nowonmai said:
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
that is a truly remarkable book. the writing is so wonderful i often thought that it would be hard to do it justice in a movie. it would be an amazing challenge, but i can think of a couple of directors who would be up to it.
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in fact, i just did some background reading and there is some interesting stuff here.
for anybody who does not know the book, it was written in 1981 and details the story of an 18th century parisian driven by olfactory obsession to become a serial murderer.
constantin films purchased the film rights to the book (in one of the biggest rights deals in hollywood history) from author patrick suskind.
the delay in completing the deal has an interesting explanation. suskind had, apparently, only wanted stanley kubrick to direct the screen version. following kubrick's death in 1999 a swarm of directors, including martin scorsese and tim burton, put in bids for the film, but Ridley Scott finally got the go ahead to develop the script.
Scott will write the script with help of Edward Scissorhands screenwriter Caroline Thompson.
if only tim burton had the chance to make this...
Originally posted by nowonmai I'd love to see some of Iain Banks culture stuff too...
oh yes. any one of his books would make excellent viewing. hopefully they'll start with my favourite: The Bridge
alasdair