Peter Bogdanovich is an interesting character. While he’s made an eclectic bunch of movies, from The Last Picture Show and Mask to What’s Up Doc? and The Cat’s Meow, they’re udoubtedly always interesting. Now Screen Daily reports that he’s planning to adapt and direct Kurt Anderson’s best-selling book, Turn Of The Century, for the big screen, with shooting planned for New York this spring.
Described as a ‘high stakes social drama’, the book is set in early 2000 and revolves around a professional couple who struggle to hold onto their lives and family as they spiral into a calamity brought about by pace and moral vacuousness of modern life. While some have described the book as pretentious and over-hyped, others were gripped by its satire on the modern media. It also drew comparisons to the works of Tom Wolfe.
It could certainly make an interesting movie, and as Bogdanovich is a man as interested in ideas as plot, he could be the one to do it.