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I read the novel when I was 14 or 15 and loved it. It was also the first book that made me cry. Having not re-read it, I suspect that it wouldn't have the same emotional impact on me now, but I still would love for this film to make the best of the book.
One of the key hooks of the book is that when you were hearing characters' thoughts, it would appear on the page in a different font which suited their personality. For example, animals' thoughts were more scrawled and disorderly. Looked great on the page and mixed it up, making character voices distinct. One of the big challenges on film will be communicating the idea of "Noise" without making you feel like you just have a headache from all the overlapping voices.
Also as you would expect from a book about thoughts, many of the best parts were all internal. Hard to put that on screen.
It's so weird to me that Charlie Kaufman is one of the writers, but I like his stuff. Doug Liman as director doesn't bode well IMO. I actually do like Tom Holland, but I don't imagine him fitting the role of Todd. At least as you said it sounds like the studio believed in it so good production value? But yeah, with COVID, who knows how that will come off.
Probably what will happen is they'll boil it down to gray looking hunger games rip-off film fare like maze runner or divergent. Which is a shame.
The age of the anti-hero is finally coming to an end. And I say that as someone who loves anti-heroes and darker stuff. We're just getting so much of it, we need the contrast, something bright and happy.
And no, I don't mean Trolls World Tour
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