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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Clowes’ Wilson Headed for Hollywood

November 19, 2010 by Scott Timberg

JUST announced: Alexander Payne of Sideways fame will direct an adaptation of Daniel Clowes Wilson, his latest graphic novel. Deadline.com has the story of the deal with Fox Searchlight here.

A few months ago I met the Bay Area-based Clowes, whose Ghost World and Art School Confidential have been adapted, to discuss Wilson. The character is an enraged loner who sometimes shows flashes of heart and soul. Still, he may be the most unlikable Clowes protagonist yet.

“I didn’t intend to go in and try to push the envelope on how unpleasant I could make him,” a slim, bald and darkly handsome Clowes told me over coffee at a Los Feliz cafe. “It came from within: I thought I’d make something both personally meaningful and something an audience would find interesting.”
“I think we have a similar worldview,” the author allowed. “And his sense of humor — finding humor in the razor’s edge between tragedy and comedy — there’s a lot of resonance between me and him.”
Here is my full piece. Very eager to see how this project goes.

Filed Under: daniel clowes, film, graphic novel, oakland, west coast

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I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

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