Hope it happens. Replay is a great book! Don’t remember a subplot about saving his own daughter, though - is that a Hollywood add-on?
There is absolutely no sub-plot. The main character is childless in his prime timeline. If they try and add in that sub-plot, it will totally destroy such an interesting and thoughtful book.
I’m guessing the writer of the article did not read the book and was going from some garbled description. But the addition of the daughter subplot might be necessary – the book would not translate well to the screen without some sort of overarching concept like that. I wouldn’t mind the addition as long as the basic concept of the book remains.
I’d like to have high hopes for this, as Replay is one of my favorite books. I’m dubious, though- the daughter subplot sounds like a something a studio exec insisted on. I’m not even sure how the main character could “rescue” his daughter- the entire point is that, once he lost her, she never existed.
Yeah, I’d like to see a good adaptation of this book - now that I’m about as old as the main character was when he died (I read the book when it first came out in the mid-80s). But as you alluded the only daughter existing in the main character’s life is the one who exists only in his second run-through of his life - the daughter he has with his trophy wife, whom he doesn’t particularly like and as Noelq suggests the main character’s childlessness in his original life is very important to the plot because his wife’s miscarriage and subsequent infertility has blighted their marriage
I love Replay, so I have absolute certainty that they will screw it up. If it does get made, I’ll probably still see it.