And even the most technologically advanced and violent adaptation ofĪ fairy tale is still perceived as a fairy tale – thus nullifying two demographicsĪt once (no mean feat…) The leads were bland enough to induce narcolepsy and Though the title was guaranteed to keep teenagers away – how cool are you, if you’reīuying a ticket to “Jack the Giant Slayer”?Ĭhildren. The action is far too violent, the chaos far too intense for children, even That the move was directed at family audiences or kids, which was hardly theĬase. (Similarly, Disney excised “of Mars” from “John Carter,” Andrew Stanton’s disastrous adaptation of the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic Martian novels.) Sly Stallone, “Killer” was too harsh a term for public consumption. Apparently,Įven as the studio was releasing “Bullet to the Head,” starring that giant of death-dealing Slayer was a metal band or a high school vampire chaser.
Jack and the Beanstalk or Jack the Giant Killer. Killer”? Did anyone grow up hearing about Jack the Giant Slayer? No, it was either Symptomatic of a general strategic collapse: “Jack the Giant Slayer” was somehow better than “Jack the Giant WB doesn’t even want to address, and something rather incidental except that it’s The first clue was the changing of the title, something
– including audiences, ultimately - knew who this big lumbering movie Nothing to do with art and everything to do with commercial malpractice: But the long-delayed $200-million film’s anemic showing was indicative of Make a soulless 3-D disaster film out of a timeless children’s story was
That the wheel-spinning Bryan Singer would The dwarfish $28 million domestic that Warnerīros.’ “ Jack the Giant Slayer” grossed over the weekend was what? A