{"id":5062,"date":"2021-01-30T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2021-01-30T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T20:43:29","slug":"any-more-updike-movies-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/01\/30\/any-more-updike-movies-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Any more Updike movies in the works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-30-at-1.48.53-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5063\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-30-at-1.48.53-PM-300x84.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-30-at-1.48.53-PM-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-30-at-1.48.53-PM.png 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <em>Hastings Tribune<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Rich Heldenfels<\/strong> (Tribune News Service, Nebraska) was asked by a reader, &#8220;Do you know of any plans to make (remake) a film based on any John Updike novels?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hastingstribune.com\/ap\/entertainment\/television-q-a-more-on-transplant\/article_5e148bb9-fe87-5b6d-b258-0285181e8793.html\">Heldenfels replied<\/a>, &#8220;I do not know of any plans. There have been a few adaptations of the works of Updike, one of the most admired American writers. There\u2019s a 1970 movie of his novel <em>Rabbit, Run<\/em>, with James Caan, TV-movie <em>Too Far to Go<\/em> (1979) from Updike short stories, movies and TV productions inspired by the novel <em>The Witches of Eastwick<\/em> and a few shorter productions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shortly after Updike died in 2009 at the age of 76, Scott Timberg pondered Updike\u2019s &#8216;dozens of novels and several hundred short stories&#8217; for <a href=\"http:\/\/thewrap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/thewrap.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1612115744579000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEKZ4pkmJskeLDd9FplSTSU_KLz0Q\">TheWrap.com<\/a> and saw several reasons why Updike did not make it to the movies much. One was style: &#8216;His writing is so visual, at the level of image and metaphor, it\u2019s almost redundant to put it into a visual medium.&#8217; In addition, \u2018The &#8220;American small town, Protestant middle class&#8221; as he described his milieu, has not been of very big interest, personally or cinematically, to the Hollywood establishment.&#8217; (<em>The Witches of Eastwick<\/em> with its supernatural element was thought more accessible for audiences.) Nor has Updike had a film-industry champion eager to put his work onscreen the way some other writers of his era have, Timberg wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hastings Tribune&#8216;s Rich Heldenfels (Tribune News Service, Nebraska) was asked by a reader, &#8220;Do you know of any plans to make (remake) a film based on any John Updike novels?&#8221; Heldenfels replied, &#8220;I do not know of any plans. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/01\/30\/any-more-updike-movies-in-the-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5064,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/5064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}