Remember Alien? A particularly gory and violent science-fiction movie from the 1970s. It spawned a couple sequels, but the first was really gross.
So! Now Disney Corp., aided and abetted by Random House and Little Golden Books (what a disappointment! for shame!), next summer will release a children’s book, A Is For Alien, described as “a light-hearted re-imagining of the iconic movie.” How many cliches can they fit into one sentence?
By “children” they mean pre-schoolers.
That scene where the alien parasite tears its way out of John Hurt’s abdomen–think they’ll have that in the children’s book? And what’s next–a light-hearted re-imagining of Hannibal Lecter’s personal cookbook? All for the children, of course.
Man, there are air forces that drop fewer bombs than Disney.
While we snarl at each other, Disney, teachers’ unions, the Democrat Party, and all their friends are injecting poisons into our culture. I saw Alien in the theater: I like monster movies. But I wasn’t four years old at the time.
(“Yeahbut, yeahbut! It’s a book–it isn’t like the movie!”)
Are the groomers at Disney Corp. crazy… or do they know us better than we think? Heaven forbid the latter.
The Scholastic journals that have been in the elementary schools forever have gone woke bigtime also.
The only solution is to pull children out of the clutches of the teachers’ unions.
So much for the Pokey Little Puppy…
I like the Alien movie and its sequel (not really crazy about 3, 4 or the other derivations) but making a book for 2-5 year olds? I REALLY thought this was a joke created by AI like those that have been going around with Disney “movie posters” generated with less-than-child-friendly topics, but nope. Real thing. Appalling. But… it’s all under Disney now, so not surprised by their pushing inappropriate things for kids.
As soon as I see the word reimagined, I know that nonsense will follow.