{"id":6080,"date":"2009-11-11T07:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:17:19","slug":"smith-sniffing-around-flowers-for-algernon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/11\/smith-sniffing-around-flowers-for-algernon\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Sniffing Around FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FlowersForAlgernon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6082\" title=\"FlowersForAlgernon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FlowersForAlgernon-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"FlowersForAlgernon\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FlowersForAlgernon-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FlowersForAlgernon.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a>Will Smith continues his quest to move from box office popularity to critical and award-winning respectability. This time he is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220516200001\/https:\/\/www.pajiba.com\/trade_news\/will-smith-signs-onto-flowers-for-algernon.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> considering starring in a new adaptation of Daniel Keyes&#8217; classic novel <em>Flowers For Algernon<\/em>. The book, a staple of junior high and high school required reading lists for years, tells the story of a mentally retarded man who is used as a test subject for an experimentally procedure to increase his intelligence. Although initially a success, the treatment begins to wear off and the man must face the horror of losing his his new found life. A previously film version directed by Ralph Nelson netted star Cliff Robertson an Academy Award in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Although Smith has been nominated for Academy Awards twice before for <strong>Ali<\/strong> and <strong>The Pursuit Of Happyness<\/strong> but has not won a coveted statuette.\u00a0 He also made a blantant Oscar grab with <strong>Seven Pounds<\/strong>, easily the most morally reprehensible film of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this project could never come to fruition. Smith currently has over two dozen projects in development according to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000226\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb<\/a> entry and only a small number of them will actually ever reach the big screen. I wouldn&#8217;t waste too much sleep that this will be one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Will Smith continues his quest to move from box office popularity to critical and award-winning respectability. This time he is reportedly considering starring in a new adaptation of Daniel Keyes&#8217; classic novel Flowers For Algernon. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/11\/smith-sniffing-around-flowers-for-algernon\/\" title=\"Smith Sniffing Around FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[60,2187,22,563],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-book-to-film","9":"tag-flowers-for-algernon","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-will-smith"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}