Perhaps this is an interesting tidbit. At one point, Behrman said that a movie would be made out of his book. The actor Toby Maguire (Spiderman fame) was interested in taking on the project and role, and Behrman was excited by it. I found that to be strange since Maguire usually plays goody two-shoe type roles, in comparison. My guess is that the project never even got started, before failing. Or if it is still in the works, I'll be surprised. I actually haven't seen/heard of any movie starring Maguire, in a long time. [Here's a mention about the project in 2003: Plugging in Electroboy

The same kind of project was rumored about Kay Redfield Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind". I had heard something about Reese Witherspoon possibly playing Jamison, which would make sense. Witherspoon would surely do a great job! But again, that was a long time ago, and I'm assuming it just never happened. I forget where/how I heard about that. There was that movie by the name "Touched with Fire" that they got Jamison involved with. I've also read much of that book, too. [I found some of it boring.] The movie was not that based on Jamison's book by that name. I didn't like that movie, anyway. I recall that it starred Katie Holmes, whose performance was not memorable.

My guess is that "An Unquiet Mind" is hard to make into a screenplay. Frankly, as lovely, poetic, and informational as that memoir is, it might not be meaty enough for the big screen, and I do not believe her experience is sufficiently relatable [I could go on about that, but won't.]. They'd have to fictionalize some stuff. Her manias seemed tame on the outside (vs. in her brain). Plus, there's a limited amount of excitement you can get out of snake bite kits and penguin books, and it's hard to represent comets and shooting stars properly on screen. I'd love to meet her, because I have numerous questions about her own experiences/coping, but more about the illness itself, since she is among the best experts.

I thought "A Beautiful Mind" was an excellent movie, and very well acted by Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly. John Nash was, indeed, an amazing brilliant man with an interesting story, but they obviously tweaked his experience quite a bit for the big screen (i.e. visual vs. mostly only auditory hallucinations). I actually know a little bit about John Nash, since he was a local, and saw him, his wife, and one son a few times, in local places. You can all think I'm lying, but my husband actually picked him up, hitchhiking, and gave him a ride to the local train station once, that he took home. [Hubby is a European, he picks up hitchhikers.] We've read stories in the local paper of things he did that were not in the movie. I'll give him this, he did seemingly manage for a long time off medications, but in a limited way, and not without some embarrassing moments. But he was apparently happy with that. As a final note, if he and his wife had worn seat belts, they may still be here today.