That sound you just heard was Herman Melville rolling over in his grave. Wanted director Timur Bekmanbetov will direct a (you guessed it) reimagining of Moby Dick for Universal Pictures, and there are some absolutely fabulous lines from this Variety report that I must quote at length. Screenwriters Adam Cooper and Bill Collage “revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how Ahab’s obsession with killing the great white whale overwhelms his good judgment as captain. This change will allow them to depict the whale’s decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab’s Pequod, and Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.” Wow, sounds great so far! “This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story,” says Cooper. Please just tell me they’re keeping Queequeg.
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