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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	queencallipygos 2011-03-29 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	I was wondering if I was the only one who was thinking "why are people already assuming this would be bad?" Out of curiousity -- what did people think of Gaiman's translation of Princess Mononoke? Not that I thought it was his best work, but it wasn't "nuke it from space" terrible either. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sukeban 2011-03-29 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	I was wondering if I was the only one who was thinking "why are people already assuming this would be bad?" Apart from the facepalm-inducing things he's said recently and have been linked upthread, because of the previous Neil Gaiman incursion in movie making with an adaptaton of a classic story. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spawn_of_kong 2011-03-30 12:35 am UTC (link)
	To be fair, most of the changes to Beowulf were Roger Avary's. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sukeban 2011-03-30 01:31 am UTC (link)
	I don't know. From the point where I knew that Grendel's mother was Angelina Jolie naked, covered in golden paint and with strange stiletto heel talons I just didn't want to know anything more about the movie. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	spawn_of_kong 2011-03-30 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	As I recall, the English dub of Princess Mononoke is pretty well-regarded. Certainly Miyazaki seemed satisfied. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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