Are you kidding? Dust Bowl "climate change" will be blamed on anthropogenic global warming abetted by rapacious free market agricultural policies under evil conservative Herbert Hoover. The loss of the farm and land will be blamed on CO2-loving, greedy Wall Streeters and big banks.
Meanwhile, FDR will be portrayed as a socialist people's hero who carries a recessive black gene that is somehow passed on to an unnamed future mixed white/black President. That President will carry on FDR's glorious trailblazing policies leading to a full Communist paradise.
Ma Joad will be transformed into a feminist "hero" and Tom Joad will come out of the closet, celebrating his homosexual relationship with his former cell-mate that culminates in a beautiful gay marriage ceremony on the beach at Malibu. The movie will end as Agenda 21-inspired environmentalists descend upon the Great Plain with horse-drawn wagon loads of native grass seeds to restore it to its pristine natural state, while nasty humans are herded into idealized urban tenements. The End.
I agree with your assessment. This will be a major exercise in modern propaganda. The best thing the story has for it is a cool sounding name. I couldn’t get through the book on my own - way to boring and communist drivel a few years ago in my late twenties.
I just don’t see the draw for this kind of story right now. Only hardcore leftists and Obamamugabe sycophants would pay to see this. I can only predict if this is what is on the slate for 2014 then there will be a barrage of similar tripe offered up across the board for both the cinema and television.
Har!