Here's a Competitor interview with McDougall from June 12, 2013: http://running.competitor.com/2013/...unning-5-questions-with-chris-mcdougall_72073
Interesting. I just can't conceive of how they're going to make it into a movie-story. Take out all the anthropology stuff? Also doesn't sound like it's for sure even going to get made? Like, they haven't even started filming?
Anyways, his critique of running culture is spot on: all about achieving, versus satisfaction in perfecting form.
There will need to be explosions, somebody will get bitten by a rattlesnake, and the two young runners will obviously make mad, passionate love after discovering that they are lost in the canyons.
I read the book after I had been running barefoot for a while, but I'm always a bit surprised when people talk about it like it's a 'barefoot' book. To me it was about running, and the barefoot/minimalist stuff was incidental. I suspect that the movie will be similar.
I read the book after I had been running barefoot for a while, but I'm always a bit surprised when people talk about it like it's a 'barefoot' book. To me it was about running, and the barefoot/minimalist stuff was incidental. I suspect that the movie will be similar.
A bit of "creative tweaking" of plot that is pretty normal when movies are made from books.