Guten Tag drones.

Once again I’ve left this to the last minute.  I thought I’d have Monday off, but then a deposition I thought would be canceled instead had the nerve to go forward and now I have to show up, just because I said I would.

Speaking of things I said I’d do that now I have to do, it’s Sunday night, which means tomorrow morning is Monday, which means we need a mock draft.  We’re getting to the end of these, so I guess I can grit my teeth and power through.

Last week we did movies that were adapted from a book, but very, very badly.  Naturally, due to my limited imagination, we’re going to be drafting movies adapted from books, but very, very well.

No spoilers, (it’s literally the featured image), but Stephen King is going #1 in this one.

The rules are just as simple, and just as easily ignored, as they were last week.  It has to be a MOVIE, based on a BOOK, and you have to LIKE THE WAY THEY ADAPTED THE MOVIE FROM THE BOOK.  Three things.  Even the simplest of simpletons can do this.  You people?  Well, let’s just say Lowratio is probably gonna win $20 from me betting someone fucks this up within 7 picks.  Prove him wrong, DFO, prove him wrong.

Without further ado I’m gonna get busy draftin’ and take ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ adapted from Stephen King’s novella ‘Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption’ in his Different Seasons collection.

King’s title is much better, but let’s face it, it ain’t gonna fit on a marquee.  The book is great, the movie, in what is really unusual for a King book-to-movie, might be better.

We’ve got two more mock drafts before the off-season comes in and well but out our Hippo-Speak-To-English dictionaries.  Both remaining drafts will feature ideas suggested by Canadiens, so get the Molsons, Labatts, and Big Turks ready, eh?

As for this week, you are now on the clock.