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Anyway, for you Chuck Klosterman fans out there, here's news of an upcoming film based on one of his books: http://tinyurl.com/yglw89y 29 days ago |
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My buddy Tommy Ruprecht is teaming up with Craig Finn for the movie of Klosterman's Fargo Rock City - http://tinyurl.com/yglw89y 10/26/2009 |
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RT http://is.gd/4zXRU (via @jefflittlejohn) Fargo Rock City being made into a movie. I am a little nervous, mostly excited. 10/25/2009 |
HOLD STEADY Front Man Adapting Chuck Klosterman's FARGO ROCK CITY
Twitch —
... Err, yes please? Word has just broken that Letterman writer Tom Ruprecht and Hold Steady front man Craig Finn are preparing a film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's memoir Fargo Rock City. And while I had no idea Finn had film aspirations, I've got to say he's a perfect option to be doing this. Not only is Finn a fantastic writer but as anyone who listens to The Hold Steady can tell you, his writing is dominated by coming of age in a rock and roll world themes as it is, so he's definitely used to working in this particular playground. Now ...
Hollywood: Giving The People What They Think They Sort Of Maybe Might Need Someday
Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip —
... The Hollywood Reporter reports that Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn and Late Show With David Letterman scribe Tom Ruprecht are at work on writing and producing a movie version of Chuck Klosterman’s coming-of-age-with-metal memoir Fargo Rock City. But those of you expecting a movie that plumbed the depths of one teenager’s rotting cassette collection (with a really heaping dash of ...
The Hold Steady's Craig Finn Co-Writing Fargo Rock City Movie
Pitchfork: Latest News —
... , rock writer Chuck Klosterman's memoir about being a teenage metal fan in North Dakota, for the screen, as The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business blog reports. ( ...
Film: Newswire:The Hold Steady's Craig Finn working on a screenplay based on Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City
A.V. Club —
Given the vicissitudes of movie production this may never come to anything, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, The Hold Steady's frontman Craig Finn is collaborating with The Late Show With David Letterman writer Tom Ruprecht on a screenplay based on Chuck Klosterman's coming-of-age memoir Fargo Rock City. Klosterman will serve as a producer on the film-to-be, which will be about North Dakota high school kids in the '80s, hanging out while getting ready to move on with their lives. Sort of like Dazed & Confused meets American ...
Craig Finn Adapting Chuck Klosterman For The Big Screen
Stereogum —
... Hold Steady's frontman teams with Letterman scribe Tom Ruprecht to turn Fargo Rock City into a movie. The story centers around geeky, teenage metal fans in '80s North Dakota, and Klosterman will co-produce with the writers. Details here . \m/ Posted at 1:01 PM Tags: ...
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AbsolutePunk.net - News —
... According to a Hollywood Reporter blog, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tom Ruprecht, a writer for Late Night With David Letterman, will be working on a big screen adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City. ...
Hold Steady Frontman Co-Writing Screenplay Adaptation for Chuck Klosterman's Fargo Rock City
Between Love and Like —
... 's tour schedule, I gotta wonder, does lead singer Craig Finn ever sleep? The Hollywood Reporter blog reported today that Finn and Tom Ruprecht, writer for David Letterman, are teaming up to take Chuck Klosterman's memoir ...
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The Hold Steady's Craig Finn to Co-Author Fargo Rock City Adaptation
Prefix —
... According to the Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog, Finn and Ruprecht acquired the rights to the book, and are set to co-produce the film along with Klosterman. According to the blog, "The 1980s-set screenplay will revolve around a group of high school seniors facing graduation as they try to find success with women and generally break out of their geeky cocoons." So wait, does this mean this coming of age story will not have an indie soundtrack? Is that even legal? Sounds like suicide guys. Suicide. ...
Hold Steady’s Finn Scripting Movie of Klosterman’s “Fargo Rock City”
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily —
... According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Risky Business blog, the memoir will turn into a coming-of-age film centering on a group of friends on the brink of graduation trying to pick up girls and break out of their nerdiness. ...
Hold Steady's Craig Finn Tapped To Write Screenplay To Chuck Klosterman's 'Fargo Rock City'
:: The Playlist :: —
... Whereas recent teenage-rock films like "Detroit Rock City," have failed both artistically and commercially, this is one we're obviously rooting for. It'll be more than just a niche hesher rock film too. “Heavy metal is kind of a common bond among a group of friends,” Ruprecht told RiskyBiz. “It’s the language they speak. But this will also be a universal story of dorky kids trying to be cool.” ...
