Producer of Superbad at work on 21 Jump Street movie...

Thanks a lot morchades. Like I wasn't already feeling annoyed by people being stupid...

News on The Dark is Rising movie:

"...dedicated to a Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Television industry. TO it, by serving, living humbly with integrity in what is often a world driven by selfish ambition, power and money – transforming lives from within, and THROUGH it, by creating relevant and evocative content which promotes Godly principles of Truth married with Love." is a quote attributed to the director, David L. Cunningham, who also directed The Path to 9/11 mini-series on ABC...

"...screenwriter John Hodge told me they dropped all the Arthurian stuff from the film."

Why even fucking BOTHER adapting the series? There are other YA fantasy books that don't have the attached Arthurian mythos. And likely even some with a more Xian underpinning to them (beyond C.S. Lewis)...

That was...uninspiring. I can cope with Bob being a sort of ghost hologram that lives in a skull, instead of a disembodied horny Spirit of Intellect. But it would be nice in a show about Harry Dresden, Wizard, if he did some of that whatchacallit. Magic. Or Magik. Or even Majik. This is not a good adaptation. Which is making it difficult to judge its merits as just a show. I'll have to wait for a couple more episodes to see if its worthwhile to continue to watch. But so far, not so much...

EDIT: Also, while Blackstone has some of that "weight of the world on my shoulders"-ness that Harry Dresden has, he had no real sense of humor. Harry's like Spider-Man. Even if a demon's about to eat his head and then blow up the city he still cracks a joke...