oh what's the fucking point?

[acroyear]

Baruchel negotiating for 'Apprentice' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety:

Jay Baruchel is negotiating to play the title role in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" for Walt Disney Pictures. He joins Nicolas Cage, who plays the sorcerer in the Jon Turteltaub-directed live-action pic.

Jerry Bruckheimer is producing.

Baruchel, who co-starred in "Tropic Thunder," next plays the lead in the DreamWorks romantic comedy "She's Out of My League."

He's also attached to co-star with Seth Rogen in "Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse," a project they've set at Mandate Pictures. Baruchel is also lead voice in the DreamWorks animated film "How to Train Your Dragon."

Scripted by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal and rewritten by Matt Lopez, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" takes place in contemporary New York, where a wizard searches for an apprentice.

talk about bereft of ideas...*sigh*

every attempt in the last 20 years to take a great 8-20 minute idea and turn it into a 90 minute film has sucked.  seriously.  all of them.  that includes every Dr. Seuss "movie" ever made.  that includes every full-length feature built on the looney tunes characters.  that includes 65% of all Steven King films (the ones built on his short stories).

it simply doesn't work.

Walt and Leopold and crew created delicate crystalline perfection in 1940, an absolutely flawless gem (then embedded in a ring of gold, silver, and some lesser jewels).  Please Please PLEASE don't tarnish it's memory with this.

*sigh*

Comments

[tchwrtr.livejournal.com]

There is a reason short stories are short stories. And you have hit upon it.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

a product isn't done when there's nothing more to add. a product is done when there's nothing more you can take away.

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

And now I sit here and try to figure out just where Bruckheimer is going to work in his signature "big bang" explosion...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

or Einstein: as simple as it could possibly be, but no simpler.

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

Why, why, why do they do these things? Do they think that people no longer enjoy the originals? All that this does to those of us who love the originals is irritate the crap out of us ...

/preaching to the choir

[3fingeredsalute.livejournal.com]

It's the revisionism I can't abide. If Disney remade "Old Yeller" the damn dog would have not only lived, but made two sequels a Christmas Special!