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Tom Wolfe's 1998 book "A Man in Full" being adapted into a Netflix series
Posted on 11/7/21 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 11/7/21 at 8:15 pm
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Netflix has picked up six episodes of a drama based on the bestselling 1998 Tom Wolfe fiction opus “A Man in Full” about an Atlanta real estate mogul’s fall from grace.
Executive producers Regina King (”One Night in Miami”) and David E. Kelley (”Ally McBeal,” “The Practice,” “Nine Perfect Strangers”) are overseeing the project.
“All I can say is when David E. Kelley calls, you just say yes,” King said in story broken by Variety. “I know this partnership will produce something special.”
King previously worked on an FX project about the Atlanta child murders that never made it to fruition.
Soon after the book’s release, there were talks in 1999 to create an NBC miniseries based on “A Man in Full.” That project died on the vine.
Wolfe, who died in 2018, made a name for himself with a raft of bestsellers, including 1979's historical nonfiction book “The Right Stuff” about the Mercury Seven astronauts and his fictional 1987 Wall Street satire, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.” His style of journalism featured a broad array of literary techniques and he used his journalistic observational style to populate his fictional work as well.
Posted on 11/7/21 at 8:41 pm to Wally Sparks
I was one of many people to buy A Man in Full but never finish after realizing how long, slow, and detailed it was. Im sure they're going to soap opera it up.
Posted on 11/7/21 at 9:00 pm to Wally Sparks
quote:the film version of this is the worst adaptation of a novel I've ever seen
his fictional 1987 Wall Street satire, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”
It does have the immortal moment when Melanie Griffith is driving through the ghetto and says: "Ah'm from the South, and Ah'm beginnin' to not lahk this"
Posted on 11/7/21 at 10:28 pm to PowerTool
I am also one of those people. frick that book
Posted on 11/8/21 at 9:13 am to PowerTool
I tried to read Wolfe's fiction and just couldn't. I went to his Wikipedia page just to read up on him and found this gem.
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Mailer compared reading a Wolfe novel to having sex with a 300 lb woman, saying, "Once she gets to the top it's all over. Fall in love or be asphyxiated
Posted on 11/8/21 at 9:48 am to Wally Sparks
I'd imagine that finding an actor to play Charlie Croker would be as hard as finding someone to play Ignatius Reilly.
I guess I'm the odd man out as I liked the book. A Man In Full was the first place I'd heard the term 'boys with breasts' regarding starved and over-exercised housewives prone to visits to their plastic surgeon. Its a term I still use today.
I guess I'm the odd man out as I liked the book. A Man In Full was the first place I'd heard the term 'boys with breasts' regarding starved and over-exercised housewives prone to visits to their plastic surgeon. Its a term I still use today.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 9:58 am to Wally Sparks
One of my all time favorite books, this should be a home run
Posted on 11/8/21 at 10:43 am to ManBearTiger
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One of my all time favorite books, this should be a home run
I somewhat disagree. I didn't like it nearly as much as Bonfire, but I am one of those that finished the entire book and would give it a generally positive review. My problem with it is that it is largely a philosophical book that doesn't have much of a plot. There are things that happen, but at no point did I imagine this as a grand piece of theater like other novels that become adapted to the screen.
The most memorable scene in the book really can't be adapted to the screen, either. It just won't work as well. I refer to the portion in which Croker demonstrates his bull-breeding techniques on his south Georgia ranch to the aristocratic types from Buckhead. Just going to be hammy on the screen in my opinion.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 2:13 pm to Wally Sparks
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nonfiction book “The Right Stuff” about the Mercury Seven astronauts
A must read for everyone
Posted on 11/8/21 at 3:23 pm to HabaneroBuck
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I didn't like it nearly as much as Bonfire, but I am one of those that finished the entire book and would give it a generally positive review.
I finished it soon after its release, and I guess it was pretty forgettable because I don't really remember much from it. I enjoyed his next book, I Am Charlotte Simmons, much more. Neither come close to The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test though.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 6:46 pm to HabaneroBuck
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didn't like it nearly as much as Bonfire
I realize I'm in an overwhelmed minority here but it's my all time favorite of Wolfe's. It was also my first read from him and remember being totally enthralled by his style for the first time. Tom Wolfe was the last great American author for the time being imo
I greatly enjoyed the philosophical nature of the narrative and concede it is way less "plot-driven" than Bonfire
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Posted on 11/8/21 at 8:00 pm to ManBearTiger
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Tom Wolfe was the last great American author for the time being imo
I like a lot of Tom Wolfe, but Michael Chabon is 10 times the author Wolfe was.
Posted on 11/8/21 at 8:31 pm to PowerTool
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I was one of many people to buy A Man in Full but never finish after realizing how long, slow, and detailed it was. Im sure they're going to soap opera it up.
I read the whole thing, just don't remember it. Bonfire was a much better book.
Posted on 11/9/21 at 7:33 am to Ham And Glass
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A Man In Full was the first place I'd heard the term 'boys with breasts' regarding starved and over-exercised housewives prone to visits to their plastic surgeon. Its a term I still use today.
They're still fairly prevalent in Buckhead.
Posted on 11/9/21 at 7:49 am to Wally Sparks
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They're still fairly prevalent in Buckhead.
Buckhead Bettys
Posted on 11/9/21 at 8:20 am to Kafka
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the film version of this is the worst adaptation of a novel I've ever seen
The book The Devil's Candy is an excellent write-up of just how screwed up the production of BOTV really was.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 3:49 pm to Ham And Glass
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I'd imagine that finding an actor to play Charlie Croker would be as hard as finding someone to play Ignatius Reilly.
Clancy Brown's character in Billions is the closest thing I can think of. He could probably pull it off.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 10:58 pm to Kafka
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the film version of this is the worst adaptation of a novel I've ever seen It does have the immortal moment when Melanie Griffith is driving through the ghetto and says: "Ah'm from the South, and Ah'm beginnin' to not lahk this"
1000% that movie murdered that book. And I fully expect that this movie adaptation will follow the same course.
Tom Wolfe was an icon, a true genius of our times. To me, his passing was second only to Rush Limbaugh.
Posted on 11/10/21 at 11:01 pm to HabaneroBuck
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I refer to the portion in which Croker demonstrates his bull-breeding techniques on his south Georgia ranch
Not bulls, but horses. But you are right in that that very important passage cannot be adapted to film.
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