Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/11/05 02:02

Fuzzy Wuzzy wrote:

>>it would have been far more original for Burton to do a movie of the book
>>sequel 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator' but i bet the reason he
>>didn't do that is because he thought he could make more money doing
>>another remake of an already near perfect movie
>
> If you honestly think that, then you haven't read the book. If you
> have read the book, then you are insane.

Glad somebody said it:

"Wow, wouldn't it be NEAT if Tim did both books?"...Well, as a matter of
fact, no it wouldn't: The second book's an unholy mess.
(Funny, yes, but still a mess. :) )

I'm sure *Tim* would be happy indulging himself with amorphous space
leeches and low-rent road-company-Strangelove "The American president
likes to drop bombs!", but the rest of us will recognize that the second
book has all the cinematic filmability of Captain Underpants, and will
leave fourth-grade children's literature to its own idiosyncratically
appreciated element unless it turns up in more universal form.

Derek Janssen (and that's coming from the EXPERT, folks--I know whereof
I speak)
djanss@charter.net

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