Already obsessed with Hulu's adaptation of High Fidelity? The new series, starring Zoë Kravitz, is based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. If you want to know what goes down in this story of a London record store owner who revisits his past heartbreaks, we're here to give you all the details. But you should probably stop reading now if you haven't devoured the book yet, because there are a whole bunch of spoilers coming at you.
Because the protagonist of the novel, Rob Fleming, is obsessed with list-making, here, then, are the top five plot points of High Fidelity.
1. Who Is Rob Fleming?
Rob, a former DJ, is a commitment-phobe who's just been dumped by his girlfriend, Laura. For the record - yeah, we said it - the protagonist is actually a woman in the Hulu series, Robin, played by Kravitz. The...
Because the protagonist of the novel, Rob Fleming, is obsessed with list-making, here, then, are the top five plot points of High Fidelity.
1. Who Is Rob Fleming?
Rob, a former DJ, is a commitment-phobe who's just been dumped by his girlfriend, Laura. For the record - yeah, we said it - the protagonist is actually a woman in the Hulu series, Robin, played by Kravitz. The...
- 2/21/2020
- by Hollee Actman Becker
- Popsugar.com
You have to play the long game, if you want to survive as a writer. The publication of High Fidelity, in 1995, was just the first step in an ambitious 25-year plan: a successful American edition, even though I set the book in London (check); a much-loved Hollywood movie (check); and then a gender-flipped TV series starring a woman who was six years old when the book was published, but whose talent and star power were obvious even then (check). It is very satisfying when these things pay off.
All rubbish,...
All rubbish,...
- 2/12/2020
- by Nick Hornby
- Rollingstone.com
Prodigy Public Relations has promoted its current VP of Film Rob Fleming and VP of Corporate Communications Jason Kasperski to partners and EVPs at the entertainment publicity and marketing firm. Their new titles will be Partner and Executive VP of Film for Fleming, and Partner and Executive VP of Corporate Communications for Kasperski.
Both are known to the media biz as straight shooters and are well regarded around town.
“Jason and Rob have not only helped me grow Prodigy into a company that delivers extraordinary client service and media strategies, but have contributed to making it a place where employees can come to work every day and experience a friendly and fun atmosphere,” Prodigy founder, president and CEO Erik Bright said. “As we approach our company’s 10-year anniversary, we can all still say we love what we do and are extremely grateful to be working with some of the...
Both are known to the media biz as straight shooters and are well regarded around town.
“Jason and Rob have not only helped me grow Prodigy into a company that delivers extraordinary client service and media strategies, but have contributed to making it a place where employees can come to work every day and experience a friendly and fun atmosphere,” Prodigy founder, president and CEO Erik Bright said. “As we approach our company’s 10-year anniversary, we can all still say we love what we do and are extremely grateful to be working with some of the...
- 6/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A short half-hour film made to sell a book. No fests, no theatrical, but you can go on their website and watch it. Worth it.
So …..
What we have here is not a film but a question — what’s it like to be us?
Confused, twenty-something, afraid …. but boldly striding into life.
We follow the life of a millennial — twenty-something young woman…. emphasize the young … who works at an ad agency. We’re in the world of twenty-somethings — impossibly young but adults now, and facing all that grim reality.
It’s one-half hour but full. The creator is also the star. Impossibly young but out in the world.
It’s Samantha Jayne
It’s Samantha Jayne.
For example we see our young female Millennial ask a series of basic questions about “adulting” to her mom over the phone, cutting back and forth during this to many different situations. The sequence...
So …..
What we have here is not a film but a question — what’s it like to be us?
Confused, twenty-something, afraid …. but boldly striding into life.
We follow the life of a millennial — twenty-something young woman…. emphasize the young … who works at an ad agency. We’re in the world of twenty-somethings — impossibly young but adults now, and facing all that grim reality.
It’s one-half hour but full. The creator is also the star. Impossibly young but out in the world.
It’s Samantha Jayne
It’s Samantha Jayne.
For example we see our young female Millennial ask a series of basic questions about “adulting” to her mom over the phone, cutting back and forth during this to many different situations. The sequence...
- 3/22/2019
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Zoë Kravitz will star as the lead role in the upcoming TV adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel, High Fidelity. The series will run for 10 episodes on Disney’s upcoming streaming service, according to Variety.
The show will depart from the 1995 book, which featured a London record storeowner in his mid-30s named Rob Fleming, and recast the lead as a woman. It was previously adapted into a movie set in Chicago that starred John Cusack in 2000 and as a Broadway musical, which relocated the store to Brooklyn, in 2006. Kravitz’s mother,...
The show will depart from the 1995 book, which featured a London record storeowner in his mid-30s named Rob Fleming, and recast the lead as a woman. It was previously adapted into a movie set in Chicago that starred John Cusack in 2000 and as a Broadway musical, which relocated the store to Brooklyn, in 2006. Kravitz’s mother,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Hollywood PR and marketing firm Prodigy Public Relations has upped Rob Fleming from senior publicist to VP Film Publicity. He had spearheaded campaigns for the likes of IFC Films’ Wakefield, the Bill Paxton-starrer Mean Dreams from Vertical Entertainment and Electric Entertainment’s The Book Of Love with Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel. Fleming joined the company in 2013 after stints at NBCUniversal and The CW. He will continue to report to Prodigy president and CEO Erik…...
- 9/8/2017
- Deadline TV
Hollywood PR and marketing firm Prodigy Public Relations has upped Rob Fleming from senior publicist to VP Film Publicity. He had spearheaded campaigns for the likes of IFC Films’ Wakefield, the Bill Paxton-starrer Mean Dreams from Vertical Entertainment and Electric Entertainment’s The Book Of Love with Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel. Fleming joined the company in 2013 after stints at NBCUniversal and The CW. He will continue to report to Prodigy president and CEO Erik…...
- 9/8/2017
- Deadline
We’ve all had it happen. You have some friends over, programmed Pandora to your favorite group. And then that one song—that song—the one that is so cheesy it almost makes you ashamed for the group, comes on. And you spend the rest of the night apologizing to your friends, trying to convince them this band really is good, that one song was just an anomaly.
This has occurred more often than I can count. I admit, I spend an inordinate amount of time debating with friends whether the Stones or Bowie version of “Let’s Spend the Night Together Was Better” (it’s the Bowie). And I have some unique choices of brilliant artists (Neil Diamond). And more than one girlfriend has compared me unfavorably to Rob Fleming, the main character from Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity (John Cusack’s character if you’ve only seen the movie). Oh,...
This has occurred more often than I can count. I admit, I spend an inordinate amount of time debating with friends whether the Stones or Bowie version of “Let’s Spend the Night Together Was Better” (it’s the Bowie). And I have some unique choices of brilliant artists (Neil Diamond). And more than one girlfriend has compared me unfavorably to Rob Fleming, the main character from Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity (John Cusack’s character if you’ve only seen the movie). Oh,...
- 9/5/2012
- by Peter Henne
- Obsessed with Film
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