A film adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's modern classic The Confederacy of Dunces may finally be underway. Vulture reported that James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords, The Muppets) is "in negotiations to at long last bring the picaresque paean to New Orleans to the big screen via producer Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures. We hear the script will be fashioned by Cedar Rapids screenwriter Phil Johnston (who also co-wrote Alexander Payne's forthcoming Nebraska) and that, perhaps best of all, the seemingly perfectly matched Zach Galifianakis is attached to the project to star as Reilly."
Vulture cautioned against overexcitement, given many prior attempts to bring the book to the screen and the fact that "this year actually marks the 30th anniversary of Harold Ramis's 1982 plan to adapt the book.... As Ignatius once said best himself, 'The gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.' "
