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The Secret History: “We can’t make a film with a passive hero.”

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch , established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. “ The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. ” In this brilliant debut novel , Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance. Warner Bros owns the rights to Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History , but no film has been produced yet. The slow pace of that project’s development is being blamed for the drawn-out process of getting The Goldfinch deal done . For clues as to how Warner Bros and Ratner might approach a prestige project like this,   The Seattle Times ‘ Moira Macdonald dug up an interview she did with Christopher Hampton , who had been hired to adapt The Secret History , before movi...

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