Columbia Pictures Has a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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I don't remember much about my childhood. I remember playing with action figures and watching Fraggle Rock -- but aside from that, my memory is shot. Damn you drugs! However (and this is partly due to the fact that my mother kept every single book she read to me as a child), I do remember reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day over and over again. And I'll always remember the book's cover -- here's this kid hiding in his bed, barely peaking out from behind the covers, with this smirk on his face as if to say, "Why does my life totally suck?"
Well, the (good news? bad news?) is Columbia Pictures has just snatched up the film rights to the book for Neil Moritz to produce. Mike Bender (not Binder) will pen the adaptation. Bender and Moritz last worked together on Not Another Teen Movie (in which Bender wrote and produced), and the two are currently looking to take the Not Another Teen concept to TV with Not Another High School Show. (Oooh, please tear into those annoying rich brats on Laguna's Beach House in the Malibu Hills ... or whatever it's called.) As far as Alexander and his horrible day goes, the plot will revolve around a kid who wakes up with gum in his hair ... and it just gets better (or should I say, worse) from there.
What were some of your favorite books as a kid that you'd like to see up on the big screen?
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11-20-2006 @ 9:35PM
Chris said...
Andrew Henry's Meadow - It's about this kid who is really great at building things. His parents aren't really supportive of his talents, so he goes off to a field some distance off with some of his friends and sets up a sort of kid colony. Andrew Henry builds each of the kids a house of their own that fits their personality. It's not in print anymore, but it should be.
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11-20-2006 @ 9:55PM
Erik Davis said...
Chris, you're in luck -- that one's in development now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407526/
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11-20-2006 @ 10:40PM
Khyle said...
Horrible Hepzibah. Girl is too mean, goes to live with her Aunt (?) who is also mean. They are happily mean together.
I wish I could give a better synopsis, but my copy is in my kids room where they are sleeping, and I couldn't find anything on the web on it.
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11-21-2006 @ 10:43AM
Benjamin said...
Sendack's "Where the Wild Things Are."
I would hope the plot would fill out a lot. I'd like to see a read "Wild Rumpas" and love to see all the varieties of monsters treated with the best costume design, 3D animation, and/or traditional animation. What direction would it take?
Has it been done? I saw a treatment of Monster in my Closet. It would have to top that.
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11-21-2006 @ 10:59AM
Chanda said...
I'd love to see "Ultra-Violet Catastrophe" on film. It's a great story about a misfit girl who meets her misfit great-uncle. They go on a walk together and get into all sorts of scrapes. It's a fabulous book that would translate really well to the screen.
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