I’m so beyond sick of these clowns of any persuasion who think they should be able to demolish a popular book or story and demand that everyone pay homage to their “re-interpretation”..... if you want to make a movie about your own “vision” then do that with your own book/story. But don’t take a book/story that’s already well loved and expect ppl to fawn over your egotistical attempt to tell a new and different story.
They just trying to hijack a popular title/story and put it to very different uses. No wonder they get a lot of pushback.
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Sounds like you wouldn’t have liked The Hobbit either. Good for you!