{"id":1286,"date":"2012-05-31T00:38:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-05-31T00:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:38:12","slug":"john-kennedy-tooles-a-confederacy-of-dunces-finally-to-be-filmed-with-zach-galifianakis-playing-the-inimitable-ignatius-reilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/31\/john-kennedy-tooles-a-confederacy-of-dunces-finally-to-be-filmed-with-zach-galifianakis-playing-the-inimitable-ignatius-reilly\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kennedy Toole&#039;s &quot;A Confederacy of Dunces&quot; Finally to be Filmed, With Zach Galifianakis playing the Inimitable Ignatius Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the funniest American novels EVER is about to (finally) make it into a film version (in which Hollywood will no doubt muck it up, but so it goes): John Kennedy Toole&#8217;s (infamous) <em>A Confederacy of Dunces<\/em> (1980), published 11 years after he committed suicide (supposedly because he was unappreciated as a writer\/could not get published). We sympathize, don&#8217;t we? Does it matter that the book, published that many years after his untimely end, then went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? Yes, kind of.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard from writer friends that <em>Dunces<\/em> is a book you either love or hate, and I&#8217;m definitely in the love category. (I actually have a hardback of it, from LSU press, though not a 1st edition, a 10th printing.) It&#8217;s laugh-out-loud funny. Ignatius Reilly is fat, arrogant, bawdy, homebound, and hilarious.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m no fan of Zach Galifianakis, but I think he&#8217;s got the right physique for the part. John Candy could have done it best, but like John Kennedy Toole, he died rather prematurely. Mainly Galifianakis\u00a0seems to inhabit a lot of dopey &#8220;guy comedies,&#8221; and many of them (including <em>Hangover 5<\/em> or whatever) seem rather disposable. But this might be a classic. If he can pull it off. I&#8217;ll be waiting for it. For more info on the upcoming film, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cheats\/2012\/05\/22\/galifianakis-to-play-lead-in-dunces.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Confederacy_of_dunces_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1287\" title=\"Confederacy_of_dunces_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Confederacy_of_dunces_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the funniest American novels EVER is about to (finally) make it into a film version (in which Hollywood will no doubt muck it up, but so it goes): John Kennedy Toole&#8217;s (infamous) A Confederacy of Dunces (1980), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/31\/john-kennedy-tooles-a-confederacy-of-dunces-finally-to-be-filmed-with-zach-galifianakis-playing-the-inimitable-ignatius-reilly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,8,16,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-booksfilm","category-film","category-writing","category-zach-galifianakis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}