![]() ![]() A brilliant juxtaposition between modern day and the past, as well as a real Valentine to Times Past, Time and Again captured the imagination of a world fatigued by years of political unrest and an unpopular war and desperate for an escape, any escape, to a time when things felt…simpler, better. Time and Again follows the time-hopping adventures of one Simon Morley, an advertising executive who becomes the prime candidate for a government sponsored time travel expedition to the New York City of 1882. ![]() ![]() Legendary director Martin Scorsese has waxed nostalgic about reading it over a long weekend actor-director Robert Redford so loved it after being introduced to it by pal Paul Newman (who optioned the film rights originally for himself) that he tentatively scheduled it as a directing gig for himself in the 1990s master of the macabre Stephen King has referred to it as “THE great time-travel story.” Yet despite those ringing endorsements from three titans of American cinema and one of the most popular novelists of modern times, author Jack Finney’s illustrated masterpiece of a novel Time and Again has languished without a film adaptation since first popping onto the scene back in 1970. ![]()
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