I thought I Would Sail About a Little

Terrifying film adaptation concepts:

“Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick,’ ” Cooper said. “This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story.”

The good news is that Moby-Dick is in the public domain, so some day what we’ll actually get is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the falling cost of visual effects to make an uncompromising film adaptation.