Pen to Film

You have probably heard of the book by Adam Douglas. What you probably haven’t heard of is the movie starring Martin Freeman. Because it SUCKED. The plot was off by a lot, Martin did a well enough job, but I will start at the beginning. It started with a song. You read that right, a Song. The dolphins sing their final good-bye. If I thought it couldn’t get weirder it did, Zaphod’s second head and to a lesser extent his third arm were very disturbingly placed. I won’t even try to explain the sound it makes when it pops up. Another thing, way too many Vogons! And creatures only mentioned once, also who was that Vice-President lady? The green bee sneeze religion planet should never have been a destination and the arc of it ends rather abruptly too. I can kind of understand why they changed Zaphod’s reason for stealing the Heart of Gold, but he did not kidnap himself. Plus the Heart of Gold should not look like an eyeball, and Marvin well he was okay, but how could that chunky robot stump ...

This is the post I never thought I’d write. Only after my Dad and little Sister forced me to watch Jurassic Park with them did I then decide to try the book. And while the book is actually more descriptive then the movie I enjoyed it more as well. Some background, I hate horror and can’t handle suspense. The worst part of the movie for me was when the boy was on the fence while it was being turned on. Also I do not like having to wait and see who dies next. Or when a book’s plot is solely see who survives. Anyway, who lives and dies are totally different in the books and movies. For one thing Isla Nublar was not evacuated before the storm, so a total of five workers are missing by the end of the night. Main characters are fairly different as well, besides the two doctors (side note Grant is a widower and has no interest in his younger student Ellie, though the kids ask him if he is) there is Nedry, Gennero the firm rep, Regis the Head PR, Dr. Wu, Malcolm, Arnold the park engineer ...

Normally I only write about books to movies I have seen, but my mom roped me into watching with her the movie she found on a free streaming app, “What a Girl Wants”. Basically it was a movie about a early 2000’s girl who’s mom and dad had gotten married by some sort of native people, but her dad was from an old British family of prestige and they did not approve of his choice of a wild American wife. So she was chased back to America pregnant with the protagonist Daphne. The basis of the movie is Daphne now graduated goes to Britain to meet her enstranged father, who has no idea she existed. The only problem is that not only is he running for some sort of political office, but he is about to marry another women with fine blood and teenage children of her own. Daphne flails through high society life, and meets a boy who is a “half breed” similar to herself who says his parents are the happiest people he knows, even though his mom has been disowned by her rich family. The movie wasn’t th...

Since they are so small all picture books to movies are going to be in the major category. Producers simply have to add something to make an actual one and a half hour movie plot. But while some are simply atrocious others can keep with the spirt of the books, but add an interesting overarching storyline. An example is the two part series based off Ronald Dahl’s “Revolting Rhymes”. The book is simply a compilation of poems based on original fairy tales by Dahl, no real story arc. In the two part video the rhymes are used almost the exact way you see in the book. But they are all being narrated by a wolf, who weaves them more together then in the book and seems to have a agenda of his own. Some movies though seem to turn the books into a gimmicky kids movie that may or may not have the main themes of the book. One horrendous example is “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. The books, are a funny story of a land seemingly straight from dreams. Food simply falls from the sky and the storyl...

Update: The rights to make A Night Divided by Jenifer Nielsen a movie have been bought! The book is about a girl living in Berlin right before and during the construction of the wall, which leaves her family separated. Also while Paramount pictures has let their rights expire and a new company has the rights to The False Prince, some attachments to the Paramount project are not letting go causing things to slow considerably. But not stopped. No new info on any other film adaptions, keep you all posted!