I am a fan of adaptations: books to movies, movies to musicals, plays to movies, movies to plays, TV shows to YA book series, the list goes on and on. I have no problem with this so long as the intentions and integrity of the original are maintained, and the new medium to which it’s adapted also maintains its integrity. Just with any original material, things can turn out well or badly:

Books to movies: Harry Potter = Yay! The Baby-sitters Club (1995) = Boo!

Movies to musicals: Legally Blonde = Yay! Fame = Boo!

TV shows to YA book series: Full House Stephanie books = Yay! Full House Michelle books = Boo!

So, here’s a thought I had the other day: why aren’t more songs adapted into other mediums? I mean, we have rock operas based on concept albums (The Who’s Tommy, American Idiot). Why not a movie based on a story song? “Now, Patty,” you ask, “whatever could have brought on this thought?” And I reply, “Well, I was listening to my iPod on shuffle, as I am want to do, and the 2002 Avril Lavigne hit Sk8er Boi came on. Then I thought, ‘Wouldn’t this make a great movie?’”

Paramount Pictures thought so, at least for a hot second. The song was optioned in 2003, but according to Wikipedia, the project has been shelved. What?! No! While I don’t think this is actually a “good” idea, who wouldn’t watch this movie? Just listening to the song, you really get to feel for these tortured teens. I mean, he was a punk and she did ballet! What more can I say?! It’s a classic story of star-crossed lovers, and I would watch it. If only to see my dream cast of Ryan Sheckler playing Sk8er Boi opposite Taylor Swift’s Ballerina. And since the end of the song is set in the future, Avril can play “herself” and be in the studio singing that they wrote about a girl he used to know. Now, we just throw in some other high school stereotypes and celebrity cameos, and we’re good to go! Miley Cyrus will be cast as the bitchy friend, who in the future gets tickets to Sk8er Boi’s rock show (without inviting her old high school friend Ballerina. See, told ya she was a bitch). Stephen Colbert as Ballerina’s disapproving father will also end up at the rock show (also not having invited his daughter) and fall in love with Sk8ter Boi’s mom, played by Courtney Love. Zac Efron will play against type and be Ballerina’s jerk future husband (remember, Ballerina has a baby in the in song!). Tell me this isn’t a blockbuster in the making.

Now, if I could only have gotten GEICO to adapt their Tiny House commercial into a TV show instead of the Cavemen, I’d be the happiest girl alive.