Sci-Fi Books That Need to Become Movies
06-27-03, 02:16 PM
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Is that what they're called? Who's the author?
I really enjoyed those stories, but it seemed like there was just a smidge of a story in each issue and I had to wait forever for the next one. I've always wanted to pick them up.
Is that what they're called? Who's the author?
I really enjoyed those stories, but it seemed like there was just a smidge of a story in each issue and I had to wait forever for the next one. I've always wanted to pick them up.
There acutally was a prequel book as well. "The Day the Tripods Came". I think it was released after the others. It explained how the aliens invaded and how the resistance got started (in the White Mountains). The book is set in the modern time & it says at the end the resistance might take hundreds of years (when the other books are set).
06-28-03, 02:27 AM
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Yes, but "Speaker For The Dead" has very little potential, on the other hand... and so does "Xenocide". They are hard to translate visually into something watchable by Joe SixPac. Anyone remember the failure of Soderbergh's "Solaris"?
06-28-03, 09:18 AM
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Originally posted by Playitagainsam
Anyone remember the failure of Soderbergh's "Solaris"?
Anyone remember the failure of Soderbergh's "Solaris"?
06-28-03, 06:17 PM
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Originally posted by audrey
Box office failures like this make studios reluctant to produce serious sci-fi and entice them to serve up more action oriented fare in its place. Hopefully, Solaris will find new life on DVD.
Box office failures like this make studios reluctant to produce serious sci-fi and entice them to serve up more action oriented fare in its place. Hopefully, Solaris will find new life on DVD.
In a few years this film will experience a similar renaissance.
06-29-03, 10:15 PM
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I saw Soderbergh's "Solaris", and although I enjoyed it much more than I expected, I still believe that remaking - or having another take at - the same novel is nothing less than criminal, since there are so many good pieces of literature out there. If Soderbergh wanted to work with Stanislaw Lem's novels, by Jove! there's plenty of them left... And Tarkovsky's film was still better, too.
I am amazed at the fact that so many older movies are being remade, and there's so much potential left untapped in literature. Hey, Hollywood! Afraid you're paying too much for author's rights or what? Stop making yet another "In-Laws" and get less crazy about making "Harry Potter" multi-film deals... get to work, cease shooting stuff based on comic books and try to go back to real literature.
Ah, and speaking of classics: while I would LOVE to see "The Fountains of Paradise" or "The City and the Stars" being turned into movies, I'd like to punish everyone involved in slaughtering "Bicentennial Man"...
I am amazed at the fact that so many older movies are being remade, and there's so much potential left untapped in literature. Hey, Hollywood! Afraid you're paying too much for author's rights or what? Stop making yet another "In-Laws" and get less crazy about making "Harry Potter" multi-film deals... get to work, cease shooting stuff based on comic books and try to go back to real literature.
Ah, and speaking of classics: while I would LOVE to see "The Fountains of Paradise" or "The City and the Stars" being turned into movies, I'd like to punish everyone involved in slaughtering "Bicentennial Man"...
06-29-03, 10:50 PM
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Originally posted by resinrats
Those are the book titles. I don't have them with me so I don't remember the author. I think it was ...... Christopher or something.
There acutally was a prequel book as well. "The Day the Tripods Came". I think it was released after the others. It explained how the aliens invaded and how the resistance got started (in the White Mountains). The book is set in the modern time & it says at the end the resistance might take hundreds of years (when the other books are set).
Those are the book titles. I don't have them with me so I don't remember the author. I think it was ...... Christopher or something.
There acutally was a prequel book as well. "The Day the Tripods Came". I think it was released after the others. It explained how the aliens invaded and how the resistance got started (in the White Mountains). The book is set in the modern time & it says at the end the resistance might take hundreds of years (when the other books are set).
