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  • [NEWS] "The Saint" movie in development ('reimagined' garbage)

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to pwallace@moviepig.com on Wed Jul 28 02:38:37 2021
    In article <Ph3MI.47135$sI4.24618@fx40.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 7/27/2021 8:06 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <sdpqnv$1ii0$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

    Oh dear, yet more "reimagined" and ethnicity-swapped garbage to appease
    the "Politically Correct" whiners and tickboxers. This is NOT "The
    Saint", so don't call it that! :-(



    It's kind of bizarre. Why take on a property at all if you don't want
    to actually use it? Not that the Moore was all that faithful either, but
    it was certainly closer than this sounds to be.

    They're not going after people who read the original, they're going
    after people who think the original is special because people read it.


    Well, I guess, but at this point that's like making a Bulldog Drummond movie.

    Just as an aside, the books from the 20s through the 40s are a lot of fun
    and cheap on kindle now. I definitely recommend them.
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  • From Otto J. Makela@21:1/5 to ted@loft.tnolan.com on Wed Jul 28 11:53:11 2021
    ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:

    It's kind of bizarre. Why take on a property at all if you don't want
    to actually use it? Not that the Moore was all that faithful either,
    but it was certainly closer than this sounds to be.

    The standard Hollywood trope: "we liked your original material so much,
    we only changed the plot and the characters."
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