Something(s) to look forward to...

[jake_fink]

There are a couple of period movies on the horizon... Robert Towne's film of the John Fante novel Ask the Dust, and Peter Jackson's King Kong.

Check out the costumer's gallery for the former at
http://outfit.co.za/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Ask-The-Dust

And check out the production diaries (especially the New York 1933 relevent productions days which fall mainly between 68 -97) of the latter at
http://www.kongisking.net/index.shtml

 

[MK]

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Don't know the first one....unless that is the gumshoe movie with Travolta.....but I am really excited to see Kong.


BTW: great avatar.

 

[jake_fink]

Ask the Dust

Ask the Dust is one of the great but unsung novels of the 1930s, an influence on Charles Bukowski among others. It is being brought to the screen by Robert Towne, the writer of Chinatown, for which Ask the Dust was actually the inspiration. He's been trying for decades to make this film and it is finally finished. Filmed in South Africa, it is set largely in Bunker Hill circa 1936-7. I'm really looking forward to this film as I love (prefer) "real" depictions of the period to the heghtened and cartoony (though in a good way) depictions in films like the Shadow, the Phantom and The Rocketeer. The only problem I see in the Ask the Dust film is the cast; Colin Farrell is playing the lead and I cannot say I'm a fan.

Here's more:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384814/

And even more:
http://www.postroadmag.com/9/recommends/AskTheDust.phtml

And even an excerpt: Chapters four and five from the Anthology of 30s prose.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/White/anthology/fante.html

Enjoy.

 

[Michael Mallory]

"Ask the Dust" is a great novel, and Fante is one of my favorite writers. But I almost hate to hear that someone is filming it. I don't know that it's all that "filmable." Oh well, at least it's not a 1960s TV series.