"I suspect you have to be familiar with the book to be able to appreciate the trailer."
I'll bite, although I always preferred the sequel to the original.
First line of book: "It was a dark and stormy night." First shot of trailer: Sunny California.
And it's almost, but not quite, the same way all the way through — inversions and contradictions at nearly every step: the character who is typically invisible in the book is the most famous face in the film's cast; if the "be a warrior" snippet is from the point in the plot I think it is, it's completely at odds with the original dialog, and doesn't appear to fit terribly well anywhere else either; and so on.¹
It could work; BLADE RUNNER managed to be a classic despite having very little to do with DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? — though the producers of that adaptation had the (accidental) grace to change the name. But I feel no confidence. _________ ¹ The witches are an overt riff on Shakespeare; they're so British their names are spelled sans dots in the book (Mrs. Murry, but Mrs Whatsit / Mrs Who / Mrs Which). In my head I search and replace as follows: Reese Witherspoon → Pearl Mackie. Mindy Kaling → Adjoa Andoh. Oprah Winfrey → a CGI effect. Oh, and let's have Idris Elba as Mr. Murry; Chris Pine's got a grey beard but I don't really buy him as an adult...
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Date: 21 Jul 2017 14:56 (UTC)I'll bite, although I always preferred the sequel to the original.
First line of book: "It was a dark and stormy night."
First shot of trailer: Sunny California.
And it's almost, but not quite, the same way all the way through — inversions and contradictions at nearly every step: the character who is typically invisible in the book is the most famous face in the film's cast; if the "be a warrior" snippet is from the point in the plot I think it is, it's completely at odds with the original dialog, and doesn't appear to fit terribly well anywhere else either; and so on.¹
It could work; BLADE RUNNER managed to be a classic despite having very little to do with DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? — though the producers of that adaptation had the (accidental) grace to change the name. But I feel no confidence.
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¹ The witches are an overt riff on Shakespeare; they're so British their names are spelled sans dots in the book (Mrs. Murry, but Mrs Whatsit / Mrs Who / Mrs Which). In my head I search and replace as follows: Reese Witherspoon → Pearl Mackie. Mindy Kaling → Adjoa Andoh. Oprah Winfrey → a CGI effect. Oh, and let's have Idris Elba as Mr. Murry; Chris Pine's got a grey beard but I don't really buy him as an adult...