He will adapt them for Lookout Point, a London-based production company with whom Davies has already collaborated on “War & Peace” and forthcoming adaptations of “Les Miserables” and Vikram Seth’s “A Suitable Boy.” Inevitably, the Updike adaptations will wind up as a coproduction between a British and an American network - PBS, HBO, A&E, Netflix, it’s hard to predict. Andrew Davies, the British screenwriter who has built a successful and respected career adapting classics, from “Bleak House” and “Middlemarch” to “Pride and Prejudice” and “War & Peace,” is taking on Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom novels. So this may be the beginning of a new understanding of Updike - triggered by the Brits. Perhaps Hollywood is aware of the truism that second-rate books make first-rate movies and first-rate books make second-rate movies. Perhaps his fiction doesn’t contain enough action, or it’s too interior, or too subtle.

Updikes most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit At Rest and Rabbit Remembered). It’s remarkable that such a prolific and popular American novelist and short-story writer - he published “some 21 novels” and 18 story collections, according to Wikipedia - has inspired so few films and series. 337 pages, Kindle Edition First published JanuBook details & editions About the author John Updike 629 books2,115 followers John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. “The Witches of Eastwick” was brought to TV and the movies, and “Rabbit, Run” was turned into a movie in 1970. John Updike: Novels 1959-1965 (LOA 311): The Poorhouse Fair / Rabbit, Run / The Centaur / Of the Farm (Library of America John Updike Edition) by John Updike and Christopher Carduff 15 Hardcover 2749 45.00 Get it Wed, Oct 19 - Mon, Oct 24 3.97 shipping Only 1 left in stock - order soon.

There haven’t been many adaptations of John Updike’s fiction over the years.

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