Those who know me know that I read. A lot. Probably even more than I watch films. They also know that I am simply a massive fan of Douglas Coupland. Thus I am stunned that this has managed to slip under my radar this long. Coupland - famous for Generation X and Life After God - has written an original screenplay titled Everything's Gone Green and it is going into production this month with Paul Fox at the helm and Paulo Costanzo in the lead role.
I always knew it was just a matter of time before Coupland made it to the big screen. Microserfs came close and after early rumblings that Tarantino had picked up rights to All Families Are Psychotic that one is now in the hands of Dreamworks and director Noam Murro. The thing is, though, that as much as I love Coupland on the printed page the things that make his best work so strong simply wouldn't be very likely to make it on to the big screen because he is simply neither plot nor dialogue driven most of the time. The most important stuff happens internally and that generally doesn't make for particularly good viewing. Thus having a project written directly for the screen makes me doubly happy. We get Doug on screen and we get him there without having to do a major overhaul of his written work. Yum.
Details via Screen International.
This is awesome. Douglas Coupland is one of my favourite authors and everything he's done is just amazing. I still need to read Eleanor Rigby but I'm waiting for it come out in paperback. Can't wait for more news on this.
Yeah, his education was in art school as a sculptor and he still does design work when time permits. Does a bit of theater, too.
He's had a couple misses - Girlfriend in a Coma really panders to his reputation and there are a couple where he messes with structure and spends so much time on that that he misses the characters a bit - but when he's on, he's ON.
I like Nostradamus a lot but Eleanor Rigby and All Families Are Psychotic are the really prime material of the recent stuff. Rigby does right what Coma got wrong.
That's a hearty recommendation then...I'm off to the library to pick up that one and Sarah Vowell's Assasination Vacation...Time to start reading books again...the last book I read was Flicker, which hopefully will soon be an Aronofsky film (after the Fountain).
I was an extra for this film just the other day. We were at a night school and taking a mandarin class to well...learn mandarin...Paulo Castanzo is a funny guy and it was a fun day. looks like its gonna be a great movie, can't wait to see it
Just met with Paul Fox and talked for half an hour about this and The Dark Hours ... distrib for the Dark Hours wants us to wait until just before the film's release in November to post anything about that one, but Fox gave the thumbs up to post all the Everything's Gone Green stuff, so as soon as I get this thing transcribed you'll be seeing it here ... I'm feeling hugely encouraged about the film from what Fox told me. It should be good ...