I slept today, which was really nice. I also decided that the next big project for me is to successfully adapt H.P. Lovecraft's immortal Call of Cthulu to film, a feat that has never been achieved. Many film scholars will note that all attempts to adapt Lovecraftian material, especially that related to the Cthulu Mythos, to the screen has failed on a consistent basis, and gotten away from Lovecraft's ideas, concepts, and themes. I would like to do a faithful job of it, doing justice to the source material. And no friggin' "Cthulu for the new millenium" crap, either. I hate these films that are nothing more than "updates" of old movies, but change the feel and mood of the source material. I say, if they're going to do a re-make, keep the source material in there and change as little as possible. Sure, you sometimes need artistic licence, but that's different from totally changing the original meaning or feel of the source material. Plus, most updates don't work because the ideas expressed in the original do not fit with the "modern" setting. Examples: Godzilla (the lame Matthew Broderick one), Clueless (not that Jane Austen wasn't annoying to begin with), "Shakespeare's" Romeo + Juliet (as if they couldn't use a simple 'and' like the rest of us) and Treasure Planet (come on, pirates are so much cooler when they aren't cuddly robots) to name a few. One notable exception would be "O", based on Shakespeare's Othello. My point? If you are going to bother trying to re-make a movie, make it at least faithful to the original (unless the original sucks, as in the case of "Highlander". In that case, change it all you want.)