Directing David Foster Wallace
An interview with John Krasinski of NBC's The Office on the release of Leatherheads. But more interestingly, the interview touches upon his first directorial effort: making David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men:
[A]ll of a sudden I got “The Office,” and right after we shot the pilot, I took pretty much all the money that I had made on that and bought the rights for a film. His agent said no at first, so I flew out to L.A. and sat with her, and said: “I know that I’m young, and I haven’t really done anything, but your client, he wrote an incredible book. I just wanted more people to know about David Foster Wallace.”
(thx, bill)
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I went through a lot of different evolutions of trying to make it a more cinematically palatable movie, and tie in things that definitely aren’t in the book, including a pseudo love story. Every time it just didn’t work.
It worries me he thought it would.
JK is also on the cover of this month's Boston magazine...hometown hero.
i hate it when i feel resentment for someone i genuinely find to be talented and funny.
oh, john krasinski. so funny. so age 29. so from newton. so rich and sort of famous.
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