Comic book adaptations are so in right now. The trend started around Sin City and went downhill from there; you can pretty much chart the progression of awfulness that goes from V for Vendetta to The 300 to the steaming dogpile that The Spirit is going to be. Even The Watchmen, the definitive graphic novel for smart people and college students, is prompting preemptive whines from fanboys worried that 300 director Zack Snyder will ruin Alan Moore's dystopian vision.

So you'd think Hollywood producers would get wise to the zeitgeist being over, before something really bad happens (Uwe Boll directing Maus, perhaps?), but nope. The answer obviously, is to turn classics that were never even graphic novels in the first place into comic-book-style films.

Sorry, Moby Dick, you're getting remade by the guy who directed Wanted:

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The now-infamous video of the "security camera catches office freakout," which was exposed as a fraud almost as quickly as everyone assumed it to be, turned out actually to be a viral gimmick for the new Angelina Jolie movie Wanted, from Timur Bekmambetov.

So how does this clip, which shows a cubicle sufferer absolutely lose it in front of his coworkers, fit in with what the movie is about?

Because, as some Russian translating reveals, the movie is about escaping your everyday life, just as the loon in the video wants to. Ehhhh, that's a stretch.