The winner of The Weekly LitWit Challenge 8.2: Pitch a film adaptation is…
We got an interesting set of film adaptation pitches for The Weekly LitWit Challenge 8.2. Any one of them would make a movie far superior to anything Star Cinema, Regal or Viva churned out last year.
Howards End
e-ripley has an idea for a Romeo and Juliet adaptation set in colonial era Zamboanga. Good work, but R&J has been done to death. If you like Oro, Plata, Mata, look up one of its inspirations, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino Visconti, set in the last days of the Sicilian aristocracy. Or read the novel by Lampedusa.
Akyat-Bahay Gangster pitches Brideshead Revisited in 1930s Iloilo/Negros and 1940s Manila. This would work, except that the remake of Brideshead from a couple of years ago with Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw taking over for Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews is a blot on our memory. (Yeah our criteria for judging are completely arbitrary.)
Akyat-Bahay Gangster also suggests E.M. Forster’s Howards End in Malate and New Manila. Hmmm. (Yes, Christopher de Leon and Lorna Tolentino are old enough; Raymond Bagatsing is too old.) But putting the Zombadings team on it is an intriguing notion—their humorous approach would keep it from getting too staid and stately.
Ligayaparaiso’s pitch for Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls starring Roderick Paulate and Vice Ganda: Outstanding! Fabulous! We would invest in that.
kindler’s take on The Great Gatsby in Dumaguete starring Joko Diaz as Tom, Heart Evangelista/Anne Curtis as Daisy, Cogie Domingo as Nick: nice. We dread the forthcoming Baz Luhrmann adaptation. DiCaprio-Maguire-Mulligan are fine, it’s the Luhrmann we have doubts about. Also we haven’t seen a Gatsby adaptation we like. The Jack Clayton version: as pretty and immobile as a fashion magazine layout.
The winner of the Weekly LitWit Challenge 8.2: Pitch a film adaptation iiiiisssss….Ligayaparaiso. Honorable mention to Akyat-Bahay Gangster (for Howards End). Congratulations! You may pick up your prizes at the Customer Service counter, National Bookstore, Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati starting Tuesday 24 January 2012.
The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by our friends at National Bookstore. The next LitWit Challenge is coming up.
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kimedes007, your prize for The Weekly LitWit Challenge 8.1 can be claimed any time at National Bookstore in Rockwell.
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