Voiceover is out of fashion, but there's ways to do it sparingly, like Peep Show, where you get what they really mean. "There's three really great acting roles, but unless you use voiceover it's very hard to get Douglas to feel emotions. "There's things that might work well," he added.
He offered further evidence that the project was already well underway, saying that a team ("we") are looking to the UK sitcom Peep Show for inspiration on the script. You can’t objectively make the rational decisions that are needed – at the moment I’m pretty sure that I won’t adapt it.” “I’ve adapted all three of my novels and it’s been difficult. “Having said all that, I think it will be – but not by me. These are all reasons you couldn’t make it as a film. “And it needs to be long – longer than two hours for a film. You’ve got to shoot at the Prado and the Louvre, getting permission for that would be misery for a producer. “And it would be a very big and expensive to film – it goes to Paris and Venice, Madrid and Barcelona – any producer reading that will think it’s a nightmare. “And because it covers 24 years – it would be very hard to age the characters. It is very, very, very hard to adapt anything written in the first person because we very rarely say what we feel. “It starts with Douglas mishearing something Connie says – you can’t do that on screen, on screen it’s objective, it’s third person. “It’s written in the first person – I wrote a book as a book, I don’t think you should write a screenplay in disguise. He shared a long list of doubts about the project, before declaring that “I think it will happen” despite his concerns. "There have been some conversations about and I think it will be decided soon," said Nicholls, responding to an audience question at Dubai's Festival of Literature on Friday March 6. However unlike that movie, which was met with mixed reviews, Nicholls said he is not keen to write the screenplay himself this time around. Nicholls' previous bestseller One Day was made into the hit 2011 hit, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, which banked $60 million at the box office. His comments come just weeks after saying a film remake was unlikely, instead telling The National that "if it does have a screen life it may well be on television." David Nicholls has confirmed that plans are being made for a big screen version of his new novel Us, admitting "I think it will be" adapted.
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