A film version of the slacker noir comedy is in the works. Do you feel Jonathan and co need big-screen 'closure'? And which other TV shows deserve the same treatment?
The news that HBO is working with Jonathan Ames to create a film version of slacker noir comedy Bored to Death makes me both excited and sad. On one hand who wouldn't like to see Jonathan, George and Ray – Aka Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis – reunite to fight crime, get stoned and drink wine on the big screen? Not least because it will help scrub from fans' minds that decidedly creepy ending: when we left Jonathan, he was squaring his conscience regarding his incestuous relationship with his unaware sister.
Yet it's also true that fans shouldn't start celebrating too soon: talk of a movie might end up being just that. It wasn't so long ago that we were...
The news that HBO is working with Jonathan Ames to create a film version of slacker noir comedy Bored to Death makes me both excited and sad. On one hand who wouldn't like to see Jonathan, George and Ray – Aka Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis – reunite to fight crime, get stoned and drink wine on the big screen? Not least because it will help scrub from fans' minds that decidedly creepy ending: when we left Jonathan, he was squaring his conscience regarding his incestuous relationship with his unaware sister.
Yet it's also true that fans shouldn't start celebrating too soon: talk of a movie might end up being just that. It wasn't so long ago that we were...
- 1/25/2013
- by Sarah Hughes
- The Guardian - Film News
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