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Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:18 AM

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Originally posted by CrimsonStar:
I heard a rumor that Ender's Game was being made a while back, but I haven't heard anything about it going into production.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/
Screenplay by OSC, with Wolfgang Petersen attached to direct. Planned for 2007, but no updates since February 2004. It's still a rumour.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot", from "Essential . . . "

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:19 AM

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Originally posted by RocketJock:
Glory Road ...snip...
This is a film that I've kept casting and re-casting in my head for nearly thirty years.

It may be Heinlein's most visual novel, & my favourite among those that didn't win a Hugo. Did Mandy Patinkin fit into your plans, say, ten to fifteen years back? If Christian Bale could bulk up by thirty pounds, I think he could be ECGordon (btw, he posts on this site).

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H. Beam Piper's Lone Star Planet (AKA A Planet for Texans)

I've been able to see his Space Viking, vividly, for forty years. For the past year & a quarter, when thinking of Lucas Trask, I see Malcolm Reynolds (& Nathan Fillion).

I couldn't tell either of these stories @movie length. Reckon I'd need about eight hours for Glory Road. A beautiful thing about Space Viking is that Piper's story could be just the first season, but Jerry Pournelle has the movie rights &, rumour has it, has drafted a screenplay.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Sky Is Crying (Live)", from "Essential . . . "

NEUTRINOLAD

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:08 AM

Nine Princes in Amber - please, Peter Jackson?
John Carter of Mars - Barsoom! What's not to love?
The Autobiographies of John Mortimer (Clinging To The Wreckage and the second one whose-title-I-forget-just-now) - an old style movie, in the manner of Goodbye Mr. Chips
Astonishing X-Men, current run - should be a tv series. A long running tv series.
Jesuits, by Jean Lacouture - would make a dandy documentary
Known Space Universe, Larry Niven - a series based on Niven's Known Universe tales, wow
The Dying Earth, Jack Vance - another universe rich with infinte interest.
The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, M. F. K. Fisher - I have a vision of this as a 20 hour mini-series that would be rapturous

GAVIDA

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:39 AM

Hmmm, I would love to see a "Starship Trooper" movie... NOT something losely (sp?) based on the book, but a real "Heinlein's Starship Trooper"-Movie.

I would like to see movies made from the Books:

The Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson

Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Inferno - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Janissaries - Jerry Pournelle

Some others have already been mentioned:

Ringworld - Larry Niven

The Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

See ya,
Gavida

THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:31 PM

airylii wrote:

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That's a bit like with me and Korean..I moved to the states when I was 4/5 and learned English then and now I can speak both, but I'm way more proficient with English. I really wish I could be more fluent, especially now that we've moved back to Asialand.

Hey that sounds cool. You get about a bit :)

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Yeah, I can see that...Also, I hear London is crazy crazy expensive. Not healthy for a wallet of my size.

This is true. All my friends who live in London say the same thing:
"If you have money - London's great! "

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That's pretty awesome! I've brainwashed some of my cousins and I had a friend randomly IM me from Hong Kong saying, "But what I don't understand is..Why do they all keep trying to speak Chinese?" :P Hopefully, I'll be able to convince some more of my friends once I go back to school in the fall..just in time for Serenity!

He, he.... I guess for chinese speaking people it must seem strange that they drop in the odd sentence here and there :)

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Heh yeah, it was a lot of fun. I still write every now and then and plan to do a whole lot of it during the summer, when I have more time. Currently, I'm working on a couple of projects, one of them being a..well, I don't know how to describe it, really. I guess the premise is a bit like the Alchemist in that it's about just a boy, but in my story he grows up to be the historical Muslim ruler who built most of La Alhambra. It's a mix of history and fiction, with a lot of mythical/fantastic elements on the way. I think I may have to rewrite the entire thing though; I started it around last year and I only have the very beginning of it done, but so far, the writing is just kind of...bad. So yeah, more work on that is desperately needed. It does end quite tragically though. Haha yeah, I think all of this reading has influenced me way too much in the art of literary sadism/masochism.

Keep at it. Accumulate enough so that when you come to editing it down you have enough great! stuff to keep. I think it requires being quite ruthless with your ideas - if you feel there's stuff that is "so,so" then ditch it in favour of the stuff that you think is strong. However stick with it. I've been to La Alhambra. It's beautiful. Interestingly enough some of the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was shot there!

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Your project sounds really interesting...any chance of you posting it anywhere? I would love to read it. Dense mythology is always the best kind; just look at Tolkein.

Thanks :) however Tolkien it aint! You know I'd love to post it up on my site, but I'd feel better if I could secure it as my own on an official level first. You see I'm trying to pitch it to publishers. So I want to be secure in the knowledge that it's had no way of being reached by the outside. I know that sounds a touch 'precious' but a few years back some work I did was taken from me illegally and unfortunately through bad circumstances I wasn't able to claim anything back. Since then I've been extremely careful about things.

