A Hollywood producer has just approached you to write and direct a $200 million adaptation of Finnegans Wake...

I didn't know I wanted this to be a thing until now.

This.
And this.

I take 25 million dollars, live the rest of my life in comfort and freedom and hire someone else to make the movie with the rest of the budget

>some experimental Harmony Korine shit
lol please

I would make it a anime

If you're doing anything other than buying a cheap camera and making a shitty short film and taking the rest of the money, you're fucking up

i'd put it all in a mutual fund

well the entire point is the audio and sounds of the prose

but I would probably do a bunch of historical and biblical scenes around dublin

Embezzlement 200 million times

Cast Adam Sandler to play HCE

its partially a story told through many people in dublin and at a bar right? and its kinda also a dream of a female character in the book?

so i was thinking to do it kinda like how louis ck did horace and pete, like a live action mutli cam operation, but then have it also be mad transitional and trippy like how danny perez did oddsac for animal collective.

ive heard there was a great radio performance of it. i wish there was recording. its supposedly best read in a group while drinking.

Top kek

I'd be a real Barton Fink.

> Harmony Korine
> experimental

Well, at least you got the "shit" part right.

Probably make something like Blue Velvet, but instead of having Isabella Rossellini singing that song, I'd just add a Captain Beefhart tribute band and have them play TMR for three hours

I would start by reading the Wikipedia synopsis so that I could fake having read the novel. Then I would probably just do a book on tape voice over on a black and white slow motion Angela's Ashes.

>I would start by reading the Wikipedia synopsis so that I could fake having read the novel

you are such a pseud you don't even know that the wiki page doesn't have a synopsys, lmao.

>Take a trip to Dublin
>Visit random pubs
>Dose everyone
>???
>Profit

Splice random Irish gay porn vids together and add an orchestral soundtrack. 5 million dollars opening night.

I'd get my ass to Dublin, hire some great crews and animators, and have a blast wasting millions.

Have you guys seen his early stuff?

Let someone read it, show a still image of Dublin

Assume nobody (like me) has read it. Assume it is set in Dublin.
Make my own film. Pass it off as this but then, when in old age, after becoming an incredibly successful director (as a direct result), refute this 'adaptation', and actually make an adaptation of Finnegan's Wake - I'm guessing at the age of 90.

Audio play in a massive studio space in complete darkness, the viewers guided by blind people through a surreal, hallusinatory audioscape of Dublin.

Except somebody already made a Finnegans Wake film.

So, recreate it on the cheap, pass it off as my own work, walk off with most of the money.

youtube.com/watch?v=cibQA_LNe9s&ab_channel=DavidVaipan