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Adaptation Worries
Thursday, April 16, 2009 @ 3:17 PM

Because we love making movies! - Quentin Tarantino

So, I just found out that a lot of good books are going to be movies for this year or other. Jane Eyre, The Lovely Bones, My Sister's Keeper, The Time Traveler's Wife—and to be honest I'm quite skeptical.

With Jane Eyre and The Lovely Bones, not so much. Ellen Page will be Jane Eyre and she's just true greatness (and yes I have seen her in something that wasn't Juno) so I think I'll like it. With The Lovely Bones, I'm pretty settled with it because Peter Jackson's quite promising and Saoirse Ronan was amazing in Atonement and Stanley Tucci is great though unfortunately underrated. So for the two, the only thing that bugs me is the script. Hopefully they do justice to the novels, but still make it original and just as great.

Unfortunately with My Sister's Keeper and The Time Traveler's Wife, I'm really scared. Because these are two books that I hold close to my heart, and I mean, I cried reading those books. So once I heard that the filmmakers changed the ending for My Sister's Keeper, and I'm thinking Abigail Breslin's character isn't going to die anymore, the whole film will probably just turn out to be some sappy feel-good piece that just isn't the case with this book. So like. Grah.

As for Traveler's, I do love Eric Bana/Rachel McAdams as Henry/Clare. But after seeing Benjamin Button, I just feel like anything touched by Brad Pitt is gonna turn out wrong. And I can't believe Gus Van Sant wasn't chosen to direct. (Why didn't those negotiations take place? D:)

But crap. I hope they turn out fine.