Disney has made a preemptive six-figure purchase of "All About Adam," a spec script by Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons. Scott Rudin will produce the project.I fully expect this movie to make a really bad pun about "the Big Apple" -- not least because the title indicates that these filmmakers like to play on words and common phrases. (The title alludes to All About Eve (1950), the classic Bette Davis flick which set the record for most Oscar nominations ever for a single movie, and which had nothing to do with the biblical characters.)
Spec follows the biblical Adam as he trails Eve to modern-day Gotham after they have a lover's quarrel. Adam discovers Satan was behind the breakup.
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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Adam and Eve break up, move to New York
As Legendary Pictures continues to develop its adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost -- which depicts the creation of Adam and Eve and their subsequent fall and expulsion from the Garden of Eden -- another studio is asking itself, "Hmmm, what if Adam and Eve were to walk among us today?" Reports Variety:
Yeah, well, the whole forbidden fruit thing is basically built on puns or word plays (The whole apple thing is most likely a play on the words evil and apple in latin, after all), so punning on New York's Big Apple status isn't that big a stretch.
ReplyDeleteOf course, that might imply that new york is the big evil, though the big apple reference is thought to be a horse-racing designation....
I'm confused. I've always thought Gotham was a stand-in for Chicago, not New York. But the movie has to be about New York, obviously, because they would lose a whole cache of temptation puns by setting it somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, Wikipedia indicates many New York-related uses of "Gotham", but no Chicago-related uses.
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