A Potpourri of SciFi-Fantasy-Horror III (film) (1 Viewer)

[Rex Bachmann]

SciFi Wire: "Salva Winds Up The Watch"http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-09/19/10.00.film

dateline: September 19, 2003 9:00 a.m. ET

 

[Rex Bachmann]

SciFi Wire: "Foundation Moves Ahead"http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-10/09/13.00.film

dateline: October 9, 2003 9:00 a.m. ET

Spielberg and King. Now, that's a marriage made in . . . .(?)

 

[Jason Seaver]

novels]. (Too long.) Would someone in the know comment on how well he thinks these might translate to big-budget Hollywood-style film-making? (Mostly) Intact?

Too long? The original three books are ~200 pages each, and are the only truly essential ones.

As to translating them intact, almost certainly not. All three books are collections of short stories originally published in Astounding with only one "character" bridging them. Trying to make a narrative out of them would require massive restructuring (or an anthology-type film, which would be a nifty choice). Second Foundation is basically two long and related stories, and will be much easier to adapt. I believe the previous script came mostly from that third collection.

 

[Dan Rudolph]

The short stories of Foundation are all built around a greater plot, so I think it would work as an anthology movie. As for how intact it would be, it'd quite talky as sci-fi epics go. Not sure how well that would work in a movie.

 

[Shoaib Lateef]

anyone know if rendevous with rama will EVER be made into a motion picture??

 

[Rex Bachmann]

Shoaib Lateef wrote (post #5):

Nobody knows for sure, of course, but this

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&postid=1416298&t=9237#post1416298 is the latest published news I've seen on it.

 

[Rex Bachmann]

SciFi Wire: "Film Adapts Asimov's Eternity" [note: link unfindable]

dateline: October 30, 2003 9:00 a.m. ET

 

[Todd Terwilliger]

Rex,

Thanks for posting the links.

I love hearing news about more sci-fi/fantasy films in the making. I'll keep my fingers crossed for a few gems among them.

 

[Rex Bachmann]

SciFi Wire: "Stars Cast in German Ring"http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-11/13/10.30.film

dateline: November 13, 2003 9:00 a.m. ET

This is one I'd pay to see. What a wild ride that would be, IF they got it even close to right! Do they have the guts to show some guts, or will this be "ennobled" and bled dry for popular consumption?