So I think it will be a really good movie,” Tharp said. “I was able to see a couple of key scenes being filmed which made me feel that the movie was going to be very well-acted and that the tone will reflect my novel. His 2008 young adult novel, “The Spectacular Now,” is being made into a movie of the same name, which wrapped up production this summer in Georgia. However, that is the case with Rose State College humanities professor Tim Tharp. Even less likely is when a movie is made based on that book. It is not often that a would-be writer breaks through and becomes a National Book Award nominee. Hamp musters the sense and confidence to muddle his way through, and for that readers in the stands can raise a cheer.Rose State College humanities professor Tim Tharp is the author of “The Spectacular Now,” a young adult novel being made into a movie. There's a reason this plot is a hardy perennial, though-high-school sport fortunes do rise and fall, lovable good girls and tempting bad girls do confuse the teen heart, and loyalty and stupidity do occasionally walk hand in hand. Tharp's somewhat old-fashioned take on high-school rivalries and rumbles could play out among Hinton's Outsiders, and Hamp's "Boy howdy" twang might set eyes rolling north of the Mason-Dixon line. And, worst of all, he drags Hamp into his own violent confrontations with opponents he blames for ruining his career. He attributes his own gridiron missteps and inabilities to Hamp's lack of aggression. He impedes Hamp's every attempt to get closer to Sara, the one girl with whom he's comfortable. He insists that Hamp get a girlfriend worthy of a football player and sets him up on a disastrous date with a luscious man-eater. In fact, nearly all Blaine's scarcely contained rage gets directed at Hamp. Just as Hamp's star is on the rise, though, Blaine is struggling with a knee injury that threatens his college prospects, and he's not taking the matter graciously. Not that life is perfect-there's no dad at home, Mom runs with a new man every month or so, and the pressure is on for the Kennisaw Knights to win their fifth straight undefeated season and match the record set decades ago in their football-crazed Oklahoma town. Narrator Hampton is one of the good guys-gifted and determined on defense, shy and gentlemanly around girls, loyal in his friendship with fellow Kennisaw Knight, Blaine, who got him started in football back in grade school.
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