‘Oh dear God": Kristen Stewart set to butcher ‘1984’ into ‘epic’ love story

http://twitter.com/#!/Slublog/status/423505494750158848

Big Brother is watching … and laughing:

http://twitter.com/#!/JoshXCross/status/423507841342009344

Gird your loins, kids. This is an actual thing that’s actually happening:

I’ve had to check to make sure it isn’t 1 April. It isn’t. This is happening, people. “Equals is an adaptation of the 1956 film 1984, which itself was based on George Orwell’s classic novel about rebellion in a futuristic society,” runs the story. Stewart told the AP that the remake is “a love story of epic, epic, epic proportion”, where “things go wrong because you can’t deny the humanity in everyone”. “It’s the most devastating story,” she said. “I’m terrified of it. Though it’s a movie with a really basic concept, it’s overtly ambitious.”

Most tweeters think it’s an overtly terrible and stupid idea:

https://twitter.com/_LauraCook_/status/423504128635973632

http://twitter.com/#!/jessicaelgot/status/423502223801602049

http://twitter.com/#!/Rachel_J_Lewis/status/423501084246568960

http://twitter.com/#!/GraceMDavey/status/423500992358125569

http://twitter.com/#!/lynn_beyrouthy/status/423500799290146816

http://twitter.com/#!/gogman/status/423506711735840770

http://twitter.com/#!/LucyAuger/status/423507473480155137

http://twitter.com/#!/Slublog/status/423506804992000000

http://twitter.com/#!/ianvisits/status/423506895853600768

We’re inclined to agree.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/01/15/oh-dear-god-kristen-stewart-set-to-butcher-1984-into-epic-love-story/

‘Oh dear God": Kristen Stewart set to butcher ‘1984’ into ‘epic’ love story