from what I've heard of this movie, it might replace Percy Jackson as the worst "did anyone on set even read the book" movies
Yeeeah, this is one of those situations where it's kind of. "It's good not to make the whole cast white, but did you think about the implications of this." I mean, to be fair, "Root is a woman" could be pretty much the greatest if still played exactly like book!Root. Gross, angry, yelling, chain-cigar-smoking police chief who's totally going to fire you, but it's Judy Dench. But I think we all know that's not what they're going to do. I KNOW. That's the worst part! The pacing is very cinematic, and the plot is structured in such a way that you wouldn't have to hack a lot of bits off or work really hard to finagle it into a movie runtime. Get some people who know how to put together a heist movie and the script writes itself. But instead they're mashing the first two books together (probably to try to cram it into a YA Fantasy Adventure(TM) story mold and make Artemis into a straight hero instead of a tiny supervillain who happens to be a viewpoint character), so they're going to be leaving stuff out left and right and shooting the pacing of the stuff they DON'T leave out in the foot.
I feel like Holly's skin is described as tan on at least one occasion, which makes some of the casting even more :/
Okay so I went looking for my 17-year-old copy of the book that got left out in the rain once, and this is literally on the fifth page: Artemis has such a great sense of humor, you guys. 4 pages later he demonstrates his warm-heartedness by poisoning someone so he can extort them by offering an antidote.
Yeah. You'd have to alter the whole deal with Holly and sexism and whatnot, but you could make it work. Like M in the Daniel Craig Bond movies crossed with Sergeant Jackrum, and also hates you personally. It would be great, and I am unfortunately pretty sure it's not what they're going to do.
