Oh my God, Cronenberg is making London Fields.

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I don't know if this matters to anyone here, but seriously. O. M. G.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

What's London Fields?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

A railway station in Hackney.

(and a book too)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679730346.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

An early Martin Amis novel. I liked it a lot when I read it, and have been not reading it again since on the suspicion that it was actually pants.

xpost - and a bloody big park!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

strangley inappropriate cover for that book i think.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

It is a weird cover for it, I agree. I associate the yellow and black with it so much now, though, that I don't like imagining anything else on there.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's the american cover, ie shit.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

no idea if it's filmable. like andrew, i am scared it might be shit, though i did like it a lot. i never liked it as much as 'money', cos of nicola.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure I'll balk at the Nicola and Keith casting.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

in fact i can barely remember it. perhaps amis should play the narrator.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't look like an American cover - surely just about all novels in America have the words "a novel" somewhere on the cover. Just in case you didn't realise.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

english hardback cover (more appropriate):

http://www.auntyannesattic.ca/images/London%20Fields.JPG

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. love that.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that was the American cover, I remember - I was living in America at the time it came out.

I'm scared of what Cronenberg will do to it, but then again, I'm just relieved it's not another silly remake of a crap film...

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

amis related fillums thus far -

dead babies (straight to video)
the rachel papers (pretty disastrous)
saturn 3 (feat. that bloody awful screenplay he wrote)

guess where this is going..

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

surely just about all novels in America have the words "a novel" somewhere on the cover. Just in case you didn't realise.

surely. we're all just that stupid.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm i'm not sure where you're getting yr info roxy. i know this project has been knocking around for ages and i just checked one of the fan sites

http://www.blue-bottle.co.uk/Cronenberg_news.htm

which contains the following very recent quote from D.C abt London Fields: "It's still a possibility. There is a script that Martin Amis wrote with Roberta Hanley of his novel, and it's a project I'm interested in. It's sort of on a back burner, I would say. It's about third in line."

What is it w/ DC and English novs, btw (eg Spider, Crash, even A History of Violence, sort of)?

DC has to have been associated w/ more unrealised projects than just abt any other director i can think - wasn't he down to do Basic Instinct 2 at one point??

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. what was 'a history of violence' based on?

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

a graphic novel

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

He's Canadian, so practically British anyway.

xpost - "A History of Violence" was based on some comic. I don't know if it was British or not.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

another king of the unrealized project and anglophile = terry gilliam.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Written by John Wagner, so yes. (Although published by an American company)

Actually, the film totally cops out of violence compared to the comic.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

i can't find any specific confirmations but it looks like there are a few things around from later in march that claim that casting is starting.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Just by the real London Fields, some wag ran the Keith Talent gallery a few years ago. It's still somewhere in Hackney.

I went to see MA read from LF in NYC, and he wore a ridiculous safari jumpsuit ill-suited to a man who's about as tall as Prince. My friend was having kittens because Richard Butler was in the audience.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.celebheights.com/

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

oops

http://www.celebheights.com/s/-Prince-1332.html

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

(no entry for Martin Amis)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0404207/

Ugh, the description on that is making me nauseous.

A "psychic"? That's not on.

i walked past london fields the other day

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

the actual place

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

drinking, would you believe it, a kronenberg

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

(this is truth!)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm... hmmm...
Who knows? Amis hasn't translated to film well yet (Dexter Fletcher getting naked with Ione Skye! Oh the injustice!), but Cronenberg directing is another thing. Interesting choice for him.

The cover of my copy, and the one I associate with LF, and very nineties it is too:

http://www.shop.dayala.co.uk/books/LondonFields.jpg

― David Orton (scarlet), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

eighteen years pass...

martin amis is the invention of a ~~very clever~~ venereal disease

― mark s, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 08:09 (nine months ago)

this never happened, but this did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fields_(film)

did anyone see it? apparently it is awful

(I quite liked London Fields but the caveat there is that I read it in 1990 and have not revisited it)

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:12 (nine months ago)

I went to London Fields the other day, no sign of Cronenberg anywhere

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:26 (nine months ago)

"The film was released in 2018 and is one of the few films to hold an approval rating of 0% on the website Rotten Tomatoes."

― Number None, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:30 (nine months ago)

I wonder if it's worse than the Carol Morley Out Of Blue

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:33 (nine months ago)

I remember a UK arts prog (South Bank Show?) on Amis around the time of London Fields' publication that had dramatised scenes with Harry Enfield as Keith Talent. Never seen it since.

― fetter, Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:42 (nine months ago)

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