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First things first, director Peter Weir - he who made The Truman Show and Fearless and Picnic at Hanging Rock, amongst other great films - has announced a new film. I somehow still haven't watched his last film, The Way Back with Colin Farrell, but here we are. His new movie is an adaptation of a book called The Keep by Jennifer Egan. At first I thought it was a remake of Michael Mann's 1983 movie of the same name with Scott Glenn (which was very pretty but bored me to tears) about spirit-hunting Nazis, but it ain't.
Second things second, it took me five seconds into reading what the book's about to order a copy. Two cousins, haunted by some sort of horrific childhood prank, decide to reunite years later at a haunted castle! Gothic mayhem ensues! I don't know why, maybe it's the impending Summer, but this just sounds like the most important thing I will ever read to me this morning. Has anybody read it?
And eventually this will be a very important movie, as well. Peter Weir making a haunted castle movie! He hasn't made anything of this sort since Hanging Rock, and we all know how that turned out. (Masterful, in case you don't.) Sign me up.
I read "The Keep" a few years ago. SO GOOD!!!
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Yeah, it's good. One of the bookiest books I've ever read, though (I think it was Egan's first and it practically screams "I'm the best thing that came out of that grad-level creative writing program"), I'd be curious to see how they manage certain elements of the plot in a visual medium.
ReplyDeleteI really liked 'The Keep', I think it could make an interesting movie if they stick to some of the subtle ways that the book deviates from traditional storytelling/novelistic conventions. I also adored Egan's 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'.
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