You spoiler! Giving away a key turning point of Clay's character.
In terms of a sequel.... interesting thought, but I wonder what you think it would be about? What material is left to cover? The ending is pretty open ended, but I think that is so that the reader can kind of congecture based on their opinions of the characters to find what'll happen.
Have you heard about the upcoming movie? Can we all bear witness to what a complete disaster this film will be? Here are my thoughts:
1) Barry Sonnenfeld shouldn't direct anything that has any serious to it whatsoever, and the entire second half of that book is primarily serious.
2) There is only one major screen actor who can play Kavaleir and that's probably Adrian Brody. Jude FUCKING LAW on the other hand is a terrible decision
3) That book is just too expansive to be captured on film. The only was to do it justice would be a 13 hour-long episode miniseries on HBO. Or a 26 episode series like "I, Claudius". I mea
Haven't heard about the movie, no. Yeah, Sonnenfeld isn't right. Who, though? You'd need Alexander Payne crossed with a young Francis Ford Coppolla.
Jude Law? ... well, I suppose if they tried hard they could have found someone less Jewish looking. Brody, though ... is he good looking enough? I know some women love him.
I have my own idea about how to adapt it, which will be the topic of a future entry.
As for a sequel ...
SPOILERS
The book ends just before superheroes were about to get a HUGE revival in the late 50s, shortly before Marvel would start doing exactly the kind of superhero comics K&C wanted to make, and about 20 years before Will Eisner would invent the graphic novel, which would open the door for K's Golem?. These things would transform K&C's lives. And I'm pretty sure DC Comics would try to buy the rights to The Escapist, as they did with Captain Marvel (whom they sued out of publication, like the Escapist), Plastic Man and many others
(cont'd) Much potential for drama in this.
Wait... I was wrong. Sonnenfeld is busy ruining another of my favorite books (Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE)
Kavalier and Clay will be directed by none other than sappy crappy pap purveyor Stephen Daldry, former artistic director for the National.
Note... I think Daldry has been an impressive stage director, but both Billy Elliott and The Hours were so overblown in their 6-hankieness... that kind of sentimentality would ruin a book liek K&C.
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As for your sequel, ultimately, K&C isn't really about comics, just like Moby Dick really isn't about whales and Glengarry isn't about real estate. While the ongoing moments in American History and Comic Bookdom would make for some good drama, I feel the characters themselves are already exhaused by the end (SPOILERS) of the novel. Sam Clay has skipped town to start life, presumably out of the closet, Kavalier has been reunited with his moth and their child. He's already been a morphine addict, a resident of antarctica, a hermit
PS: Apparently Jude Law has dropped out. Thank god.
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