This movie will be a puff piece.
I agree. I believe I heard Jolie refer to it as being "a testament of the human spirit and how people come together" or something like that. Unfortunately whenever I hear that first phrase I grown inside because I know it's going to be liberal, humanist, crap.
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Yep, the beheading will morph into Pearl being tickled until he wets his pants then he'll get ice cream with his new pals, exactly the way his widow wrote it in the book.