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Pledge “aboysrabbitcaper”

"I will not attempt to adapt Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys into a screenplay featuring all the characters as rabbits involved in a caper in a chocolate factory but only if 100 other random people will not do it, either."

— Widgett Walls, That guy. The one with no life. (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 26^th March 2011
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I don't want to see Neil standing by the side of the freeway.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/0...

And neither do you. So pledge today. Give till it hurts.

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• Actually, I would like to see him on the side of the freeway. It would be even better if he handcuffed himself to a railing and had a sign that said, "Down with this sort of thing." You know you all would be there giggling at the reference to "Father Ted" and taking pictures. ;)
  Stephanie B., 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Oh please no! You really do have no life!
  
  I'm terribly sorry too.
  Molly Black, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Of course, what Neil probably isn't telling us is that the whole notion of rabbits/chocolate factory/caper was taken from an actual rejected adaptation of Sandman. And before you laugh, consider that at least one I Am Legend script would have been better had all the vampires been rabbits and Neville worked as the head of a chocolate factory. So it can really get that bad.
  Widgett Walls, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I definitely won't do it. Here's hoping http://angryalien.com won't either.
  Nathan McGrady, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• There is no chance that I will attempt to do this at all, ever. I could on the other hand, be talked into creating a soundtrack from old Raffi, Sharon, Lois and Bram and Mini Pops albums, as background music for said film, but only if the rabbits all agree.
  Todd, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I most definitely promise not to do this. I think an adaptation involving squirrels in a disaster movie in a toffee factory would be truer to the original book, anyway.
  Meredith Raley, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Meredith: Now you're making me want to see an Irwin Allen/Watership Down mashup. Oh well. I'm not sleepin' tonight.
  Widgett Walls, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Although it pains me to abandon my in-progress adaptation so near to completion, I have committed to do so. I will call Joel Schumacher shortly to break the news.
  T.M. Camp, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Tweak it a bit and sell it as a Disney version of Greg Bear's Blood Music. Seriously, like they would know the difference.
  Widgett Walls, 2 years ago. Abusive? Report it!

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