Dear Chris Columbus...

“Please, please stop sucking the life out of beloved children’s literature.”

I just saw ‘The Lightning Thief’ and am reading the script right now, so that I can critique the film without being too harsh on the screenwriter before reading his original writing. I have a long list of things now that are wrong with the film, and unfortunately they’re things that are needlessly wrong too – cinematic moments from the book that felt made for the big screen, yet oddly, inexplicably absent in the movie… or worse, explained away in a tidy line of dialogue. This is not, let’s make clear, how to do a book adaptation.

The bottom line? Wow, Chris Columbus really knows how to ruin an otherwise really, really good book series.

Feb 12, 2010 :: Tagged under: chris columbus, kids books, kids movies, percy jackson :: #

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