Any fans of Bill Bryson's book "A Walk in the Woods" here? [View all]

[Ron Obvious]

Bill Bryson is one of my favourite writers. Some of his books, like his travelogues (The Lost Continent, Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here nor There), are laugh-out-loud hilarious, but he has also written interesting popular general science books (A Short History of Nearly Everything), light and funny memoirs (The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid), and books about the English language (The Mother Tongue, Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Made in America).

I first discovered him through "A Walk in the Woods", in which he and his old boyhood friend Katz, now middle-aged, attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail, a travelogue which is both funny and poignant in places.

While browsing on imdb the other day, I happened on this. Apparently Robert Redford bought the rights to the book some years ago, and is casting himself as Bryson and Nick Nolte as Katz. It's currently being filmed and will be released in 2015 if it all comes off. Off-hand, I'd say Redford is too old to play the middle-aged Bryson, but I can certainly see Nick Nolte as Katz.

I'm looking forward to seeing it if it comes off.