I'm looking at the new 'Charlotte's Web' movie and already not happy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413895/combined

I just discovered my copy of the book about a week ago when cleaning out a closet. In 2006 they're making a live-action film (kinda like 'Babe') with Dakota Fanning playing Fern and Julia Roberts doing the voice of Charlotte (no mention of who is doing the voice of Wilbur).

There seems to be a great cast (Steve Buscemi is Templeton the Rat) but I noticed something odd about the cast - all the animals have names. When I re-read the book none of the animals had names except the spider and the rat. The rest were pretty much referred to as the type of animal they were.

AND to make matters worse they have Ellen Burstyn playing Fern as a grown woman and I guess Fanning's lil sister is playing Fern's granddaughter. And believe me, there was no grownup Fern in the book.

So I guess the book wasn't good enough and they're just going to re-write a masterpiece to their liking. This isn't making me very happy

:cry:

And I use the line "That'll do pig" all the time.

like it would be interesting to watch, but as the saying goes "If it ain't broke,don't fix it"

They used that line as a Jeopardy clue this week, under an "alternate endings" category.

Kind of disturbing.