Geekling Rage
Picked up from Warren Ellis' blog-feed:
1) They're making a V for Vendetta film. That, in and of itself, could be cool beans. Given that other recent adaptations of Alan Moore's work have, well, blown, I'm sadly not hopeful.
*sigh*
2) Stephen Fry is cast in it. Alright, could be interesting. He spills some of the beans here, with the quote of:
"I'm playing the character of Gordon Deitrich, who's a chat show host who questions the authority of the people who run Britain in this post-viral facist state, as it were..."
*grunt?*
3) Ummm, what part of totalitarian post-Thatcherian fascist dystopia don't you lackwits get? Even the very concept of having anyone, much less a public media figure, tweaking the nose of the body politic in such an environment would be grounds for execution, preferably very publically. Ever read/hear of/see 1984 by a certain Mr. Orwell?
*grump!*
4) Combined with the looming suckitude of both the apparently middling-poor Hitchhiker's and the blatantly bad Fantastic Four coming out soon, I am hereby officially forever despairing of future mainstream Hollywood adaptations of good comic books rising above the level of cesspool reject.
(NB: I'm excluding the looming Batman Begins and Superman Returns because those seem much more revisitations of extant Hollywood pieces).
*sigh*
1) They're making a V for Vendetta film. That, in and of itself, could be cool beans. Given that other recent adaptations of Alan Moore's work have, well, blown, I'm sadly not hopeful.
*sigh*
2) Stephen Fry is cast in it. Alright, could be interesting. He spills some of the beans here, with the quote of:
"I'm playing the character of Gordon Deitrich, who's a chat show host who questions the authority of the people who run Britain in this post-viral facist state, as it were..."
*grunt?*
3) Ummm, what part of totalitarian post-Thatcherian fascist dystopia don't you lackwits get? Even the very concept of having anyone, much less a public media figure, tweaking the nose of the body politic in such an environment would be grounds for execution, preferably very publically. Ever read/hear of/see 1984 by a certain Mr. Orwell?
*grump!*
4) Combined with the looming suckitude of both the apparently middling-poor Hitchhiker's and the blatantly bad Fantastic Four coming out soon, I am hereby officially forever despairing of future mainstream Hollywood adaptations of good comic books rising above the level of cesspool reject.
(NB: I'm excluding the looming Batman Begins and Superman Returns because those seem much more revisitations of extant Hollywood pieces).
*sigh*