This sounds like the worst idea Hollywood has had for…well, days. Not too unlike the disgusting Mormon-propaganda vandalism of Twain’s unfinished Huck Finn sequel. On the other hand, Twain himself was not always gentle with his creations.
Why is there still no good Huckleberry Finn movie? America’s greatest novel, and still every movie made of it has been crap. Not even close to being good. The Tom Sawyer movies are bad, too, but that’s slightly more excusable. I suspect the reason is that people persist in thinking of them as kids’ books, and therefore insist that the movies be for kids. In fact, Huck Finn, funny as it is, would be best made into a darker, grittier film. Clint Eastwood would be a good director. Or the Coen Brothers, to do it sort of True Grit-style. Huck Finn is not just good clean fun. It’s about a rougher, more romantic, harsher world; one with murder and danger as well as sublime beauties and supreme peace. It’s time someone in Hollywood took it really seriously.
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