"A Walk in the Woods" movie back in production

[Mrs Baggins]

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/richard-linklater-to-take-a-walk-in-the-woods-with-robert-redford-nick-nolte-20130403?fb_action_ids=577889482229571&fb_action_t ypes=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_obj ect_map={%22577889482229571%22%3A290313887767406}& action_type_map={%22577889482229571%22%3A%22og.lik es%22}&action_ref_map=[]

Personally, I don't like the idea of making Bryson and Katz into a couple of gray haired geezers. Just cast it as it was written if you're going to do it. Kind of like making a James Bond movie, but casting a 5' tall 350 lb sumo wrestler as Bond and then saying "It'll be just like the books, only different!"

[Sarcasm the elf]

Well, there goes the neighborhood...

[SCRUB HIKER]

Interesting ... here's a better link. http://tinyurl.com/d9ffm3a

[Spirit Bear]

Only half of the book is about their hiking adventure, the other half is filler to please bryson's novel company.

How are they going to make a full length movie on half a novel?

[Two Speed]

Car wrecks, explosions and other assorted drama.

[Train Wreck]

High speed shuttle chases, random acts of shelter carving, and lots of crying

[Mags]

An excellent writer is doing the screenplay (Russo) and an excellent director will be heading it up (Linklater). Could be very good.

Or not.

[Pedaling Fool]

I've been thinking about this movie lately, because I seem to remember someone saying that Redford was some how involved with a movie that was in the works depicting the life of Jackie Robinson and that movie just came out, or is about to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(film)

[Mrs Baggins]

Interesting ... here's a better link. http://tinyurl.com/d9ffm3a

Sorry, I don't know how to do the "tinyurl" thing.

[Cookerhiker]

Redford and Nolte are too old to play the parts. OTOH, the general movie-going public probably won't notice.

[kayak karl]

the movie should make for some interesting threads in the future

[Coosa]

As a former Georgian with many friends in the North Georgia and Hiawassee area, I have often taken umbrage at all the hype that Bill Bryson got for besmirching Southerners with his 'tall tale.' I know at least half a dozen Georgians who were even more vocal than I. Littering is not 'funny' except to Bryson and Katz. Making fun of Mrs. Mull's mother [I believe it was] was 'tacky' to say the least and mean-spirited. We don't do that in the South. But we DO have long memories.

One thing I found interesting as I did Trail Angeling after Bryson's book came out was the many comments I got from Thru Hikers about how they'd read the book and were concerned about what kind of people they'd find in Georgia, but found us to be very nice people and not at all like Bryson described.

And YES I did read the book when it came out [friend loaned it to me].

I know a LOT of hikers read the book and it's what got them interested in hiking the AT ... but it could have been written without the bias and prejudice against the South.

If someone used the same style here on WB, they'd be given a private email asking them to tone down the rhetoric, would they not?

[kayak karl]

and your opinion on "Deliverance"

[Cookerhiker]

the movie should make for some interesting threads in the future

Yes, just like the book has made for many, many interesting threads in the past.

[MuddyWaters]

Singular worst idea Ive heard of all year.

What made the the book good, was Brysons style of writing.
Certainly not storyline.
That cant be duplicated in a movie.

mega flop coming on

[erieite]

I must be in the minority because I really was disappointed in the book.

[Cookerhiker]

Singular worst idea Ive heard of all year.

What made the the book good, was Brysons style of writing.
Certainly not storyline.
That cant be duplicated in a movie.

mega flop coming on

Very good point. The only way it could possibly appeal to a mass audience is through substantial additions to the script such that it would be unrecognizable.

[Teacher & Snacktime]

I loved the book...read it twice and it inspired me to read his other works. But Redford playing a 41 year old? Only in Walking Dead would that work. Makeup only goes so far.

[Fur Queue]

Age is surely irrelevant to the bigger story? I would imagine that the movie wouldn't be a re-enactment...they seldom are...and are usually all the more inresting for it. Two guys, old friends, confronting themselves, and the inevitability of time and nature is some classic ingredients...

[WingedMonkey]

Not a fan of "A Walk in the Woods", lucky for me I hiked the trail before Bryson did. But Nolte looks like the average Trail Days hiker to me.





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