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This is scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard that I can only feel confused.
Did The Christmas Carol really need a prequel? Are they trying to start a multiverse franchise a la Marvel, but with royalty free books?
What's next, Huckleberry Finn 2?
Huck Finn 2 - Huck Harder
Huck Finn 3 - Go Huck Yourself
Huck 4: The Huckening
And then just "H5"
Huck 4 - in Space
It's got a baked-in prequel with the ghost of Christmas past. The whole scrooge story is fully told!
so what you're saying is, this has potential for a whole TRILOGY of films?
We can make a Dickens Cinematic Universe. Besides Scrooge, each of the three ghosts surely has a story. And what about Marley, the portentous visitor? Surely he's got a story about how he ended up in chains wandering the Earth. Could do a whole afterlife thing where he redeems himself and is freed at the end. And a prequel of his story! What about Scrooge's ex-fiancee? The quest of the urchin to purchase that turkey!
Please do not give them any more ideas.
In addition to the others mentioned there's
James, Percival Everett's version from the perspective of Jim
Huck Out West, by Robert Coover, a revisionist take where Tom Sawyer sells Jim to buy a pair of boots, Becky Thatcher ends up in a brothel, and Huck has some solo adventures before meeting up with Tom again, who's now a shady lawyer running for Congress.
And many more:
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Rewriting Twain, John Seelye delivered a raucous R-rated adaptation in The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1970), notably discarding Twain’s comical ending for a more tragic conclusion depicting a manacled Jim drowning in a last-ditch swim for freedom. Going in a new direction, Greg Matthews took up Twain’s original cue for a westward turn in The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1983). Matthews’s version received mixed reviews — among them this jewel: “The result is sometimes cute, but more typically unreadable […] no Twain wit or wisdom […] like Early American–style furniture made of plastic laminate.” Two more indirect adaptations/extensions have come in the form of Nancy Rawles’s My Jim (2005), a moving story narrated by Jim’s enslaved wife Sadie, and Jon Clinch’s Finn: A Novel (2007), which takes on the unenviable task of telling the story of Huck’s father, Pap. Whatever the outcomes of critical debates or successes of the respective novels, imagining Huck’s adventures after his reluctant coming of age and his decision to risk hell in stealing Jim out of slavery has been both fruitful and fraught-filled.
The original ending of Huck Finn is one of the best endings of all time, with an emancipatory and rebellious message of anti-racist solidarity. Huck is being pressured to give up Jim or burn in hell for all eternity and go to jail for aiding in the escape of a fugitive slave. Huck's response is "Alright I'll go to hell". It's perfection, and these fucking grimdarkslop author thought they would 'improve' it by making it yet another tragic black-death and taking away one of the most inspiring endings in fiction to make it generic sad gritty bullshit
Right? It's such a perfect, definitive line. I liked James and Huck Out West for the most part but some of these sound not only unnecessary but absolutely misguided.
let's re-write Twain but without any of the wit, charm or abolitionist messaging!
Huck 2: Huckleberry Boogaloo
Oh they beat you to this long ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn