The director of Wild Wild West is adapting Delillo's White Noise

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Discuss.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Will Tim Allen star?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Chris Rock.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

carrot top!!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

"Professor of Hitler Studies communicates with dead people in television and empty-room static, except only dead people killed by an Airborne Event, or else non-dead people on a drug that makes them not fear death."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I predict Babette will be nothing like the way I imagine her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Babette will probably end up being played by Mandy Moore.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

kenneth branaugh should play jack. babette should be... i dunno! who?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

he is such a douche

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

yes but so is jack!!!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

haha!!

sonnenfeld is so weird. do you ever read his column in esquire?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

babette should be played by philip seymore hoffman

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

He's a good character actor.

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

AWESOME BOOK.....BUMMER.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Sadder still, they'll probably retitle it to avoid confusion with the recent Michael Keaton movie.

― Chris L, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Gus Van Sant's White Noize Board and Pickle Bar

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

the dinner conversation scene :(

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Ya never know, Adrian Lyne made a decent "Lolita." And HEY, same screenwriter as that one here (Stephen Schiff).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Streep might make a decent Babette.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

adrain lyne also made jacob's ladder, so at least there was some positive history!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

well sonnenfeld WAS the coen bros' DP (and was good at it) so there's some positive history there too.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

>adrain lyne also made jacob's ladder, so at least there was some positive history!<

Oh you kid!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

This could potentially not be horrible.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

i love jacob's ladder!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

me too

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I do hope they get Will Smith for the lead, after witnessing his fine acting skills in last summer's "I Robot."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I read "White Noise" when it came out, liked it fine, and certainly can't remember anything about it but the toxic cloud now.

"It was all a deathbed dream" movies AND Mariah?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

haha morbs, you know i have no taste!!

even without the ending, jacob's ladder was straight-up creepy, and the end actually made me happy! tim was just too sweet to get fucked with that way.

and how can you hate mariah???

white noise is one of my favorite books. i can't imagine it as a film though.

did anyone see game six, the delillo-penned flick about the mets-sox series?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

jesus morbius you must be fun at parties!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

i hope they retain as much of delillo's dialogue as possible. this could be wonderfully bizarre.

marketing it as a comedy might be a rather bad idea.

― dental hygienist, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Who told you my first name was Jesus, slock? And I'm a blast!

Sonnenfeld's "Get Shorty" played the material too broadly, I thought, but everybody certainly made out well on that.

I don't hate Mariah, Jams -- having any kind of strong opinion on her is unfathomable.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

i really didn't like get shorty

and i really hated be cool, did anyone else beside me see that piece of shit? (only sonnenfeld-produced iirc)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

i liked get shorty, even though it was a will-o-wisp of a flick. it suffered too much from the post-pulp fiction concept of cool, but the source material was good enough to sustain it. (and hackman!!!!!!!)

out of sight is one of my favorite movies ever.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

me too!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

(how does it relate to this discussion though?)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

it relates in that we are blood brothers, slocki, and morbs is our tru noize enemy (who i also love)(this is very confusing)

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

oh no! i'm not sure about this. white noise is one of my favourite books, i don't want it to be ruined in a crappy movie. however the dialogue could potentially make a tops movie. confusing!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

ben stiller as jack gladney, owen wilson as murray jay siskind.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

oh no oh no

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

haha you are v. cute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

it's been a while since i read the book, but i am remembering babette as this very sensuous, fleshy woman but also very sharp and forthright. so that's what made me think of streep. maybe anjelica huston, too? except maybe both of those actresses are too old: don't jack and babette have an infant son?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is delillo doing letting it be optioned or whatever is what i wanna know. and will this support some sort of quicker turnaround on his next book.

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

$$$$!

There were reports of Malkovich attempting to direct a film of "Libra" about a decade ago.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

well yes $$$$ obviously but if he's not doing well enough he should just be poor and deal!

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

who cares if he sells his rights? the book will still be the same even if somebody makes a bad movie out of it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

er. not if one sees the movie before reading the book.

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

well maybe one shouldn't!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

anyway, lots of great books have had shitty movies adapted from them, it may colour certain people's experiences of them but so may a lot of things

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Conversely, I think this book sucked sloppy balls; a movie adaptation could only improve it.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

quod erat demonstratum

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't think this project is actually going to made anytime soon, as it was announced very very long ago. That being said, I can see Sonnenfeld's attraction to the material as he wrote a NYT piece in which he laid out in detail his love for Kubrick's Dr Strangelove.

