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EXCLUSIVE: Fox Searchlight has made a deal for Wilson, a Dan Clowes-created graphic novel that the author will adapt as a potential directing vehicle for Alexander Payne. Payne’s Ad Hominem will produce with Josh Donen, on behalf of Sam Raimi’s Stars Road. Wilson tells the story of an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and maybe nobody else and who begins a quest to find human connection with his ex-wife. You know that can’t end well.
Clowes adapted his graphic novel into the Terry Zwigoff-directed Ghost World, and his comic creations include the anthology Eightball. Clowes turned one of those stories into the 2006 film Art School Confidential, which Zwigoff also directed. Mr. Wonderful, the next graphic novel by Clowes, will be published by Pantheon next April. He’s repped by UTA, Payne by CAA.
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Sounds like About Schmidt for the baby boom generation.
Great, funny graphic novel. Ideal Paul Giamatti vehicle. (Philip Seymour Hoffman also springs to mind.)
huzzah! MUFFINS. alexander is the bee’s knees.
this reads BILL MURRAY all over it.
Greenberg and Butthead Do Suburbia
WOO! COMIC BOOKS RULE!
Exactly how many production companies does Sam Raimi have?
Bill Murray, Albert Brooks, or Philip Hoffman. I would go with Brooks.
Will this movie be animated or live action?
YAA RYAN CARROLL!! Best development exec in the biz!!
This is going to rule, because it was so great to read as a comic
so fucked up but so Charlie Brown – CLowes should act in it
Ryan Carroll is the man. Way to play.
Ryan Carroll is the man. Way to play.
Alexander Payne: Come back. I want–so bad–to see your efforts on the big screen again. “Sideways” remains one of my all-time favorites; the ensemble cast is so wonderful and cohesive. I would love to sit with that particular cast at their Golden Globe table. I mean, how cool would it be to share a bottle of wine with Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen? I can’t wait for “Wilson.” Rock on, Alexander Payne.
EVAN ENDICOTT smells like Engrish muffins. He develops like buttah.
Will this program air in the Marysville, Ca. area?
The ideal person for Wilson is Louis CK. I can’t even imagine anyone else, except my husband maybe, for the role.