Insomniac Mania is reporting that Todd Phillips is going to direct the movie version of The Dogs of Babel. I haven't read the book, but here's a plot summary of the movie:
The film, adapted by Jamie Linden from Carolyn Parkhurst's bestselling 2003 novel, concerns a grieving linguistics professor who tries to communicate with his Rhodesian Ridgeback because the dog was the only witness to the death of the man's wife, who fell from a tree in their backyard.
According to the reviews on Amazon, part of the book involves secret underground linguists doing horrible experiments on dogs. I wish!
Todd Phillips brought us Starsky and Hutch, Old School, and Road Trip. Hope I got the right Todd Phillips.
3 comments:
Holy crap! A linguist with a Rhodesian Ridgeback? Isn't that you? OK, so you don't actually own a Rhodesian Ridgeback, and your wife is (thankfully) not dead. But still.
i read that book and it's awful.
Too bad. But I expected as much. The movie sounds worse.
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