It's been a good month for Chuck Klosterman. Just as the writer's latest collection of essays, Eating the Dinosaur, is hitting bookstores and Hollywood has come a-knockin' to adapt Fargo Rock City, his 2001 memoir about growing up as a metal fan in 1980s North Dakota.
The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business blog reports that the script will be co-written by Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn and longtime Late Night with David Letterman writer Tom Ruprecht (anything to get out of that office right now!). Klosterman will co-produce the film with the screenwriters.
So, will this be any good? Maybe. Ruprecht's sharply satirical writing combined with the literary bent that Finn has shown in his Hold Steady lyrics should spice up the film's admittedly been-there-done-that plot description: "a group of high school seniors [face] graduation as they try to find success with women and generally break out of their geeky cocoons."
One detail, though, gave me pause. Discussing the portions of Klosterman's memoir that the film will focus on, the co-writers mention a section in which an ATM machine accidentally dispenses an exorbitant sum of money to Klosterman. Apparently, "both Finn and Ruprecht say they see [these scenes] as metaphors of the gilded age and easy credit of both the 1980s and the past few years." My tenuous allegory senses are already tingling!