Craig Finn and Chuck Klosterman Go Hollywood
Vulture —
... of Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City — a memoir about growing up a metal fan in North Dakota — with Late Show With David Letterman writer Tom Ruprecht; Klosterman will co-produce with the pair. Instead of just Chuck, the plot will revolve around a whole group of nerdy metal fans, basically trying to get laid. Sounds great! We don’t know how these three people even ended up in the same room at the same time, but this sounds good to us. [Risky Biz Blog/HR] ...
Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City to be Adapted by Letterman Writer and Singer of The Hold Steady
/Film —
... The novel doesn’t actually take place in Fargo, and it’s not about a band. Instead, it is a chronicle of Klosterman’s high school youth, where he banded together with friends over a love of rock and metal, with a special fondness for the hair metal bands of the time. THR reports on the deal and says that the film, which is currently being first-drafted by Finn and Ruprecht, will focus on a couple of specific points in the book, like the episode in which an ATM unexpectedly spewed loads of extra money at Klosterman. ...
Chuck Klosterman Is Going To The Movies
Cinema Blend News —
Chuck Klosterman Is Going To The Movies Chuck Klosterman has always been the writer darling of pop-culture-obsessives, tackling topics like The Real World and pop music in essay collections like Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs , which was ubiquitous in nearly every dorm room while I was in college. It's surprising, then, that it's taken this long for Klosterman's writing to make it to the screen. According to THR Klosterman's memoir Fargo Rock City will be adapted into a film by the strange pair of Tom Ruprecht, a former writer for Letterman, and Craig Finn, lead singer of ...
Hold Steady, Letterman Writer Collaborates on Fargo Rock City
FirstShowing.net —
... According to THR: "The pic will concentrate on particular portions of the book, including a chapter in which a faulty ATM dispenses excessive amounts of money to Klosterman, which both Finn and Ruprecht say they see as metaphors of the gilded age and easy credit of both the 1980’s and the past few years." ...
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... The Rakes have announced they’re calling it quits effective immediately, thus scuppering their North American tour which was due to stop at the Mod Club in Toronto on November 9. It might have sounded a little like this.
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The Hollywood Reporter says that The Hold ...
Hold Steady Frontman Turning Chuck Klosterman Book Into Film
Spinner —
... ' writer Tom Ruprecht to adapt the former Spin scribe's 2001 memoir, according to the Hollywood Reporter . "Seventeen or 18 is the perfect age for characters in a movie like this, because it's at that age that you have driver's licenses and a certain amount of independence, but you're still young enough that you can totally make terrible decisions," Finn tells the entertainment industry publication. "And you're still young enough that you can have a two-hour argument over whether ...
Rewriting the heartland: "Fargo Rock City."
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... actual tunes at hand. In my case, I could care less about the collected musical legacies of Tesla and Cinderella, but Klosterman's book presents his beloved '80s hair metal through irresistible compact sketches of his rural North Dakotan upbringing. "Fargo Rock City" seems unfilmable: it's all Klosterman explaining what the music meant to him, without stand-alone anecdotes. But that isn't going to stop "Letterman" writer Tom Ruprecht and The Hold Steady's frontman Craig Finn, who've purchased the rights to the book and are adapting it into a coming-of-age comedy. Apparently ...
Chuck Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City Getting Adapted for the Big Screen… By The Singer of The Hold Steady?
Film Junk —
... as a feature film. Fargo Rock City actually seems a fair bit more suitable for a film adaptation, and according to Risky Business , Ruprecht and Finn will be focusing more on the idea of a group of nerdy high school seniors in search of themselves, with heavy metal serving as the common bond between them. Finn had this to say:“Seventeen or eighteen is the perfect age for characters in a movie like this, because it’s at that age that you have drivers licenses and a certain amount of independence, but you’re still young enough that you can totally make terrible decisions… And ...
Craig Finn Teams With Letterman Writer and Chuck Klosterman to Bring Fargo Rock City to the Big Screen
Tiny Mix Tapes —
... rise above their humble home town and its local residents, who are less than enthusiastic about either KISS or Guns N’ Roses. The movie is set to revolve around a group of soon-to-be high school graduates who try to get laid, become more than just geeks, and overall live a life perfectly fit to be represented in next year’s surefire “Quirky Coming-Of Age Hit Comedy.” Finn, who has so far made his name writing Springsteen-influenced bar rock, explained his interest in the project to Risky Business blogspot : Seventeen or eighteen is the perfect age for characters in a movie ...
