The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces

Download or read book The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces written by Stephan Eicke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.