A confederacy of dunces

[grandma death]

Any fans of this book?

According to Wikipedia they are attempting to have it made into a film with James Bobin (director flight of the conchords) at the helm- but I'm mostly interested in who would play Ignatious.

I have two in mind- Judah Friedlander (of 30 rock fame) and Zach Galifinakis (who has revealed in an interview that Ignatious is his most desired film role).

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Judah is perhaps my preferred for the role- he plays a splendid Ignatious-esque character in 30 rock and also his small role in American Splendor was fine work

[grandma death]

who cares about Christian Grey, i wanna find my ignatious!

[Worm]

I'd have said Benedict Cumberbatch, prior to seeing "Sherlock", but now I can't see it. Judah Friedlander would be good, yes. I don't necessarily see Ignatius Reilly as a slob, though. A younger Crispin Glover, for example, would have been very good. As a dark horse, I've always liked Patrick Fischler ("Mulholland Drive", Jimmy Barrett of "Mad Men"). Not as true to the book, but it's the character I see when I think of him.

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loved the book ever since first reading it many years ago and got to know the statue in New Orleans really well on an acid trip almost 20 years ago :cool:
as for a film of it?
while part of me shudders at the thought, I would love to see Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role
ever since seeing him as Capote I have thought this
I know he seems a bit old for the part, but with make up and hair dye I think he could still pull it off :thumb:

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I'd have said Benedict Cumberbatch, prior to seeing "Sherlock", but now I can't see it. Judah Friedlander would be good, yes. I don't necessarily see Ignatius Reilly as a slob, though. A younger Crispin Glover, for example, would have been very good. As a dark horse, I've always liked Patrick Fischler ("Mulholland Drive", Jimmy Barrett of "Mad Men"). Not as true to the book, but it's the character I see when I think of him.

interesting choices- you have chosen skinnier actors than i was imagining. To be honest i've always pictured an overweight, slobbish and unkempt character but he needs to have the delivery of say Richard E Grant in Withnail and I. He needs to come across intelligent and articulate but also be physically unappealing in appearance (or mildy so).
Maybe what is needed is a fat Richard E Grant haha

[grandma death]

loved the book ever since first reading it many years ago and got to know the statue in New Orleans really well on an acid trip almost 20 years ago :cool:
as for a film of it?
while part of me shudders at the thought, I would love to see Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role
ever since seeing him as Capote I have thought this
I know he seems a bit old for the part, but with make up and hair dye I think he could still pull it off :thumb:

yeah i guess there is always the danger with film adaptions of much loved books that they will completely miss the mark. I think a young Phillip Seymour Hoffman would probably have been perfect.
In a ideal world it would be an overweight Withnail-esque character...

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I read the book about two or three years ago after reading about it for a few years previous. To be sincere , I didn't think much of it at all and I certainly don't understand how it attained cult-like status. That's not true - I suspect it has a great deal to do with the author's suicide and the tale of his mother shopping it about endlessly for takers .

I was waiting for the book to begin ... and it never did. I still don't see the appeal/interest of the main character ; his ostensibly "endearing-because-it-so-isn't" fuckedup-edness reminded me of Gilligan - you know, initially amusing , then irritating ,then just boring.

Sorry, grandma death ( what an odd phrase that is to say !) , I gather it's not much fun seeing someone vomit disdain over a favoured book/song/film, etc.

I mean this question quite sincerely - why were/are you so fond of this particular book ?