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>trapped in development hell for so long that it not only missed out exploiting not only the initial popularity of the books, but also the nostalgia that young parents might have
>only managed to get released by the age old tactic of stitching the IP to someone else's script and hoping for the best
At this point I'm glad most of the books I read as a teen dodged adaption, or at the very least had a quirky animated movie and some decent tv movies to make up for the absolute abomination of a tv series it got.