Underworld Movie?

In an interesting article on so-called unfilmmable books, it is revealed that the movie rights to Don DeLillo’s mammoth masterpiece, Underworld, have long been owned:

The British company formed a pact with American producer Scott Rudin, who has made something of a specialty of making movies of books deemed unfilmable — his resume includes "The Hours" (2002), "No Country for Old Men" (2007) and "Angela’s Ashes" (1999). Rudin reportedly paid Don DeLillo $1 million for the rights to the writer’s mammoth, century-spanning masterpiece "Underworld" when it was published in 1998, though that remains unfilmed.

Also, seems that the Revolutionary Road adaptation has been good for business:

Last Sunday, a novel that
sold fewer than 10,000 copies when it was first published in 1961
debuted in the No. 20 slot of The New York Times paperback bestseller
list and it is likely to move higher during the next few weeks.

That’s one way to sell books.

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