![]() ![]() ![]() “I read it and I was like, I love it so much, but I don’t know how to do it,” Tan told the outlet, adding that she then read it again and realized she had a way into making it into a film, adding, “I was like, Oh my God, I have to do it. ![]() While “Shirkers” was about piecing together a years-old story that literally hinged on missing material, seeing Tan revisiting the key spots of her youth while also trying to find the long-stolen footage of her first film, Batuman’s autobiographical novel offers its own challenges. ![]() Tan will soon tackle her own version of Elif Batuman’s Pulitzer Prize finalist “ The Idiot,” jumping to the narrative realm with her own screenplay, which she will direct for the big screen. In a new interview with The Cut, Tan shares her plans to tell another story about a smart woman waylaid by a devious man, as originally told in ways that seem, well, just a bit unfilmable. After charming audiences with last year’s documentary gem and Indie Spirit nominee “Shirkers” - which chronicled the filmmaker’s wild early years making a film when she was just a plucky teen bouncing around Singapore, only for the entire thing to be stolen by her would-be mentor - Tan is lining up her next big feature, and it sounds like one heck of a clever fit. ![]()
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