Holy crap. Is this true? And if so how did I not know that…
And to be put aside for the likes of those two CGI eyesores…so wrong.
Must have now please. Now. NOW!!!
Hmmm, I just don’t see how The Fermata, or any Nicholson Baker book for that matter, would work as a movie. In my opinion, his work is claustrophobic, interior, and miniaturist (all in a good way).
I mean, I guess it would be cool to see him walking around the time-stopped world, but most of the book is about sex. Is Zemeckis really going to retain the edge of the book? I don’t think the movie-going public is going to put up with some dude stopping time, stripping women and ogling their bodies, masturbating, etc. (And those are the major plot points!)
I’d be interested to read the Gaiman script, but it seems untranslatable to me, unless you just use the book as a jumping off point and go in a completely different direction. Which then, really, wouldn’t be The Fermata at all.
Well stated. The concept is thought-provoking, but seems to collapse under all the factors described above.
…and I can just see Zemeckis doing a dead-eye motion capture version of it - ugh.
Don’t forget the pooping.
Oh, and Cashback was a pretty good movie.
If someone wants to put forth the effort of making a film adaptation of anything, I say go for it. I reserve the right to hate it and mock them openly afterward, but you won’t see me discouraging the effort no matter how far flat it might fall.
I still love the book and my enjoyment of it would endure even the most horrific abuse on-screen.