{"id":3603,"date":"2012-05-25T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:32:19","slug":"what-ever-happened-to-movies-from-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3603","title":{"rendered":"What Ever Happened to Movies from Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in my car and I hear an advertisement for the new movie Battleship.\u00a0 I&#8217;m only half paying attention;\u00a0 action movie, battle scenes.. blah, blah, blah.\u00a0\u00a0 Although I do love me some Liam Neeson.\u00a0 Then a few things suddenly click in my head.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Brought to you from Hasbro.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mmmmmm&#8230;&#8230;.. Where do I know that name&#8230;&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;From the makers of G.I. Joe &amp; Transformers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh! My! GOD!\u00a0 Hasbro!!\u00a0 The toy maker.\u00a0 These are movies based on 30 year old TOYS!<\/p>\n<p>Movies from comic books, I get.\u00a0 Cuz its been done successfully for soooo many years.\u00a0 (And oh my, Avengers just rocks that genre to a whole new level!)\u00a0 But blockbuster movies from toys?\u00a0 And all the same toy manufacturer!?!\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine THAT board room decision&#8230; &#8220;Hey, we got too much money&#8230; lets try our hand at a movie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh&#8230; whatever happened to books as material for movies.\u00a0 Although we&#8217;ve seen that in Harry Potter, Twilight and One For The Money. \u00a0 But what about&#8230; gasp&#8230; an original screenplay?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I guess they are regulated to the independent film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?attachment_id=3605\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3605\" title=\"abe lincoln\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/abe-lincoln.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/abe-lincoln.jpg 184w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/abe-lincoln-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Luke, me, Sex God, his brother, Nancy &amp; her daughter are COMPLETELY excited about THIS movie!\u00a0\u00a0 Made from a book, I might add \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0 Wonder if the Regency theater has group rates! lmao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in my car and I hear an advertisement for the new movie Battleship.\u00a0 I&#8217;m only half paying attention;\u00a0 action movie, battle scenes.. blah, blah, blah.\u00a0\u00a0 Although I do love me some Liam Neeson.\u00a0 Then a few things suddenly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=3603\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}