Looking at IM rants today to/from mythologiced about a movie that is coming out this year, apparently not.

The thing is a lot of changes these movies make are just unnecessary and out of the blue. Look at Immortals: the movie is about Theseus opposing a king of Crete, so why Phaedra and not Ariadne? Why this King Hyperion instead of King Minos? And that’s just barely scratching the surface with this one.

Yeah, I know that Greek myth has many versions of the same story and that the timelines are forever out of sync with what is reasonable. But this isn’t picking one variant of the story – this isn’t even Euripides with his AU fanfics, complete with author’s note at the front explaining how it’s an AU.

Why can’t there be something that isn’t just… utter crap?

The latest film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel stars Ben Barnes as the titular character, Colin Firth as Lord Henry Wotton and has Rachel Hurd-Wood as Sibyl Vane – all three being actors I adore and eagerly wait for their next projects. That was how I discovered this movie was in production a long time ago – I was checking out Hurd-Wood’s next projects and this was on the list. And I squeed.

And for those unfamiliar with the tale, Wikipedia’s plot summary for the movie is as follows:

When a naïve young Dorian (Ben Barnes) arrives in Victorian London he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), who introduces Dorian to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. Henry’s friend, society artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin) paints a portrait of Dorian to capture the full power of his youthful beauty and when it’s unveiled Dorian makes a flippant pledge: he would give anything to stay as he is in the picture – even his soul.

So tell me, am I the only one excited for this movie? I’d hope not!