In June 2013, BBC Radio 4 aired an hour-long adaptation by Graham White, directed by Mary Peate, featuring Andrew Scott as Maitland, Georgia Groome as Jane and Ben Crowe as Proctor. Bale, who played the lead in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ballard's Empire of the Sun, apparently is no longer attached to the project.
Actor Christian Bale was announced as the main character. Scott Kosar was set to adapt Ballard's story, and Brad Anderson was to direct. In 2011, Barcelona-based production company Filmax announced that it was producing a film adaptation of the novel. In an episode entitled The Island from the cartoon show CatDog both characters are stuck in a dilemma identical to the protagonist in Concrete Island. Injured, he tries and fails to attract the attention of passing traffic before being rescued by a community that live on the island.
Conflicts ensue with the other inhabitants and before long Maitland is struggling to determine whether he was truly meant to leave the island at all.īallard's papers at the British Library include his screenplay (1972) for Concrete Island (Add MS 8). In Concrete Island, a middle-aged man (once again Ballard-by-proxy, one assumes) crashes his silver Jaguar over the embankment of the newly built Westway interchange. He learns to survive by scavenging discarded food from littering motorists, and eventually comes to think of the island as his true home. Along the way he encounters other inhabitants of the median strip, which he comes to call "The Island," including a teenaged sex worker who hides out in an abandoned air-raid bunker and an acrobat who became mentally disabled in an accident and now salvages car parts for bizarre shamanic rituals. Though surrounded by motorists and within sight of large buildings, Maitland is unable to escape the median strip and must struggle for survival. Plot introduction Ī car accident leaves Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect in the midst of concealing his affair with a colleague, stranded in a large area of derelict land created by several intersecting motorways. Urn:oclc:877657851 Republisher_date 20121210012552 Republisher_operator Scandate 20121208091916 Scanner Island is a novel by British writer J.
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