Huck Finn, the novel, is too long and complex to be a regular movie, anyway. My only experience with movie making was functioning as an extra in two full length films made by Paramount and 20th Century Fox. in 1974. But, if I had charge of this project and an unlimited budget, I'd have Huck do a first person voice-over (as in The Old Man and the Sea), and I'd make it about a five-part mini-series for TV, as was Lonesome Dove. Tim Champlin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ballard, Terry" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:15 AM Subject: Re: Here we go again: another Huck makeover by Hollywood > Try this one: > > http://tinyurl.com/6wjjv6p > > Love the word "reimagine." Sounds like a euphemism for a lot of other > terms= > in my vocabulary that would not be as sympathetic. As far as I'm > concerned= > , the Will Vinton Twain movie had a few good minutes of Mysterious > Stranger= > - otherwise the only decent adaptations of Twain on film were done in the > = > 1930s. > > Terry=20 > > Terry Ballard > Assistant Director of Technical Services for Library Systems > New York Law School, Mendik Library > 185 W. Broadway > New York, NY, 10013 > Telephone: 212-431-2106 > Web: www.terryballard.org > Blog: librariansonedge.blogspot.com > Tweets: twitter.com/terryballard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of westbook > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 10:51 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Here we go again: another Huck makeover by Hollywood > > Ben, I must have missed something or this link isn't working properly. > Tim Champlin > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: "Click, Benjamin A" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:22 AM > Subject: Here we go again: another Huck makeover by Hollywood > > >> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/mark-twain-huck-tom-paramoun= > t-=3D >> 3 >> 02919 >> >> >> Ben Click >> Professor/Chair, English >> Director, Twain Lecture Series on >> American Humor and Culture >> St. Mary=3DB9s College of Maryland >> 240-895-4253=20