“Fargo Rock City” being adapted into feature film
Chuck Klosterman is best known to music nerds that have read his articles in Spin, Esquire, and GQ. Klosterman has also written six books, including one novel (Downtown Owl, which I highly recommend), three collections of his work, and two loosely-worked memoirs. For a writer with a relatively large body of work, it’s surprising that Klosterman’s writings have not been adapted into films. That is, until now.
Klosterman’s first book, Fargo Rock City, is currently being adapted into a feature film, based on a script penned by Tom Ruprecht (a writer for “Late Show with David Letterman”) and Craig Finn (who you should know as none other than the frontman of Brooklyn rock band The Hold Steady). If you are familiar with Klosterman’s work at all, you will instantly recognize the fact that a humor writer and a musician working out the script for FARGO ROCK CITY is the perfect fit. I am certifiably amped by this news, if you allow me to use “amped” as a term implying, “I am so excited, I might need to go to a rock show tonight just so I can express my excitement by jumping up on an amp and then jumping off it into the crowd.” Yes, I am a Klosterman fan.
The film version of the book will “revolve around a group of high school seniors facing graduation as they try to find success with women and generally break out of their geeky cocoons” and is set in the 80s. Fargo Rock City, the book, gives a pretty decent history of heavy metal music (particularly hair bands and glam metal), through Klosterman’s eyes, as he grows up in rural North Dakota.
Finn and Ruprecht own the rights to the book, and the film will be produced by Finn and Ruprecht with Klosterman. The script is still in its first draft.
Source Pitchfork
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