Aw, Gaiman, why you gotta play like that?
Neil Gaiman is scripting the James Cameron-assisted movie version of Journey to the West.

I feel really kinda queasy about this. There are no few Asian writers for whom this story came with their milk teeth, like Cinderella does to an English-speaker, and Gaiman has been...bad...about stuff relating to other cultures before. I really doubt that having been for a visit to China is enough to justify his treatment of the script.

(And let's not talk about James Cameron. Ick.)

Mercredigirl over at Dreamwidth has more to say.

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	cyan_aura 2011-03-28 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	also props for Gaiman for refusing to let "Anansi Boys" be made as a movie because every. single. offer. he has gotten has boiled down to someone telling him "oh and btw the kids can't be black because the movie won't sell if they are, so..." Yeah. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cyan_aura 2011-03-28 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	actually let me back that up a bit, because he's written a screenplay for it, he wants the movie made -- he just will not let it be Hunger Games/Last Airbender/Akira/Earthsea-d by Hollywood. Yeah I'm not happy with some of the stuff he's done but I can appreciate this one good thing about him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	franzen 2011-03-28 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Good for him. That's excellent. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	full_metal_ox 2011-03-30 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	Particularly given the unhappy precedent of Barry Hughart's attempt to bring Bridge of Birds to the screen--although fans were at least spared an adaptation carried out with the sort of attitudes that brought us The Lost Failbender (Paramount was the studio in question.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cyan_aura 2011-03-31 08:30 am UTC (link)
	oh hell to the yes, I'd forgotten about that one. (and how appropos your id, too! ^_^) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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