JUST LEAVE MY PRECIOUS CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ALONE!!!

[bennet_7]

So. I commented on one of dangermousie's posts using this icon here. She asked me where it was from and I replied, saying it was from Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel and created by ginger001.

This led me to feel slightly nostalgic for the excellent first movie and fairly decent sequel so I popped over to IMDB to see if there were any production stills. I did a search for "Anne of Green Gables" and came up with this:

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2009)

My jaw hit the floor. They couldn't possibly be making another sequel, could they? I absoluteley loathe the third film this team made based on the Anne books. It in no way resembles the series except for the fact that there is a red-haired girl named Anne and a guy named Gilbert. It's set during World War 1 and Anne goes to Europe disguised as a NUN and sorta develops feelings for a guy who IS NOT GILBERT!!!

That's not even the half of it. Suffice to say, the third film is incredibly bad, doesn't resemble the books and I wish it never existed.

So I had to learn more about this 'New Beginning' and IMDB was no help, aside from the title. Google didn't let me down though and I have discovered that this isn't going to be a sequel - it's going to be a prequel.

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, the story of Anne's life prior to her arrival at Green Gables, will be written and directed by Kevin Sullivan.

The movie will be based on hints in the original book about what Anne's life might have been like, Sullivan told CBC News Wednesday.

"Montgomery alluded to Anne's beginnings, and with the 100th anniversary [of the first publication of the book] coming up I began to think a bit more about all the unanswered questions behind Anne's beginnings," he said.

"I'm constantly questioned about it by fans all around the world. So many people have been asking me if I ever planned to do anything with Anne again, so I began to give it some serious thought." source

So basically, he's going to write his own back story for Anne, based on the details that Montgomery does give in the books, rather than try and film anything that Montgomery did write.

Swell.

I'm sorry but after that third film I just do not trust this man. The Anne series is my absolute childhood favourite (the books have their own special shelf) and though the first film was magnificent, subsequent efforts have not been deserving of Anne's legacy.

I want to break something into itty bitty pieces.

Comments

[afrocurl.livejournal.com]

I love the first two movies, as well, and I don't thing I ever saw the third one (though it makes me very happy to have not hearing you talk about it.)

As for this prequel--I'm cautious as well. This could be good, or horribly wrong.

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

The third film is the absolute worst sequel in the history of sequels. The timeline suddenly moves forward about 30 years so that instead of Anne's children fighting in WWI, Gilbert and Anne are just getting married when he enlists as a doctor. When he goes missing in action, she travels to Europe disguised as a NUN! to find him where she sorta crushes on this journalist dude. Gilbert lives, journalist dude dies, Anne and Gilbert adopt journalist dude's son and Bennet wails in shock, horror and disbelief.

The first film is brilliant and I love it. The second film changes a bunch of stuff but still manages to capture the spirit of the Anne books and Gilbert has better hair so I'm ok with it. The third film is just awful. I'm amazed that someone can spend as much time filming L.M. Montgomery's works as Kevin Sullivan did and then produce that crap.

[sarah-p.livejournal.com]

WHAT? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

And the ONLY redeemable thing about the debacle that was the third movie (which, you know, had NOTHING TO DO with ANY of the books EVER) was that the same actors were playing Anne and Gilbert and Diana and the like. Which COULD make it worse, except that at least in my head, there isn't some sort of "fake" Gilbert and Anne. Still, though. That movie...Yeeeeeouch.

My obsession for the first two will never, EVER fade, though. OMG, I LOVE THEM SO!

[bennet-7.livejournal.com]

I WISH I was kidding but I am not!

That movie is so, so awful but you're right, at least we had some of the same actors.

The only way they could make this prequel worse is by including Jar Jar Binks.

My obsession for the first two will never, EVER fade, though. OMG, I LOVE THEM SO!

Me too! Anne and Gilbert FOREVER!!!