Thanks to Gutenberg.org, I am rereading them all right now. If you have not checked out gutenberg.org, do so, loads of old material free, but donate if you can. Between Burroughs, Doyle and Robert E. Howard (and of course Homer, never too far from my 1926 copy of the Illiad), you are talking the literature of my teen years. I am hoing that it is not a flop, as I would like to see some of the other books made, not to mention a resurgence in popularity for some of the fathers of science fiction.
Never understood why the writers have to mess with the original codex, but I guess they want to pu their own stamp on it, or they think it needs modernized or Americanized (adding Tom Sawyer to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because they felt American audiences would not identify with English Literary characters, because they haven't read them). Always irritates me to see 20000 leagues under the sea, or mysterious island with the love interest added. I have high hopes,.