I find myself doubting it more and more. The novel is really too big and complex to be coherently adapted. It's also very un-PC, which makes it even less likely that it a producer would want to put up the money for it.
I wonder how many fewer troons there'd be if it was part of the deal that you had to have a stinkditch installed and you could only have sex with men. I bet Olly's supposed internal womanhood would never have manifested itself if that were the case. It's truly bizarre the lengths to which these straight men will go just to pretend they aren't straight men.
Some men do have a transwoman fetish. He's too hulking to pass though, so it would be a subset of submissive men who like the idea of being fucked by a giant tranny. There are definitely people out there like that.
Never seen the musical interlude - someone please give me a link? But yes, the whole bisexual thing was clearly total horseshit. He's gone way up in rank on the oppression scale by trooning out, so being bisexual now has no benefits for him. In fact, by just continuing to be a straight man in drag, he then can pretend he's also a lesbian which makes him feel even more special and oppressed. Win-win.
Like a lot of women who claim to be bisexual, probably the furthest Olly ever went was drunken kissing at a party. I really don't believe he ever had sex with a man (not counting Contra). He's just a typical bloke, isn't he? A basic, average, run-of-the-mill straight guy. In food terms he's white bread with cheap mayonnaise.
It was his "Queer" video from 2019. I'll spare you the whole thing, but there's three songs he covers. My Type by Saint Motel ("you're just my type; you've got a pulse and you are breathing"), The Devil You Know from the musical Sideshow (with some lyric tweaks to be about YouTube) and "Steady As She Goes" by The Raconteurs.
For Steady As She Goes he performs it as a duet with himself as his parents, including a drag outfit and a strained falsetto.
The Devil You Know actually provoked a stronger cringe reaction with me because he does a bunch of musical theatre singing and it's clearly supposed to be a showcase of his range.
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Going back through that thread I'm just going to recheck my notes
- The author (unknown gender) is dead
- The book is "so old" it's from a time where legal documents relating to screen rights may be lost as it's from an era where "nobody gave a shit"
- The man who organised the transfer of representation to the literary agent is also dead
- Some "friends in LA" helped him find the literary agent, suggesting an American connection
- The head guy who runs the agency and personally manages these rights "has his name on the building"
- Ollie wants to take him to dinner, suggesting he does also have a connection to the UK
Assuming Ollie isn't embellishing in his usual way this might not be a UK literary agent and also presumably is an agency with a man's name in the title. So potentially Donald Maass, Marly Rusoff or Bill Clegg... or Andrew Wylie, also known as "The Jackal".
Wylie founded the literary agency named after him in New York in 1980. He opened a second office in London in 1996.[10] It now represents more than 1000 clients and literary estates. For his business tactics, Wylie has been nicknamed "The Jackal".
He is the literary agent of Salman Rushdie.
Throughout his career as a literary agent, Wylie has attracted attention for poaching clients from other agents. In 1995 Martin Amis left his agent of 22 years, Pat Kavanagh, for Wylie, who was reported to have secured an advance of £500,000 for Amis's novel The Information.
He's apparently known for handling posthumous estates of big deal authors. Sure enough, in 2008, Dimitri Nabokov arranged a change in representation to Andrew Wylie directly - in order to oversee the publication of Nabokov's unfinished last novel. Dimitri Nabokov died in 2012, and the Nabokov Literary Foundation remains on the books of the Wylie Agency.
In August, Andrew Wylie granted rights of adaptation for "Invitation to a Beheading" to Uri Singer. On an upswing from "The Prince", that news could have registered on Ollie's radar (assuming he reads Variety).
The Wylie Agency maintains offices in New York and London. So the madlad might actually be trying to adapt Ada.
The only bit that doesn't necessarily mesh is the broadcast rights bit - Invitation To A Beheading predates Ada; I'm not sure what would constitute an era where nobody gave a shit about such things. The author would probably have to have died after 1952 for copyright to still apply (70 years after author's death is when it lapses) which does narrow it down a bit. Still,
there's plenty of big estates to pick from - I have a hunch Andrew Wylie is the right track.
