{"id":116,"date":"2010-04-21T15:53:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewjwahlquist.com\/manwhowasthursday\/?p=116"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:55:14","slug":"scriptshadow-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Scriptshadow Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scriptshadow.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/matt-bird-reviews-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scriptshadow.com&#8217;s Matt Bird<\/a> recently included <em>The Man Who Was Thursday<\/em> as one of six books that have yet to have a movie made (or have one in serious development).\u00a0 The book is cool, what can I say?\u00a0 There probably is a head-trippy contemporary version that could make a smash at the box office.\u00a0 In fact I tried to write one myself, but I never was happy with it.\u00a0 I cane to realize that the book itself is extremely engaging as is, in the time period it is and with the dialog and characters in place.\u00a0 Why mess with a good thing?<\/p>\n<p>This audio play adaptation of the book remains faithful to the original that everyone fell in love with.\u00a0 Of course there are liberties taken, and I&#8217;ve inserted a couple of surprises that I think the fans will like.\u00a0 Oh, and the ending will be just as surreal, so no Hollywood-ization there.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re only a few couple sessions in, so there&#8217;s a lot of work to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scriptshadow.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/matt-bird-reviews-books.html\" target=\"_self\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a> to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scriptshadow.com&#8217;s Matt Bird recently included The Man Who Was Thursday as one of six books that have yet to have a movie made (or have one in serious development).\u00a0 The book is cool, what can I say?\u00a0 There probably is a head-trippy contemporary version that could make a smash at the box office.\u00a0 In fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manwhowasthursday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}