We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

EW weighs the possibility of a movie version of Catcher in the Rye now that difficult old J.D. Salinger is out of the way. Their speculation is fuelled by the novelist's comment in a 1957 letter:

“Firstly, it is possible that one day the rights will be sold. Since there’s an ever-looming possibility that I won’t die rich, I toy very seriously with the idea of leaving the unsold rights to my wife and daughter as a kind of insurance policy. It pleasures me no end, though, I might quickly add, to know that I won’t have to see the results of the transaction.”

Time thinks Holden Caulfield's story has already been filmed more than once. Sight and Sound notes that Salinger's stories about the Glass family were a direct inspiration for The Royal Tenenbaums.

There's also talk of the documents in Salinger's safe. Jay McInerney thinks there's nothing there, but that's what George Martin said about the Beatles...

Meanwhile the latest Philip K. Dick novel to be filmed is an interesting-looking low budget version of Radio Free Albemuth. It depresses me that it didn't happen in Dick's lifetime - he could have done with the money - but the stream of posthumous PKD adaptations was as much to do with the mounting influence of Bladerunner as anything else.