{"id":13226,"date":"2021-10-16T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T00:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13226"},"modified":"2021-10-16T21:05:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T01:05:43","slug":"the-bar-cannot-be-lowered-the-bar-has-hit-the-magma-core-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13226","title":{"rendered":"The bar cannot be lowered. The bar has hit the magma core of the earth."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a short post because honestly, there’s not a lot to say about this other than, “well, that’s predictable.” Because it has\u00a0never<\/em> been a surprise to see shitty people’s shitness ignored in favor of cash. It’s just how the world works and I think we’re all pretty comfortable with stating that as a blanket truth, right?<\/p>\n

Jamie McGuire’s\u00a0Beautiful Disaster<\/em> is getting a movie adaptation.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if that news has been officially announced by McGuire because I’m not a QAnon conspiracy theorist so I don’t follow her on Parler, but I got a DM from a true MVP that included these screenshots:<\/p>\n

Back when she was still on Twitter, McGuire tweeted the following:<\/p>\n

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McGuire’s text reads, “Look who’s reading Beautiful Disaster… Director\/writer Roger Kumble. Just wrapped the After We Collided movie. Maybe let him know how you’d feel about a BD movie? #gofam #timetogetexcited” above a tweet she’s quoted from Roger Kumble, in which he’s apparently listing books he’s reading right now.<\/p>\n

And whoa, hey, look what ole Roger is up to:<\/p>\n

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As my source kindly highlighted here, “Untitled Roger Kumble Project” is a feature film going into production in Bulgaria in October, 2021. And it sounds…familiar. I mean, the synopsis is, “Allie plans to spend college buried in books, but those plans go out the window when she meets Davis Molloy, an amateur bare-knuckle boxer and college campus charmer.” So, has Kumble ripped off McGuire’s magnum opus?<\/p>\n

No. You see, Kumble is no newcomer to Hollywood. He directed his first film,\u00a0Cruel Intentions<\/em> (yes, that\u00a0Cruel Intentions<\/em>) in 1999. So, surely he’s aware that certain unsavory connections to “Untitled Roger Kumble Project” could make it difficult to cast or distribute.<\/p>\n

For example, the fact that his source material was written by an anti-vaccine, election-fraud-conspiracy-peddling Parler princess who has:<\/p>\n