Many of his comics have, much to his great disdain, become big-budget Hollywood films. If you like any of the movies, we suggest you read the original works. They are amazing.

In celebration of his big day, let’s all take a journey into Alan’s vastly imaginative mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutJ0HORpAQ

Enjoy the ride.

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Per the Guardian:

Charlie Kaufman is set to write a big-screen adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five, to be directed by Guillermo del Toro. The screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich is Del Toro’s preferred writer to work on his film of the 1969 Kurt Vonnegut novel.

I like the pairing. Kaufman is an inventive writer, and the adaptation of Vonnegut book should go better than his past book adaptations. Guillermo del Toro has tremendous vision as a filmmaker, and I trust him with Slaughterhouse-Five.

Of course, this is technically a remake, since Slaughterhouse-Five has already been on the big screen. The 1972 film was described by Vonnegut in his preface to Between Time and Timbuktu as, “a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen.”

As a refresher, here is the trailer:

Vonnegut went on to write in the same preface that, “I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book.”

Now it’s Kaufman and del Toro’s turn to bring Vonnegut’s classic anti-war novel, once again, to the big screen. No easy task, even if it’s been done before.

As Hollywood’s imagination seems to be running on fumes these days, film remakes and adaptations of books are becoming the rule rather than the exception.

In the instance of Slaughterhouse-Five, Hollywood is guilty of both.

And so it goes.

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Oftentimes, behind an Academy Award-winning film is a magnificent — and, occasionally, better than the film itself — novel that inspired it  Here is a lengthy list of some novels-turned-movies that received Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominations (or, in some cases, wins), including the 2013 nominees:

• American Hero (1993) by Larry Beinhart –> Wag the Dog (1997) — directed by Barry Levinson
• Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan –> Atonement (2007) — directed by Joe Wright
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004) by Aron Ralston –> 127 Hours (2010) — directed by Danny Boyle
• Capote (1988) by Gerald Clarke –> Capote (2005) — directed by Bennett Miller
• The Children of Men (1992) by P.D. James –> Children of Men (2006) — directed by Alfonso Cuarón
• The Descendants (2007) by Kaui Hart Hemmings –> The Descendants (2011) — directed by Alexander Payne
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (1997) by Jean-Dominique Bauby –> The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) — directed by Julian Schnabel
• The Hours (1998) by Michael Cunningham –> The Hours (2002) — directed by Stephen Daldry
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) by Brian Selznick –> Hugo (2011) — directed by Martin Scorcese
• Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel –> Life of Pi (2012) — directed by Ang Lee
• Little Children (2004) by Tom Perrotta –> Little Children (2006) — directed by Todd Field
• Moneyball (2003) by Michael Lewis –> Moneyball (2011) — directed by Bennett Miller
• The Motorcycle Diaries (1993) by Che Guevara –> The Motorcycle Diaries (2003) — directed by Walter Salle4
• Mystic River (2001) by Dennis Lehane –> Mystic River (2003) — directed by Clint Eastwood
• No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy –> No Country for Old Men (2007) — directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
• Notes on a Scandal (2003) by Zoë Heller –> Notes on a Scandal (2006) — directed by Richard Eyre
• The Orchid Thief (1998) by Susan Orlean –> Adaptation (2001) — directed by Spike Jonze
• Push (1996) by Sapphire –> Precious (2009) — directed by Lee Daniels
• Q & A (2005) by Vikas Swraup –> Slumdog Millionaire
  (2007) — directed by Danny Boyle
• The Reader (1995) by Bernhard Schlink –> The Reader (2008) — directed by Stephen Daldry
• Schindler’s Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally –> Schindler’s List (1992) — directed by Steven Spielberg
• The Sheep-Pig (1983) by Dick King-Smith –> Babe (1995) — directed by Chris Noonan
• Sideways (2004) by Rex Pickett –> Sideways (2004) — directed by Alexander Payne
• Silver Linings Playbook (2008) by Matthew Quick –> Silver Linings Playbook (2012) — directed by David O’Russell
• True Grit (1968) by Charles Portis — True Grit (2010) — directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
• Up in the Air (2001) by Walter Kirn –> Up in the Air (2009) — directed by Jason Reitman
• Winter’s Bone (2006) by Daniel Woodrell –> Winter’s Bone (2010) — directed by Debra Granik
• Wiseguys (1986) by Nicholas Pileggi –> Goodfellas (1990) — directed by Martin Scorcese

Image credits: 1, 2.

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