This is one series that's been in development longer than Burroughs' Mars books.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Tom Swift Update
Barry Sonnenfeld Adapting ‘Tom Swift’ Novels - Screen Rant: "Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black) is attempting to bring one of Hollywood’s longest-stalled projects to the big screen: an adaptation of the juvenile sci-fi book series Tom Swift. The Tom Swift novels have been ongoing for nearly a century(!) - the first volume was published in 1910 and the latest one as recently as 2007."
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I loved the Tom Swift. Jr, series in the fifties and read some of the newer series that I think it was William Rotsler did back in the the eighties/nineties.
A movie might be nice. But knowing Hollywood's propensity for screwing things up, we still may never see it.
I just read something about this at another site and saw that dreaded word re-imagining. OMG!
Yes, that's pretty scary.
The article makes it look like they want to use the original Swift books, not the Tom Swift Jr. ones. That would be a terrible mistake, of course, just the kind of thing film producers are so prone to do.
"They need to work faster," Tom said quickly.
I think they should adapt the title that Webley Webster reviewed for Bob & Ray: Tom Swift and His Atomic Fertilizer Spreader.
Art Scott
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