If you didn’t think a worse adaptation than 2010’s The Last Airbender would haunt the big screen, think again. A brand new trailer for Disney’s upcoming Kenneth Branagh directed adaptation of Artemis Fowl dropped recently and to put it politely, it has left fans of the beloved novels enraged and fuming, metaphorical Neutrino 2000 blasters loaded with complaint aimed directly at the Mouse House. The tardy release of the film aside (2008’s The Hunger Games received its movie adaptation in 2012; the first Artemis Fowl book was released nearly two decades ago), the Artemis depicted in the trailer is far from the cold, calculating and callous adolescent of Eoin Colfer’s novels. There is no doubt Artemis is brilliant, yet repeatedly throughout the series, he believes his superior intellect is what gives him license to enact cruelty. But by the novel’s final adventure, Artemis Fowl and The Last Guardian, he emerges selfless and his transformation feels earned; a victory that redeemed the losses along the way.

Source: Daily Sun March 16, 2020 12:45 UTC