I keep saying this and nobody seems to agree, but “The Catcher in the Rye” is a very novelistic novel. Salinger explained why he would never sell such rights to the novel: In the typewritten, typo-ridden letter to a Mr. They might have known the project was never going to happen. Salinger wrote in 1957, and which is preserved online at , Had these prospective filmmakers considered a letter that Mr. That (mercifully) never happened nor did offers for filmĪdaptations from Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, Steven Spielberg and Harvey Weinstein, all of which Salinger considered a stage version of the novel in which he himself would play its teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Salinger‘s novel “The Catcher in the Rye” might someday be translated to another medium.
It’s been the dream of many a producer - and perhaps the nightmare of many a faithful reader - that J.
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