Just deal with it, boys. I thought April Fools had come early when I heard that Diablo Cody is adapting the Sweet Valley High series for the big screen. (It is indeed for real. There goes one of my jokes for next year.) Of course, the reaction has been mixed. And we can take solace in the fact that Cody is keeping the series in its proper time period – the 80’s. In any case, it’s only Sweet Valley High, and they’ve never exactly been classic anything.
- Mark Hamill is not in Zombieland. Because really, once one has spoofed their most famous role in the form of a character called the Cocknocker, everything else in that vein is just kind of downhill.
- Stephanie Meyer’s other property. Her science fiction novel, The Host, will be adapted by Gattaca’s Andrew Niccol.
- Remakes rearing their ugly heads. Highlander and He-Man not as dead as we thought. DAMN IT. But at least we can be grateful for one thing:
- My eyes! My eyes! io9 unearthed some a test shot of Nicolas Cage from the late 90’s Superman movie that never got made, and it’s every bit as awful as you might expect.
I’ll admit to being a Fan of the Sweet Valley Twins series…not so much Sweet Valley High. Back in Twins the girls still loved each other. By High, there was a lot of back stabbing, and Amy had gone over to the darkside.
A movie of this could be pretty cool. I liked the balance of personalities in SVH, mix with snark and 80’s flavor…and it could be very fun. Along the “Ten Things I hate About You” line…only without the flashing.
..I could pass comment about Dunc using the word ‘Cocknocker’ and ‘vein’ in the same sentence, but I wont…
And Cage as Supes? Really doesn’t bear thinking about, although to be fair he is a big comics fan, but then I love democracy but I don’t go round rotting the Republic from within and repleacing it with a New Order, do I?