Posted on 11/16/2017 8:14:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
Author Donna Tartt has left her legendary agent Amanda “Binky” Urban in a move that’s stunned the literary world after Urban landed Tartt a monster $3 million deal for the movie rights to her blockbuster novel “The Goldfinch.”
Sources tell Page Six that despite all the dough, Tartt was left with a sour taste in her mouth when she was not given the chance to write the screenplay for the film or named as a producer.
A publishing insider tells Page Six of Tartt, who was repped by Urban for three decades: “She was unhappy with the deal made for the movie. Tartt wanted a shot to write it, and that wasn’t given to her — nor was she able to get a producer credit, which seems ludicrous.” The film’s being written by Peter Straughan, who adapted “Wolf Hall” for PBS.
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Anyone ever heard of Martin Amis and Pat Kavanaugh?
Donna Tartt and Binky Urban? Sounds like the characters in a film from the 1980’s with Yuppie gals drinking Wine Coolers while they watch Dynasty on TV.
Martin Amis wrote one of my favorite books, in the same category of strange stuff as the output of John Barth. I refer to Time’s Arrow.
Do you mean Kingsley Amis?
Not familiar with Borges.
Personally, I’d never drop an agent nicknamed Binky. Because I’d love to get out of boring conversations by saying, “Sorry, but I’ve gotta go now. Gotta call Binky.”
Never heard of any of these people
Donna Tartt is a writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2014. Think Harper Lee channeled through Sydney Sheldon. She was friends with writers like Bret Easton Ellis (I think she dated him until he started eschewing the company of the distaff set). She first had success in the early 1990s, and published a book about once a decade.
meh
Both Binky and Tartt are of the 80s, both of them still on the scene.
But you can’t blame Tartt for her name lol...
Zima.
they were drinking Zima.
However, I do know there's a big difference between writing a novel and writing a screenplay. In a novel, you have to use words to describe something that a visual image can convey much more easily. Conversely, in a novel you can let the reader inside the character's head, which is very difficult in a screenplay. Should one of my novels ever get picked for a movie, I'd gladly turn the writing of the screenplay over to a professional. My guess is that the writer involved here is just being petty.
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