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David Cronenberg to film London Fields (Toronto Sun,
March 23, 2004. |
| From the Telegraph, 5 May 2002:
 | "MARTIN AMIS is to launch
himself on Hollywood by adapting a Jane Austen novel into a romantic comedy
film for teenagers.
Amis, the author of dark satires such as London Fields
and Money, is writing the screenplay for Northanger Abbey, the
only Austen novel not to have been made into a feature film." (Click
here for full story). |
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| "Northanger Abbey adaptation nixed?
| According to Nigel Reynolds,
writing in the 16 August 2003 Telegraph,
"Amis began to adapt Jane Austen's NORTHANGER
ABBEY into a romantic teen comedy for Miramax a couple of years ago but the
project seems to have fizzled out."
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| "Dental
Dementia." All the latest news, reviews, and interviews concerning Dead
Babies, the movie.
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| Philip French, writing in The Guardian, considering
memorable moments in cinema history, remembers Martin
Amis's big movie moment (22 August 1999).
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| More on Amis & A High Wind in
Jamaica.
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| News of a now-aborted (as of 1 July 1999) film adaptation
of London Fields. For ongoing discussion of this and related film adaptation
projects, click here.
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| News of a film adaptation of Dead Babies--and Amis's
optioning of his other novels (excerpts from a 5/23/99 London Times article).
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| Director Nicolas Roeg signs to film Night Train (The
Times (London) 17 June 1999).
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| Amis at
the Internet Movie Database (Information on Amis's screenplay for Saturn 3,
the film version of The Rachel Papers, and Amis's role in A High Wind in
Jamaica). To have a look at Hector the Robot from Saturn 3, click here.
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| VIDEO BOOKSHELF:*
| To order a videotape of Saturn 3 (screenplay by Martin
Amis) click
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| To order videotapes of recent films Amis has reviewed, click on
the titles below:
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OTHER INFORMATION ON AMIS'S
FILM INVOLVEMENTS:
| Amis's comment on Tim Burton's film Mars Attacks, whose
script he worked on (from Amis' remarks during his appearance at Barbara's Bookstore,
February 3, 1998):
| "I rather liked it, though it contained not a word I
wrote." |
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| Amis on proposed film adaptations of his novels (from Amis's
remarks during his appearance at Barbara's Bookstore, February 3, 1998):
| He noted that five of his novels are currently optioned for films,
and that several years ago Gary Oldman was poised to make a film of Money in
which he would play John Self. Amis told of visiting Oldman on a film set, where Oldman
enthusiastically mimicked John Self's persona. "I have a great new cough,"
Oldman boasted. (To read Oldman's account of this encounter, click
here). |
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| More film adaptations in the works:
| According to an article in the 23 August 1998 London Times,
four of Amis's novels are "set to be filmed over the next 12 months." These
include London Fields (see above), as well as Dead Babies, Money, and The
Information. The author of the article, Arts Correspondent John Harlow, reports that
Amis has "refused offers to write the scripts" but has put his "moral
support" behind the projects. Details about the individual projects:
 | Dead Babies will be produced by Richard Holmes, producer
of last year's comedy Shooting Fish. Bill Marsh is set to direct. "An
application for lottery aid towards the £2.5 million film will be considered by the Arts
Council next week," Harlow reported. "If the Arts Council shakes off its
reputation for funding only period dramas and backs the contemporary script, filming would
start in November and Dead Babies would be shown at the Cannes film festival in
May." |
| The Information is being produced by Paradigm Pictures, a
Los Angeles production company. |
| According to Harlow, "Amis has approved the choice of Gary
Oldman for a film version of Money." However, when Amis appeared in Chicago in
February 1997, he said this film project never got off the ground. |
| According to London Fields film producer Craig
Cadwallader and Livia Hanich, Minnie Driver has been signed to play Nicola Six (click here or the image below to go to the London
Fields web site).
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AMIS'S FILM REVIEWS
AND ESSAYS ON THE FILM INDUSTRY:
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| "Age
Will Win." Amis reviews Richard Eyre's highly-praised film about
Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Alzheimer's disease, and "the tragedy of
time" (Guardian Unlimited, 21 December 2001).
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| "A
Rough Trade." Amis reports on his visit to the San Fernando Valley
porn industry for the 17 March 2001 Guardian (this
essay originally appeared as “Sex
in America” in Talk magazine (February
2001: 98-103, 133-35).
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| "The
world according to Spielberg." From "The Observer
Century in Films," the Guardian & Observer online, 21
November 1982.
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