David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men ranks high on a list of Novels We’re Not Sure Will Work On Film simply from having read the synopsis: it’s a collection of stories featuring fictional interviews with various men on the subject of romance and the fairer sex.
Still, The Office (the US version)’s John Krasinski thinks he’s found a way, because he’s written a script based on the book – most likely adapting a few of the stories into plotlines – and plans to shoot the movie in November. Someone’s planning a world-beating How I Spent My Holiday story: “Oh, you went to the beach? I made a movie…”