A Confederacy of Dunces

BPI acquired the film rights to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces in October of 1982 and subsequently sold the rights to Paramount Pictures in 1993. Johnny Langdon, Susan O'Connell, and Carolyn Pfeiffer will be involved in the film's production.

Synopsis

Set in New Orleans in the 1960s, A Confederacy Of Dunces introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius J. Reilly. Slob extraordinaire, deadbeat ideologue and gluttonous moocher, Ignatius is in violent revolt against the entire modern age. A mountainous college graduate, Ignatius spends most of his time waxing melodramatically philosophic, hiding out in the squalor of his bedroom, filling Big Chief writing tablets with his unique brand of Luddite/medievalist/anti-Enlightenment thought, as well as writing incendiary letters to his political and sex-crazed girlfriend Myrna Minkoff in New York City.

His ire explodes when his mother backs her Plymouth into the support structure for someone else's balcony. Mrs. Reilly's meager welfare check is hardly enough for the damages they need to pay for the little accident. So nagged on by his mother, Ignatius grudgingly begins a series of hilarious interviews — finally landing a job that sucks him ever deeper into the seamy underbelly of New Orleans and creates the platform for his encounters with Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levy Pants; the wan Patrolman Mancuso who is determined to arrest Ignatius at all costs; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for parrots; Lana Lee, the Nazi proprietriess of the Night of Joy, and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses

Current Status: In Development by Paramount Pictures, with participation from BPI

Executive Producer

Johnny Langdon

Co-Producer

Susan O'Connell