The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

In today’s essay, Chabon says that he himself was the target of Rudin’s “fury, vitriol and vituperation” in 2010 when the two had a dispute over the terms of a deal. Chabon had by then severed ties with Rudin. In 2019, Deadline reported that Showtime had landed the project, which would be written and executive produced by Chabon and wife Ayelet Waldman. Spanning decades and geography and encompassing a head-spinning mix of popular culture, the Holocaust, gay rights, real-life events and fictional alternative history, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is generally regarded as Chabon’s masterpiece, with Hollywood repeatedly attempting to wrestle the work into a film or TV adaptation. “Looking back through the emails he sent, arranging my travel and phone meetings with his volatile and unpredictable boss, remembering his voice on the phone, I can see and hear him walking on eggshells, taking the absurdly deferential, almost Victorian tone Scott insisted his assistants take with ‘the talent.'”Ĭhabon’s novel chronicles the lives of two cousins, a Czech artist and and his Brooklyn-born cousin, as they become major figures in the WWII-era Golden Age of comic book publishing. “I regret most of all that Kevin Graham-Caso is not here for me to tell him personally how sorry I am,” Chabon writes.

In one particularly emotional passage, Chabon writes of Rudin’s assistant Kevin Graham-Caso, the man who is alleged to have been pushed by Rudin from a moving car and who last year died by suicide. A minute later, Scott called me into his office, and we started talking, as if nothing untoward had happened, about whatever script we were working on at the time.”ĭeadline has reached out to Rudin’s office for a response to Chabon’s statement. The pencil struck the back of the assistant’s head, eraser end first, and fell to the carpet. “And I saw him throw a pencil, once, at an assistant as the young man fled Scott’s office and Scott’s shouting. Scott Rudin & Broadway Ad Agency End Two-Year Lawsuit Over $6.3M In Unpaid Bills - Update

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon