such a film, especially those who have read the book.
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