[percy-l] New John Kennedy Toole Movie
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Fri Feb 3 20:14:35 EST 2017
Yes!
On Feb 3, 2017 7:24 PM, "Charles Lowry" <lowry.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
> My recollection--and it is only that--is that many years ago, when an
> ultimately abandoned attempt to film The Moviegoer was undertaken, Sam
> Waterston had been engaged to play Binx Bolling. He is surely too old for
> that role now, but I bet he would be a great Walker Percy.
>
> Chuck Lowry
> Brooklyn, NY
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 3, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Burma Jones <lesliemarsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> P.S. Also tickets are now on sale for the WP Weekend: https://
> manwithoutqualities.com/2017/02/01/walker-percy-weekend-17/
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Burma Jones <lesliemarsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If anyone want to read a close-grained review of Cory's bio of Toole,
>> here it is: https://manwithoutqualities.com/2014/03/24/butterfly-in-
>> the-typewriter-critical-notice-of-toole-biography/
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Charles Cowherd <
>> charlescowherd at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Exciting news with possible connection to Walker Percy.
>>> A movie is being made about the life of John Kennedy Toole (author of *A
>>> Confederacy of Dunces*) based on the book “Butterfly in the Typewriter”
>>> by Corey Mclaughlin.
>>> Nick Offerman is to play Ignatius Reilly, Thomas Mann (?) will be John
>>> Kennedy Toole, with Susan Sarandon as his mother.
>>> Possibilities to play Percy (complete speculation) just based on the
>>> cast list from the article: Matthew Modine, Aidan Quinn, Carey Elwes.
>>> I have written the writer to see if he has the inside scoop, will pass
>>> along any info that I receive.
>>> ~ Charles
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