"A Walk in the Woods" movie back in production

[Different Socks]

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

Add 1 to that group.

[Different Socks]

Is it all possible that if some of the particular storylines from the book make it into the movie, it could end up giving the AT a bad rep?

[Sarcasm the elf]

Is it all possible that if some of the particular storylines from the book make it into the movie, it could end up giving the AT a bad rep?

Given how often non-hikers ask me if the trail in the south is inhabited by folks like the ones in deliverance, I would say people's opinions are easily swayed by movies. A mainstream movie about the trail could easily give it a bad name, or it could make the trail obnoxiously popular and crowded for a couple of years. We'll have to wait and see...

[Tuckahoe]

My take is that hikers are like reenactors, and take themselves too serious. Hikers will take immediate offense at what is otherwise a diverse, accurate and humorous depiction of trail culture...

[Pedaling Fool]

My take is that hikers are like reenactors, and take themselves too serious. Hikers will take immediate offense at what is otherwise a diverse, accurate and humorous depiction of trail culture...

Funny, but true.

[Almost There]

My take is that hikers are like reenactors, and take themselves too serious. Hikers will take immediate offense at what is otherwise a diverse, accurate and humorous depiction of trail culture...

Well said! If people really want to be offended they should read his "Lost Continent" where he travels around the country and makes fun of everyone including himself. Sometimes people just need thicker skins.

[Lone Wolf]

My take is that hikers are like reenactors, and take themselves too serious. Hikers will take immediate offense at what is otherwise a diverse, accurate and humorous depiction of trail culture...

yup. good book. he captured the southern AT perfectly. i was on the AT that year. all other books are just plain azz boring

[Datto]

I loved the book. If anything has made the AT even more famous it's Bill Bryson. I know people in the hiking community have less than a stellar opinion of Bill Bryson (for whatever reason) but he put the AT on the map for the general population of America.

I'm thinking Steve Carell as Bryson and John Goodman as Katz for believability.

If you haven't see John Goodman lately in the movie Argo or the movie Flight you'd have a much greater appreciation of John Goodman's talent. Argo is an excellent movie if you're looking for something to rent/watch. I couldn't watch the entire Flight movie -- too many bad memories of being on those types of flights in a past life where the plane went cockeyed.

By the way -- the funniest line in the book is where "what's your trailname" is asked. Still cracks me up.


Datto

[importman77]

I loved the book. If anything has made the AT even more famous it's Bill Bryson. I know people in the hiking community have less than a stellar opinion of Bill Bryson (for whatever reason) but he put the AT on the map for the general population of America.

I'm thinking Steve Carell as Bryson and John Goodman as Katz for believability.

If you haven't see John Goodman lately in the movie Argo or the movie Flight you'd have a much greater appreciation of John Goodman's talent. Argo is an excellent movie if you're looking for something to rent/watch. I couldn't watch the entire Flight movie -- too many bad memories of being on those types of flights in a past life where the plane went cockeyed.

By the way -- the funniest line in the book is where "what's your trailname" is asked. Still cracks me up.


Datto

Have to say I liked the book as well. I can't wait to see how they play the scene of Katz trying to pick up the 350 lb girl at the laundromat and the ensuing chase by her 600 lb redneck husband. I rolled when I read that part. "She's got a great body too, it's just hiding under 200 lbs of fat"

[Mags]

I'm thinking Steve Carell as Bryson and John Goodman as Katz for believability.

I can totally see this!

BTW, Goodman was awesome in Treme as well. (I'm also a sucker for anything by David Simon)


In any case, it is just a light hearted, fun and easy read. Something to read while waiting for connecting flights. Not sure why people get so offended.

Yes, he poked fun at the south.

He also pokes fun at himself and other places where he goes. Heck, I'm sure if he wrote about the northeast, he'd write about the over caffeinated people who talk funny. I'd laugh along....

[Tuckahoe]

I can totally see this!

BTW, Goodman was awesome in Treme as well. (I'm also a sucker for anything by David Simon)

Hee hee, I'm thinking Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

[waasj]

They did. It with the Lorax and The Grinch, why not Bryson and Katz??

[Ladytrekker]

I got the impression in the book that Katz didn't exist that he was Bryson alter ego, was I the only one that read it that way.

[Mags]

I got the impression in the book that Katz didn't exist that he was Bryson alter ego, was I the only one that read it that way.

Katz exists:
http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/show...out-of-the-bag

http://dailynewthing.wordpress.com/2...-i-needed-one/

[max patch]

I got the impression in the book that Katz didn't exist that he was Bryson alter ego, was I the only one that read it that way.

He existed.

They were both at Rainbow Springs and Jensine showed me their charge tickets. She hated that book.

[staehpj1]

I like Bryson, but though this particular book was his worst. If it does become a movie, I will wait until I can see it for free.

[redseal]

I'm torn. I like the idea of the movie but I also do not want the trail to become more popular :-)

[Bucherm]

I liked the book.

I really do not understand people who go "well maybe they can actually THRU-HIKE IT next time".

There are literally dozens of memoirs of people who thru-hiked. Go read those if that's so important to you.

[Spirit Bear]

The dude should be playing katz.

[Luddite]

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

That's exactly what happened with the On The Road movie.

Linklater is great filmmaker but I don't know how he's going pull this off. Why do they feel it necessary to adapt every single Best selling book into a movie?