Delillo's dialgoue, in this particular novel, reads like the straight delivery in Kubrick's satire. A filmed "White Noise" would be the best cultural update of Dr. Strangelove if nailed right.
Jack should definitely played by Albert Brooks. Just imagine him reading the dialogue in the book when Jack is to talking to best friend of his young son, who plans on climbing into a cage fool of deadly snakes.

― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

does anyone know what happened with this project?

I kind of hope it died solely because the thought of who might get cast as Babette fills me with anxiety.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

it was recently suggested 2 me that dan ackroyd play murray

― max, Friday, 15 January 2010 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

inna bill murray late-career bid for respectability stylee

― max, Friday, 15 January 2010 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

i personally was imagining jeff goldblum or possibly jeff bridges

― max, Friday, 15 January 2010 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

I imagine him as the hippie-looking teacher in The Simpsons. I don't know if he has a name or ever speaks. Or who would play him. But I'm definitely onto something.

― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Friday, 15 January 2010 02:05 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

david markson's notes on white noise and mao ii:

http://readingmarksonreading.tumblr.com/post/5639607687/pg-65-of-david-marksons-copy-of-mao-ii-by

he... did not like delillo very much!

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:32 (fourteen years ago)

five years pass...

Uri Singer’s BB Film Productions has optioned movie rights to Don DeLillo’s eighth novel “White Noise,” with filmmaker Michael Almereyda set to adapt the screenplay.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/dom-delillo-white-noise-movie-1201891089/

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:43 (nine years ago)

the blockbuster scene in his hamlet had a delillo vibe to it.

i imagine murray as leonard maltin doing those disney dvd extras.

― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 07:31 (nine years ago)

legit good development

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 11:37 (nine years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJD7ae11mU

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:17 (three years ago)

Little Miss Sunshine 2: Electric Boogaloo

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 25 August 2022 22:29 (three years ago)

Very teal

― nate woolls, Thursday, 25 August 2022 23:02 (three years ago)

Soundtrack by Airborne Toxic Event?

― jaymc, Thursday, 25 August 2022 23:54 (three years ago)

Getting...Ray Romano vibes from Driver's look?

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 26 August 2022 00:14 (three years ago)

....huh

― Sonned by a comedy podcast after a dairy network beef (bernard snowy), Friday, 26 August 2022 00:33 (three years ago)

First reviews are v positive:

Venice Review ‘White Noise’ : Noah Baumbach Teams With Adam Driver And Greta Gerwig In Wickedly Smart Comedy For Dark Times https://t.co/P9ok3RAAQ5
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 31, 2022

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 20:40 (three years ago)

Baumbach leaves us with a rousing dance number set to a bouncy new ’80s-style song with overtones of death from LCD Soundsystem, as the cast gets down in an immaculately appointed and gorgeously stocked supermarket

Hahahahahahaha fuuuuuck yooooouuuuu

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 20:46 (three years ago)

I hope Noah Baumbach remakes Wild Wild West one day and Yancey Strickler comes back to ILX to comment on it.

― Alba, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:04 (three years ago)

Hit single “Wild Wild West” by Diplo ft. St. Vincent.

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:06 (three years ago)

this sounds excellent and better than the horror tinged trailer made it seem. I haven't read the book since the early 90's myself, I should revisit.

― akm, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:37 (three years ago)

sounds like a ripoff of the end of The Last Days of Disco tbh

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:56 (three years ago)

on the other hand that's one of the all-time great endings

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:57 (three years ago)

baumbach did get his start by aping whit stillman

― adam, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:59 (three years ago)

Whit Stillman might have been a better choice to direct this than Baumbach. But I am decidedly not in the Cult of Don DeLillo, so.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 21:59 (three years ago)

omg this sounds awful. delillo has not aged well imo.

― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:03 (three years ago)

cut-rate pynchon responding purely to white psychodrama

― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:06 (three years ago)

I haven't ready anything of his beyond this book, which I remember finding fairly entertaining but not anything too consequential.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:09 (three years ago)

White Noise feels very 80s/early 90s to me. most of what was interesting about it was absorbed into culture already.

― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:10 (three years ago)

The only thing I recall about White Noise is the notion of an "airborne toxic event" and also Hitler Studies, the latter of which for some reason resonates more for me today than it did whenever I first read the book. Maybe the former, too? Don't want to see this movie, though.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 23:37 (three years ago)

hope the most photographed barn in america makes an appearance

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 1 September 2022 01:23 (three years ago)

The academic scandal was that a Hitler studies professor could not read German. Kinda quaint.

― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 September 2022 01:50 (three years ago)

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