Status: Movie planned about a recent hoax
Variety reports that the
JT Leroy hoax is already heading to the big screen. The Weinstein Company has committed to making a film about Laura Albert's elaborate deception. (Laura Albert was the woman who invented the JT Leroy character.) The time between the hoax being exposed and a movie deal about it being inked seems to have occurred incredibly fast. What is it... a month or two since the hoax was confirmed? The dust has barely settled.
I hope the movie is good. In its favor is that hoaxes seem to translate pretty well to the big screen.
Shattered Glass (about the journalistic deceptions of Stephen Glass) was a great movie. And
Princess Caraboo, starring Phoebe Cates, (about the
Princess Caraboo hoax, obviously) was decent, as a kid's movie. I've read that a movie called
The Hoax, starring Richard Gere, about
Clifford Irving's fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, is coming out soon. That also sounds good.
In other JT Leroy news, a movie version of one of his (her?) books,
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, is
about to debut. The movie was made under the assumption that the story it told was true. Now that story has been exposed as a lie, prompting a rapid switch in how the movie is marketed. My guess is that most people still have never heard of JT Leroy, so the hoax shouldn't have much impact on the movie.
Related Posts:
October 10, 2005:
Is JT Leroy A Hoax?
January 9, 2006:
JT Leroy: An Update
February 6, 2006:
Knoop Confesses JT Leroy Was a Hoax
Comments
It is here:
http://qwhip.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=52141#52141
He knew her. It is a very very long article, but if you go there you won't have to watch the salon.com commercial (which I did just so I could repost it to that site).
There was a time when people wanted to read actual books, not just watch movies and TV shows about fake books and fake journalism.