Re: Movie Rights To Catcher
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:55:10 -0400
At 3:32 PM -0500 on 9/20/1999, you wrote:
> It seems suprising to me that Salinger had sold the rights to Catcher.
> It's also strange that nothing was done with the project. (if not with
> Dylan, with somebody) Does anyone know for sure if Salinger was able to
> regain the movie rights, or does MCA - or whichever company that MCA has
> become since then still own them?
I would imagine that show-biz then was not much different than show-biz
now. A lot of the game is bluff, and I suspect that if this story is true,
the fellow was bluffing. JDS made it clear a long time ago that he would
never permit anyone to make anything of Catcher other than what it is: a
novel, nothing more, certainly nothing beyond the caretaking hands of its
author.
--tim