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Drag's partner is 10 minutes into reading Artemis Fowl and already hates the movie (lemmy.nz)
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Drag showed the Artemis Fowl movie trailer to drag's dragon right before it started reading Artemis Fowl. So far:

Artemis is clearly an evil white collar criminal
Artemis is the bad guy in the story
Artemis is NOT a surfer.

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[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Didn't even bother watching the movie after seeing the teaser for it.

I don't understand why they change everything so much? Same thing with Percy Jackson. Especially after the huge success of Hary Potter, you'd think greedy studios would want that.

[โ€“] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago

Because Artemis Fowl isn't anything like the popular children's media. The protagonist is the bad guy? He's a child who kidnapped a fairy to ransom her for gold? It's awesome, and Disney will never approve a movie with that plot, even though they wanted to use the IP.