{"id":3691,"date":"2017-02-03T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2017-02-03T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:40:19","slug":"updikes-rabbit-tales-interests-tv-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/02\/03\/updikes-rabbit-tales-interests-tv-screenwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s Rabbit tetralogy interests TV screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-03-at-7.17.41-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3692\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-03-at-7.17.41-AM-276x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-03-at-7.17.41-AM-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-03-at-7.17.41-AM.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>Could we see a TV adaptation of Updike&#8217;s Rabbit tetralogy in the future?<\/p>\n<p>We would if it were up to <strong>Andrew Davies<\/strong>, whose BBC1 adaptation of\u00a0<em>Les Miserables<\/em> is expected to air next year.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old screenwriter announced at a <em>Radio Times <\/em>Covers Party this week that his bucket list includes bringing to the small screen Vikram Seth&#8217;s\u00a0<em>A Suitable Boy,<\/em>\u00a0John Updike&#8217;s Rabbit tetralogy,\u00a0Charles Dickens&#8217; <em>Dombey and Son<\/em>, and a &#8220;mash up&#8221; of Alison Lurie books, as reported by Ben Dowell for <em>Radio Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>See a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2017-02-02\/war-and-peace-screenwriter-andrew-davies-on-les-miserables-tv-adaptation-now-were-in-the-exciting-bit\">clip of Davies<\/a> talking about future projects he hopes to bring to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we see a TV adaptation of Updike&#8217;s Rabbit tetralogy in the future? We would if it were up to Andrew Davies, whose BBC1 adaptation of\u00a0Les Miserables is expected to air next year. The 80-year-old screenwriter announced at a Radio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/02\/03\/updikes-rabbit-tales-interests-tv-screenwriter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}