I hope this means Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are planning a unkillable-rat comic horror movie...Cuz look what they’re reading in their newspapers these days: Scientists warn of new 'super rats' Pest experts in parts of Britain have noticed an increase in the number of rats who appear to be immune to poisons. Some had believed the resistance was caused by mother rats feeding the poison to their young and inadvertently increasing their immunity. I see Pegg as the exterminator... Artist’s rendering of the beast:
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posted by bronxbee (Mon May 18 09, 10:43AM)
i think it would be briliant if pegg and wright did a movie based on the allusions in Sherlock Holmes stories to the Giant Rat of Sumatra (which Watson could not write of there due to the fact that governments would fall, or something)... i bet they could do a great jungle/detective/streets of london thing...
posted by C. David Dent (Mon May 18 09, 11:17AM)
What color Cornetto wuld appear in that film?
posted by Pollas (Mon May 18 09, 11:20AM)
More likely the rats have grown resistant to the poisons that have been used by ingesting just a little bit of them over long periods of time. Just like some bacteria have become resistant to the drugs we use to combat them.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Mon May 18 09, 1:17PM)
Apparently, James Herbert was psychic.
posted by misterb (Mon May 18 09, 2:01PM)
@bronxbee,
Alan Vanneman has already written the Giant Rat of Sumatra (http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Giant-Rat-Sumatra/dp/0786709561).
I have yet to find a convincing imitator of Conan Doyle.
posted by bronxbee (Mon May 18 09, 5:17PM)
misterb: doesn't mean pegg/wright couldn't do something with it... how many versions of the Hound of the Baskervilles have been done? (at least 20, including ones in German, Polish, Russian).
posted by misterb (Mon May 18 09, 5:41PM)
bronxbee: Absolutely - while I'm a big fan of the Jermey Brett version, I'm looking forward to the new iconoclastic movie. I meant that Conan Doyle hasn't been approached in *books*. I even liked the Gene Wilder/Marty Feldman Holmes comedy -> certainly that could be updated from the 70's by Pegg/Wright.
As far as I'm concerned, we should have a Sherlock Holmes channel on our cable box.
posted by the rook (Mon May 18 09, 5:59PM)
i, for one, welcome our new mutant rat overlords.