3/14/10

2x film option, 3x foreign rights sale

shoplifting from american apparel has been optioned for film by sangha films and sold to france, to au diable vauvert, to the acquiring editor of david foster wallace in france, 'along with' cognitive-behavioral therapy

eeeee eee eeee has been optioned for film by kacper jarecki and sold to serbia, the translator is zoran trklja

other countries interested in purchasing 'foreign rights' are encouraged to contact my publisher here; 'coverage' of items in this blog post can be viewed at moby lives, flavorpill, gothamist, the village voice, the new yorker, paste

28 Comments:

Blogger david fishkind said...

damnnn/sweet/first

10:02 PM  
Blogger Jordan Castro said...

good job

10:02 PM  
Blogger Judo-Kun said...

movies

10:09 PM  
Blogger steve roggenbuck said...

can't wait to see how they portray the dolphins, et c

10:15 PM  
Blogger Ben Rosamond said...

i would watch that

11:04 PM  
Blogger Timothy said...

blu ray

11:47 PM  
Blogger tomhanks said...

whoa, so sweet, i'm happy for you

11:47 PM  
Blogger Monkeyplates said...

congratulations good sir!

12:08 AM  
Blogger brittany wallace said...

congratulations, lots of good news

12:51 AM  
Blogger Jonny Ross said...

[affirmative comment forthcoming]

12:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

good job.

do you still have a job? if so, will you be able to quit soon?

1:40 AM  
Blogger Calvin Markus said...

omg

4:41 AM  
Blogger miles ross said...

can only hope they become as funny as Face-Off

9:03 AM  
Blogger Ben Brooks said...

sweet. probably michael cera will be in both of them.

12:05 PM  
Blogger richard owain roberts said...

definitely a good thing.

12:17 PM  
Anonymous well somebody said...

David Foster Wallace is the best author in the world.

You might be the fifth best author in the world. You are behind Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Charles Dickens, and David Foster Wallace. Also I feel like it is illegal that you are not better/more famous than Stephenie Meyer or something.

3:23 PM  
Blogger victoria said...

'well somebody', can you say more about why you like dickens...i have to write about him for english and don't get why he's so great

6:00 PM  
Anonymous well somebody said...

"victoria", have you read a story by Charles Dickens?

6:06 PM  
Blogger jakehobbs said...

this is possibly the best news i've heard all year.

1:04 AM  
Blogger andrew worthington said...

nice

11:26 AM  
Blogger alex branson said...

think eeeee eee eeee would be really good, sfaa would be 'kinda' good.

add a car chase + matt bourne + comic sidekick + vampire + metaphors for teenage abstinence

1:25 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

@david sweet
@jordan sweet
@judo-kun sweet
@steve sweet
@ben sweet
@timothy sweet
@tomhanks sweet
@monkeyplates sweet
@brittany sweet
@jonny nice
@nonymous sweet/no
@calvin sweet
@miles sweet
@ben sweet
@richard sweet
@well 'damn'
@victoria sweet
@jakehobbs sweet
@andrew sweet
@alex sweet

6:02 PM  
Blogger Elise said...

nice! this makes me happy.

3:13 AM  
Anonymous JPS said...

Hey Tao,
I was wondering if you think you act in 'bad faith'. Do you feel a sense of 'duty' to act in the absence of God?

7:05 PM  
Blogger Justin said...

@tao sweet

8:39 PM  
Blogger Giles Ruffer said...

Kacper Jarecki. I like his use of emoticons.

9:58 AM  
Anonymous kashif said...

i am excited

5:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tao, did you make 'mad cash' off these options? Or is it possible that years later, large film companies will approach you only for you to say "I have already sold everything to Siberia"

Is that the kind of situation we're looking at happening here?

3:07 PM  

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