![]() ![]() ![]() Directed by John Crowley, who was responsible for the adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s dauntingly inward novel Brooklyn, it stars Oakes Fegley and Ansel Elgort as Tartt’s protagonist and narrator, Theo Decker, at different stages of his life. Now, however, Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (2013), has been made into a film. (The rights have duly reverted to the novelist herself.) Later, Gwyneth Paltrow and her brother acquired the rights, but also failed to make the movie. Yet it never happened Alan Pakula, who was to have directed it, died in 1998. With its cast of beautiful young obsessives drawn to murderous violence it begged to be filmed. Warner Brothers bought the rights to her first, bestselling, novel, The Secret History, in 1992, the year of its publication. I f it is surprising that none of Donna Tartt’s three novels has made it to the screen before now, it’s perhaps more surprising that The Goldfinch will be the first. ![]()
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