Poll of the Day > Roald Dahl's "The Witches" is getting a new movie

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OmegaM 08/12/19 8:44:18 AM #1:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_(2020_film) The main non-witch characters will be a black kid and his grandmother in 1960s Alabama. I'm not sure why segregation needs to be brought into the movie (as I assume it would have to be), but let's just hope ~~the kid stays a mouse this time~~! <cite>OmegaM posted [p:925959752] in Roald Dahl... [t:77933377]...</cite> <quote>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_(2020_film) The main non-witch characters will be a black kid and his grandmother in 1960s Alabama. I'm not sure why segregation needs to be brought into the movie (as I assume it would have to be), but let's just hope the kid stays a mouse this time!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
slacker03150 08/12/19 9:45:39 AM #2:	Produced by del Toro? Sign me up. --- I am awesome and so are you. Lenny gone but not forgotten. - 12/10/2015 <cite>slacker03150 posted [p:925961381] in Roald Dahl... [t:77933377]...</cite> <quote>Produced by del Toro? Sign me up.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 08/18/19 3:21:00 AM #3:	OmegaM posted... The main non-witch characters will be a black kid and his grandmother in 1960s Alabama. I'm not sure why segregation needs to be brought into the movie (as I assume it would have to be), Seriously, the fuck is this shit? Can't they just adapt a classic story without trying to virtue signal or unsubtle-y dogwhistle? --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:926212948] in Roald Dahl... [t:77933377]...</cite> <quote>OmegaM posted...</cite> <quote>The main non-witch characters will be a black kid and his grandmother in 1960s Alabama. I'm not sure why segregation needs to be brought into the movie (as I assume it would have to be),</quote> Seriously, the fuck is this shit? Can't they just adapt a classic story without trying to virtue signal or unsubtle-y dogwhistle?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 08/18/19 3:41:21 AM #4:	Because remaking old Roald Dahl movies with "quirky" directors worked so well the last time they tried it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:926213332] in Roald Dahl... [t:77933377]...</cite> <quote>Because remaking old Roald Dahl movies with "quirky" directors worked so well the last time they tried it.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 08/18/19 3:51:24 AM #5:	ParanoidObsessive posted... Because remaking old Roald Dahl movies with "quirky" directors worked so well the last time they tried it. Are we talking Charlie and Chocolate Factory and/or The BFG? Or something else? I partly ask because I bought a cheap copy of BFG a while ago and haven't got around to watching it --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:926213499] in Roald Dahl... [t:77933377]...</cite> <quote>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>Because remaking old Roald Dahl movies with "quirky" directors worked so well the last time they tried it.</quote> Are we talking Charlie and Chocolate Factory and/or The BFG? Or something else? I partly ask because I bought a cheap copy of BFG a while ago and haven't got around to watching it</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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