This should get Mark Twain spinning in his grave.
Before I start, I need to say that Dave lectured me on the importance of expressing my opinion as my own rather than doing it for big groups, as I did when I wrote in my post about Green Lantern. He’s not my dad, but technically he is my boss so I guess I have to listen to him. It is my personal opinion that the first GL movie sucked, and if they keep all the same writers and actors the next one will pretty much do the same.
The image I got from Dave’s comic book t-shirts. He sure has a lot of Green Lantern ones.
However, I just read that they are making a Tom Sawyer movie. This seems cool, but then I read that the story will be of Tom and Huck as adults, and feature supernatural elements. You know, one of the greatest and most racist stories of American literature done as a Scooby Doo cartoon. How does this make sense? Do the hacks in Hollywood really think they are better writers than Mark Twain, and therefore have license to write stories about his characters he never wanted to do? Maybe the supernatural element is them trying to channel Mark Twain’s ghost and writing what he wanted to write but never got around to.
Actually, a really funny story would be about some idiotic writers trying to pervert a classic novel and the ghost of the writer coming back to kill them as they sleep, like Freddy Kruger. In that case, however, I think I would go with Edger Allen Poe.
Jason
