Julius Holds

Peruvian author Alfredo Bryce Echenique has given up hope that his masterpiece novel A Word for Julius (Un Mundo Para Julius) will be adapted into a film anytime soon.

The production company that bought the rights to the book, he says, “has never paid for them.”

I can’t say I’m terribly sad about the news.

I really treasure Bryce Echenique’s novel, much more than any I’ve ever read (or not) and later seen brought to the big screen.

I just find A Word for Julius’ and its critical and humorous and mocking at Lima’s upper class so specific to that city, and to what I know about it, that I can’t imagine anyone doing it justice.

Several name international actors were even attached to the project, among them Pilar Bardem, Olivier Martinez, and Patricia Velasquez.

Time to find another project, folks.

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