A recent Guardian article highlights the fact that one person is largely responsible for the slew of major book adaptations currently either on our screens or in the works. That person is producer Scott Rudin.Here is Anne Thompson on his next collaboration with the Coen Brothers, a film version of Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policeman’s Union.
Among other projects on Rudin's classy slate are Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates, dir. Sam Mendes), Fantastic Mr Fox (Roald Dahl, dir. Wes Anderson), Saturday (Ian MacEwan), The Reader (Bernhard Schlink, dir. Stephen Daldry), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen) and Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy).
In a candid interview on BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' this week, Rudin described how he sees the goal of a good adaptation as being 'the excavation of the literary impulse', while acknowledging that 'everything in a movie gets reduced to narrative... that's all it is.' He also revealed that his most cherished project is a long-mooted version of another Chabon novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
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