Kathrine Gutierrez improves on what looks to be a dreadfully boring movie about Darwin by imagining it as a teen romance:
it should’ve been about him being a young, carefree, drinking-pub-hobbit-pre-ring lad type and then getting roped into a dreary trip to escape his sorrow at losing his girl to a more serious type, and then going to that one island and seeing some crazy huge turtles, and then coming back and giving an impressive speech that both wins him the girl and scientific accolades, maybe Queen Somebody played by a Dame could have a private audience with him and secretly fund his subversive science.
Why not. Real Genius (Val Kilmer, Brian Grazer), Weird Science (John Hughes) and Revenge of the Nerds ($40m on $8m) were all hits. Not to mention War Games.