That rumor that David Foster Wallace had collaborated on a screenplay adaptation of his own massive novel, Infinite Jest within a year before his recent suicide? As we suspected, it’s turned out to be somewhat off the mark––but not completely without a grain of truth. Glenn Kenny, who worked with Wallace on three stories at Premiere (including the infamous David Lynch profile and a story on Terminator 2 which was eventually published elsewhere), made some calls and wrote in with his findings. The gist: there is an Infinite Jest screenplay, which Sam Jones was at one point attached to direct, but other than writing the novel on which it was based, Wallace had nothing to do with it. Full details after the jump.
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A day after learning and announcing that his job at Premiere.com had been eliminated, Glenn Kenny has already set up a new personal blog, free of association with Premiere/Hachette. Well, sort of: the subtitle on the TypePad blog is, currently, “Film writer Glenn Kenny’s own bought-and-paid-for-blog, thank you very goddamn much.” The title-title is Some Came Running, and in the first entry, Kenny explains what he hopes to do with it: “Consider this space the drunken boat we stand in, trying to pull either and/or both of these figures in. Not to be loopy, or maudlin, or anything. Just a fancy way of saying…let’s hang, my friends.”
Related: “Hachette has always been an abortion of a magazine company,” writes Nick Denton at Gawker.
Another week, another dose of frustrating news about the state of film journalism. This morning longtime Premiere film critic (and occasional SpoutBlog commenter) Glenn Kenny used his blog to announce that his “position at Premiere.com is being terminated.” Glenn says he’ll keep up his Premiere-hosted blog if he can; otherwise, he’s looking for freelance work. The comments on his hour-old post are already getting lively; check them out and join in here.
A call with Michel Gondry clears up our misconceptions of Be Kind Rewind–a movie I think is deceptively amazing but Kevin’s on the fence about–and both of us decide he’s a fascinating director. This Sunday, Diablo Cody will be crowned greatest screenwriter of 2008 at the Academy Awards (I predict) for Juno and I also predict it will crush her (and I’m not just saying that because I’m bitter there’s only a minute worth of interview to play here).
*Transcript of Michel Gondry interview after the jump
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