Description
| Product ID: | 9781476689319 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces |
| Subtitle: | How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood |
| Authors: | Author: Stephan Eicke |
| Page Count: | 229 |
| Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Literary companions, book reviews & guides |
| Description: | Drawing on exclusive interviews, internal documents and private correspondence, this book tells the remarkable story of the non-making of A Confederacy of Dunces as a breathless and absurdist thriller. Celebrity appearances include John Belushi, Steven Soderbergh, Stephen Fry, and Robin Williams, among others. For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships shattered, reputations trashed, production companies bankrupted. Drawing on exclusive interviews, internal documents and private correspondence, this book tells the remarkable story of the non-making of A Confederacy of Dunces as a breathless and absurdist thriller. Celebrity appearances include John Belushi, Steven Soderbergh, Stephen Fry, Robin Williams, Warren Beatty and Harvey Weinstein, among others. |
| Imprint Name: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Publisher Name: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-12-16 |
