Here Comes “Honeymoon”

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  01.25.05 | 10:19 PM ET

Franz Wisner’s book Honeymoon with My Brother, which chronicles the travels he and his brother, Kurt, undertook after his fiancee left him days before their scheduled wedding, comes out in February, but it’s already on the path to go where few travel books have gone: up on the big screen. According to the cover story of Sunday’s Los Angeles Times magazine, Wisner sold the screenplay rights to Sony’s Columbia Pictures for sum in the high six figures. Get ready, too, for the photo spread in Vanity Fair magazine and a huge publicity push. Franz and Kurt’s trip took them through 53 countries, in what the Times’s Robert Salladay says was “a sort of capitalist version of ‘The Motorcycle Diaries.’” He writes: “Unlike that of young Che Guevara’s eight-month trip through South America, the transportation was not a temperamental Norton motorcycle but a new Saab 9-5 sedan purchased in Sweden. It would take them across Europe and down through Syria. The Saab was an almost comic luxury for ‘backpackers.’ It would be ditched on a later trip in favor of sandals and crowded buses, including one with a vomiting little girl in the next seat.”



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