"The Catcher in the Rye" as movie? Some fans go on hoping, while others are horrified."
To many fans, the mere idea of J.D. Salinger's classic "The Catcher in the Rye" being turned into a movie seems wrong. After all, didn't protagonist Holden Caulfield very clearly state: "If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me"?
But since Salinger's death in January of this year, speculation has been brewing. While Salinger definitively shut the door on the idea in his lifetime (he once wrote to a movie producer that “Holden Caulfield himself, in my undoubtedly super-biased opinion, is essentially unactable”), he did also add in the same letter that he might think of "leaving the unsold rights to my wife and daughter as a kind of insurance policy."
I am sure it will get made, but no. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't have even been written, but whatever, it was. If they do make it, Wes Anderson should do it. He's been channeling Salinger his entire career, particularly the Glass family.
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