Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIt’d seem that “The Luminaries,” Eleanor Catton’s 2013 novel, might provide grist for an adaptation of unusual and extreme ambition.
In order to do the work’s scope justice, it’d have to be: At over 800 pages — the longest novel to have won the prestigious Booker Prize — the book traces a vast cast of characters, 12 of whom are assigned virtues associated with the signs of the Zodiac.
These characters’ actions, against the backdrop of an 1866 New Zealand gold rush, might be seen as influenced by still more characters, who are meant to represent heavenly bodies.All of which suggests a certain daring on the part of the filmmakers willing to take such a project on.
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