Am I the only one?
The trailer looks like they hit just the right tone for the film.
And I love the visual of the book cover popping up in the trailer.
I won’t be seeing this Friday night, but I will see it.
I can’t believe you want to see it either. 
From the trailer I saw, I figured they were missing both the generation who read the original books and the “Nancy-Drew-who?” generation. I’m the original book generation and that does not seem like my Nancy.
I was at the local mall and they had a bunch of ads for two movies up around the place, one was Nancy Drew. That was the first I’ve heard of it.
The other was Captivity. Interesting pairing, that.
The Nancy Drew video games have been hugely popular with girls quite recently. Being a guy, I was all about the Hardy Boys, so I don’t know how true the movie is to the books. My bet is that it is tied into the videogame series.
I want to see it.
Nancy Drew was really big for me, I spent a LOT of time in our small town library and read every Nancy Drew they had (and many Hardy Boys, and some of the new ones where they even did crossovers).
Mom wants to see it to, so we’ll probably wait until it’s on DVD and have us a movie night.
Strangely enough, it sounds interesting to me, too. The gist is that Nancy Drew is stuck in the 1950s fashion- and behavior-wise, yet she’s in today’s world. She doesn’t fit in. Almost reminds me of the premise of The Brady Bunch Movie, where the Bradys still act they way they did on the show even though 30 years have passed.
Jenn Fisher, who runs the very interesting Nancy Drew Sleuth website, was a consultant on the film. She says the film is not based on any particular Nancy Drew mystery, but has the feeling of one. The director is apparently a fan of the Nancy Drew books.
(A brief history of the character in books, courtesy of Fisher’s website: the Nancy Drew character first appeared in 1930. Books number 1-34 were released from 1930 to 1956, and books number 35-56 to 1979. At the same time (1959-1975), the text of the first 34 books was modified to appeal to modern audiences. These are the versions of these books that are still in print today. The original series ended in 2003 with book #175. The current Nancy Drew series is up to its 25th volume. There are also many other spinoff series, including books for younger readers and a manga-style comic series. All Nancy Drew books are released under the pseudonym “Carolyn Keene.” I encourage you to visit Fisher’s website for more information. As for Nancy in the movies- she appeared in a number of Warner Bros. features in 1938, which have just been released to DVD.)
You read the books in the 1930’s?
I’ll see it, because I read the Nancy Drew books obsessively as a child, but I’m not thrilled about the ads I’ve seen. My love of Nancy had a lot to do with the fact that she was both smart and seemingly cool. She had great friends and a boyfriend and was beautiful and had a cool car, and such. Recasting her as a small town dork, unable to fit in in the big city is not so much in keeping with my childhood fantasies of being Nancy Drew–it’s more in keeping with my adult realities of being a small town dork trying to fit in in the big city, and I get quite enough of that at home.
Oh, nice attention to detail, young sleuth! No, but maybe I would have if I’d been born back then. 
watches the trailer
I think a little bit of my soul just died.
If they wanted to remake Clueless, why not just remake Clueless? Nancy is many things, but perky isn’t one of them. Or shouldn’t be. I mean, she runs with her arms straight and her hands cocked out, fer chrissakes! 
Bondage fans like Nancy Drew books because Nancy was always getting captured, bound and gagged by the bad guys in the original series, but we’ve learned – bondage never happens in Nancy Drew movies or TV shows.
The trailer makes it look like run-of-the-mill tween dreck to me. I wish Hollywood didn’t always have to “update” everything. That insults the fans and shows contempt for the source material. This isn’t really a Nancy Drew movie at all. It just has a character with the same name. Honestly, it looks like any of the crap my 7 year old watches on the Disney Channel after school.
My thoughts exactly. I was a huge fan, and I’ll probably read them with my kids, if I have any.
Oh, and Evil Captor? It’s funny you say that. Last night, my husband was asking me what the books are like, since he’s never read any. I told him a bunch of stuff, including that Nancy was always “bound and gagged” sometime in the story. It was the first time I’d really thought of it that way.
Hey, you left out the part where she gets knocked out! Oops, my paraphilia is showing again! Ha!
Here is an interesting article about adaptations from books to film written by film makers and authors.
Actually, I have my mom’s books from the 1930’s. They’re in terrible shape, but still readable. And I DO read them.
yeah the trailer left me disgusted. it is modern teen crap. I would have at least expecvt the trailer to be more mystery oriented. I mean she is a sleuth right? It seems like the movie is more about her teen fitting in drama than using her talents to discover nefarious schemes. geeez. way to ruin another aspect of my youth. I mean even a Pamela Sue Martin style Nancy Drew would be better than this drivel.
I just like children’s entertainment. Even though I’m not a child, and I like ‘adult’ entertainment, I like to watch movies or shows ment for a younger audience. I doubt that you could sell a ‘real Nancy Drew’ movie to today’s teen audience. I think what they are doing is very clever.
I’ve only read, a few of, the post 50’s whitewashed versions. Are there that many non-pc things in the originals?
I was a Trixie Belden girl myself, but I seem to remember, in the one or two Nancy Drew books I read, that she was about 18 years old, right? In the movie trailer she looks about 13.