Infinite Jest

What would a film adaptation of Infinite Jest look like?

Would a TV adaptation be more appropriate?

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Like arrested development.
All the footnotes would have to be cutaways

It would be retarded reddit garbage. It's a well written but aesthetically hideous book.

>A whole season of cutaways showing Hals father's filmography

LOL DUDE TENNIS

10 part HBO miniseries

I'd rather someone make a Confederacy of Dunces movie tbhfam. Now that is something everyone on Sup Forums can relate to.

unfilmable. unreadable for 97% of america.
it's an intellectual status symbol.
the decemberists music video using the eschaton game as a motif is great though.

how long does this book take to read? i have a copy but never started it. it would probably be a better use of my free time than reading people yell the same ten things at each other over and over again.

>well written but aesthetically hideous

wat

It wouldn't actually take that long if you are willing to push though it. But When I read it I often felt like putting it down for a day/week/month at a time. There were some parts of the book I really disliked and you couldn't tell when he would get back to the characters you cared about.

think Terrance Malik filming an episode of the real housewives.
beautiful prose but plot is "slice of life" on mushrooms. and not in a good way. and the endless footnotes are unique.

>ywn live to see this idea executed well

Ive heard of this only through one person in life, who was a soyboy prototype. He was a big fan of this book.

I read half of this book then realised I hadn't been reading the footnotes.

Dropped it there and then, fuck that.

Slice of life anime

it would be a boring movie and no one would make money

You couldn't condense it in a movie

Marathe and Steeply's talk in the desert would hardly be digestible for a modern audience, let alone television-friendly. And I don't see Hideo Kojima directing for film anytime soon.

On the other hand, juxtaposing the ETA with the Ennet House scenes is just the right kind of absurdity that a (post-)modern audience can appreciate. It can be just off-putting enough to keep the viewer coming back, but without making sweeping generalizations on one world or the other. The way Mr. Robot was directed would work nicely but easy on the flashbacks and flash-forwards, these can be done at a breakneck pace (a la Guy Richie).

Jason Segel can play Lyle.
Ana de Armas can be Joelle van Dyne.
As for Don Gately I'll accept no less than Jonah Hill, if he's willing to get his weight up.

The Academy students can be cast from a prestigious boarding school's Theater department. As such, to keep it candid and bull-shit free, we can cast the halfway house live-in staff from an actual halfway house.

Mario's performance should be likeable, obviously, and eternally memorable. I'm not qualified to choose his actor. The Moms can be Eva Green, no less.

Netflix.

I don't see what the big deal is really, its far from unfilmable, not a particularly difficult read and frequently quite funny. Structurally it obviously plays games, it depends on how much of that you want to keep. Its what gives the book its lustre really yet will have to be the first thing to go.

>Cold Open on victims of The Entertainment, wide eyed, dribbling. Camera doesn't quite catch the screen, dialogue left to exaggerated reverb.
>Cops and emergency responders outside wigging out, comedically bumping into each other as they try to get into the room wearing darkened glasses with their hands over their eyes.
>Zoom in on one cop, he turns so he can better hear the dialogue.
>"Its OK, its OK".
>Camera just off floor level turns to point at the screen. Camera drops, simulated failure of sensor.
>Cue theme music (Daniel Pemberton composer)
>Scene 1: The conversationalist

I've got the whole thing in my head.

You might have to rebalance slightly for screen. Two main threads (Hal and Gately) and you'd probably want to work in the Canadian terrorists more heavily to give it a bit of threat/motion.

It would be filmed in medium-twee mode, M.Landis/W.Anderson style, it wouldn't survive realism.

You'd also want a really compelling deeper flashback mechanism, the natural thing is to do it through the Icandenza films which cut to the circumstances around their making them still in their authentic format, 16mm, Super8 etc. Sometimes narrated by Hal or another character as if for a documentary.

This sounds sensible.

>for Don Gately I'll accept no less than JH
mfw

Post more greentext if you're willing. That was golden.

>What would a film adaptation of Infinite Jest look like?
Foster Wallace jerking himself off for 20 hours straight and then offing himself in the final episode.

>triggered

It's too bad most DFW fans are socialists/anarcho communists. I see it all the time on OkCupid. That site is a cringe goldmine.

>urine trouble? Urine luck!
I couldn't finish, maybe in another decade or two.

PTA directed miniseries when?

how big of a brainlet am i that i couldn't finish nor really appreciate this book. since i'm a pleb sometimes i don't know if i don't like something because it sucks or because i suck

DFW was the Sultan of Soy.

The book that soyboys read to feel intellectually superior because they're too stupid/triggered to read Joyce

So, Who plays Ignatius?

I remember thinking it was great when I was 20, then read it again last year at 27 and realising I had bought into the hype of a glorified diatribe about addiction, tennis and USA reliance on tv or something. It is a enjoyable read but there's not any ideas you would want to seriously take from DFWs hyper paranoid/ironic view of life.

>So, Who plays Ignatius?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces#Adaptations

Harold Ramis was to write and direct an adaptation, starring John Belushi and Richard Pryor, but Belushi's death prevented this. Later, John Candy and Chris Farley were touted for the lead, but both of them, like Belushi, also died at an early age, leading many to ascribe a curse to the role

Director John Waters was interested in directing an adaptation starring Divine, who also died at an early age, as Ignatius

John Goodman, a longtime resident of New Orleans, was slated to play Ignatius at one point.

A version adapted by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer, and slated to be directed by David Gordon Green, was scheduled for release in 2005. The film was to star Will Ferrell as Ignatius

In 2012 there was a version in negotiation with director James Bobin and potentially starring Zach Galifianakis

In November 2015, Huntington Theatre Company debuted the world-premiere of a stage version of A Confederacy of Dunces written by Jeffrey Hatcher in their Avenue of the Arts/BU Theatre location in Boston, with Nick Offerman starring as Ignatius J. Reilly.

For some reason, I've always imagined Ignatius having a Brooklyn accent. I know that it takes place in Louisiana, but I just can't picture him talking any other way. The beginning of the book is so hilarious. I love the phrase "theology and geometry."

Gravity's Rainbow will never be adapted.

This is good or maybe bad, depending on how you feel about scat.

I used a Kindle and just tapped the footnote number to read it, no page flipping nonsense required, take that Wallace! Anular reading my ass!

How dare they steal his brand?

I'm a right wing extremist and love dfw

Halfway thru I realized that going back and forth between the footnotes and main story was like watching a game of tennis

Really made me think

>Sir, we need to cast Mario Incand-
>I'm already on it.