Frey’s ‘A Million Little Pieces’ Finally Gets the Motion picture Treatment

October 4, 2008

Okay, for this story I need you to try to remember something that happened, like, two years ago. Can you do that for me? Can you take your brain back that far, or do we need to call in McFly and the Doc? Anyway, remember all the hoopla surrounding James Frey’s very popular book A Million Tiny Pieces? How Oprah used the so-called “memoir” to re-launch her book club, and how it turned into this massive success — so much so that Warner Bros. desperately wanted to make a film out of it — and how it later came out that Frey made up a good portion of the book … and then Oprah smacked him around on Television … and then the film went bye bye. Remember?

Well, that’s what happened — and now, two years after the fact, comes a film called A Million Little Pieces, based on the book by James Frey and directed by Nigel Tomm. And no, it’s not being developed — it’s actually done … in the can … and available on DVD. Who’s in it, you ask? Well, unlike the previous in-development adaptation, you’re not going to see stars like Jake Gyllenhaal, Orlando Bloom, Josh Hartnett or Ryan Gosling (all of whom were interested in starring in the other flick). Nope, this one, according to its tagline, is — wait for it — “70 minutes and 41 seconds of pure turquoise screen. Nothing more, nothing less.” On a budget of $345. Ahem. Confused?

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