Ellis' Screenplay for 'The Frog King' Gets Picked Up
I didn't even know BEE had been working on this, but apparently Ellis wrote a screenplay to Adam Davies debut novel The Frog King. From the Amazon description of the book:Harry Driscoll, raisedIf anybody has read The Frog King, I'd be interested in what you all thought of it.in privilege and Ivy League-educated, is a peon at a prestigious New York publishing house--in fact, the house is called Prestige--and he hates it: hates the menial labor, hates the intellectual pretension, hates the political jockeying necessary to advancement. Driscoll is terrific on the disappointment peculiar to the overeducated and underemployed: "All those years of schooling (Yes I speak Old English!) and resumé building. (Yes I interned on Capitol Hill!) didn't pertain at all to the life that was waiting for me."
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[1] On Aug-12-2004, suicidemartini wrote:...like I told ya, I thought the script was terrible. The main character is so unsympathetic. There's no reason to care about what happens to him. Joshua Jackson has been rumored to be attached, which I find fitting since I don't like him either.
I don't know whose fault it is. I want to believe Ellis did a good job adapting the book, which just happened to blow.
[2] On Aug-12-2004, Bret wrote:
Damn, that was only a month ago, and I entirely forgot about your email on this subject.
[3] On Aug-19-2004, soapboy wrote:
I read this book two years ago while in costa rica. loved it. funny, a little sweet and dead-on when it comes to straight guys unable to make sense of their lives or the women in them. by the end, you're rooting for the lead to get his head out of his butt and make things right with his girlfriend.