Moby Dick: The Movie

Usually the cinetrix handles the movie stuff all up in here, but the following from Variety touches a nerve, day job wise:

Universal Pictures has made a splashy preemptive buy of "Moby Dick," a reimagining of the Herman Melville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov ("Wanted") will direct.

Studio paid high six figures to Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to pen the screenplay.

The writers revere Melville's original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab's obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain.

 This change will allow them to depict the whale's decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab's Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.

A charismatic leader, you say? I have your leader right here, who is so jacked about hunting whales with you, you would not even believe it:

   

TOTF to PP, which stands for Penny Pascal, and Peerless Photoshopping.

Comments

[Paula]

Ugh.