Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy fabnol.
If we
must have
a live-action Tinkerbell movie, Elizabeth Banks is probably the least objectionable choice I can think of to play the mercurial green-clad fairy. McG's rumored involvement is troubling, especially since the other writer is Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, a first-timer with limited acting experience, but if she brings any lessons over from
Meet Monica Velour, the movie she's acting in with Kim Cattrall where the latter plays an aging porn actress who is wooed by a younger man, there might be something there. I just really don't want to see Tinkerbell, and Elizabeth Banks, stuck with a petty, spoiled, jealous, stupid characterization. Can we have a version more like
Tim Burton's planned Maleficent movie, where Peter Pan's an immature heartbreaker, Wendy's a boyfriend stealer, and Tinkerbell ends up with someone far more deserving? And where she doesn't get stuck in a bell jar or get the life shaken out of her for someone else's purposes?
