"First ‘Catch-22′ Images Reveal George ..." Topic

…Clooney's Hulu Series

"Hulu has released the first set of images for its adaptation of Joseph Heller‘s excellent satirical novel, Catch-22. The 6-episode limited series will be directed by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Ellen Kuras (each doing 2 episodes), all of whom are also producing. Luke Davies and David Michôd are co-writers and executive producers.

It's been a long time since I read Catch-22, which is typically required reading in the high school cannon of literary works, but I absolutely loved it. The sharp, fragmented style creates a dreamy and sometimes nightmarish discombobulation. But mostly it's just extremely dryly funny, and also coined the well-known phrase of a "catch-22," which describes a paradoxical situation that cannot be escaped because of contradictory rules. It also may have inspired the series M*A*S*H, which shares a similar style (of note, there was a Catch-22 pilot starring Richard Dreyfuss that was never picked up, as well as a movie made in 1970)…."
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Amicalement
Armand

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youtube pilot with Dreyfuss

Base commander has some nice soldiers…

I absolutely hated the book when I had to read it in school and definitely will take a pass on the series then. To each his own.

Books hated in school have strange tendency to because quite good after they have sat on the shelf and matured for twenty years.

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Amicalement
Armand

I can see why the Dreyfuss pilot didnt make it. Worth watching for the B-25s and less than half an hour. I have read that his was an attempt by ABC to have their own M*A*S*H hit. In any event nice find DW.

It also may have inspired the series M*A*S*H

The TV show M*A*S*H was inspired by the book "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors" link

I noticed in the earlier failed pilot version,one of the flyboys was noted voiceover artist Frank Welker.