Andrew Klavan has news of a agreement with Arilu Inc and Avida Entertainment Inc. to take the novel Animal Hour to the theaters. Klavan has a screenplay adaptation already. The deal gives these two companies one year to find the funds and talent for a movie.
I didn’t think you’d be pleased, but maybe the screenplay does alter it a bit. What don’t you like about this book? It’s something of a horror story, isn’t it?
Animal Hour? Out of all Klavan’s wonderful novels, they have to make his one piece of dreck, Animal Hour, into a movie?
I don’t often hope for major changes in an adaptation, but that’s my feeling on this one.
I didn’t think you’d be pleased, but maybe the screenplay does alter it a bit. What don’t you like about this book? It’s something of a horror story, isn’t it?
There wasn’t a single character I liked in the book. The “good guys” were a little less repulsive than the bad guys, but I quickly tired of them all.
They could easily change that. Even the actors could bring in a likable element without anything new in the script.