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Haha that's actually quite prudent. I'm that way with a lot of things...I think because I grew up around Star Trek-crazy people, I've successfully avoided it my entire life.

I can see that - it makes you 'not' want to like it doesn't it. I only found this with the later star trek derivatives. I always liked the original series, it was fun.

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You know, that's a great way of describing Hemingway. I took a Hemingway and Fitzgerald course last spring, and one of the projects was to write short stories in the style of Hemingway and it was hard. I mean I naturally write short, simple, terse sentences and I hate adding phrases like "he said", but doing it Hemingway-style was still very difficult. I'm definitely going to read Farewell to Arms though; I've heard all sorts of good things about it.

That sound slike an interesting project. I'd actually find it very difficult. I tend to over embelish sometimes :)

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Magical Realism, huh? That actually sounds pr

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CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:00 PM

Neverwhere would be great, though I'd like to point out that the book was based on the series as many people seem to think it was the other way around. Personally I prefered the series as the book seemed to think the reader was stupid on many occasions.

The Dark Tower would be amazing, though it'd undoubtably bomb. I agree a series might be better.

I was looking forward to I Am Legend as a film until Francis Lawrence signed on to direct, and I hear he wants Will Smith in the lead role. *Shudder*

Don Quixote would be good but PLEASE don't let Terry Gilliam make it, I love him but having Johnny Depp as a time traveller who goes back in time to meet him is just... stupid.

BLACKOUTNIGHTS

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:50 PM

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Originally posted by Gavida:
Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

The Dragonlance Chronicles - Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

See ya,
Gavida

I absolutely loved Lucifer's Hammer. Such great visuals and such a great story. I was frankly surprised when all those meteor movies hit the theaters [Armegeddon and that other one I forget the name of] and Hollywood completely missed LH.

Dragonlance Chronicles could be real fun.

Dark Tower; The only way this could be done right ... and it's how I'd do it if I could ... would be to make the movies [and put it like this for anyone who's not read to series] take up where the books left off. Start off showing Roland with the horn. It'd make deviations from the book more tolerable and acceptable.

But, of course, the movies I'm just dying to see, and I can't believe no one has mentioned them, are Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. It'd be a task and a long commitment, but boy! What a ride! C'mon, Lewis' seven Narnia books are being adapted.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."—Stephen King

CAPTAINNAPALM

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:42 PM

I've allways thought that Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series was an anime that just happened to be in book form instead of its natural medium.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is such a great book. I wouldn't be suprised to see Hollywood cut out the whole S-Group part though. I think you'd need a voice-over to capture all of Manny's character, but Hollywood would probably blow that off too.

CG has gotten to a point where McCaffery's Pern novels could be pulled off reasonably - at least from a technical point.

I think Jennifer Robberson's Swordancer could make a really good movie with lots of appeal.

Michael Morcock's Elric novels seem right up Tim Burton's alley.

Dragonlance would require the same level of lavish support as Lord of the Rings. And while Dragonlance does have a lot of name recognition - I don't think it has enough outside of the fantasy genre to convince Hollywood to give it that much support (now that I think about it the same goes for Pern)

Speaking of LotR and books that need to be made into movies, Peter Jackson needs to give the same treatment to The Hobbit.

Captain Napalm

AIRYLLI

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
This is true. All my friends who live in London say the same thing:
"If you have money - London's great! "

Haha that's a great quote. I'll just have to go rob a bank or something and then I'll be all set.

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He, he.... I guess for chinese speaking people it must seem strange that they drop in the odd sentence here and there :)

Hee yes. Only I don't think she could quite understand anything they were saying

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Keep at it. Accumulate enough so that when you come to editing it down you have enough great! stuff to keep. I think it requires being quite ruthless with your ideas - if you feel there's stuff that is "so,so" then ditch it in favour of the stuff that you think is strong. However stick with it. I've been to La Alhambra. It's beautiful. Interestingly enough some of the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was shot there!

Yeah, I think the ruthless editing is the hardest part for me. That and the fact that I always seem to go in the direction of condescending to the audience. I'm always afraid they just won't "get it". Which is, incidentally, something I was told over and over to avoid while studying Hemingway.

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Thanks :) however Tolkien it aint! You know I'd love to post it up on my site, but I'd feel better if I could secure it as my own on an official level first. You see I'm trying to pitch it to publishers. So I want to be secure in the knowledge that it's had no way of being reached by the outside. I know that sounds a touch 'precious' but a few years back some work I did was taken from me illegally and unfortunately through bad circumstances I wasn't able to claim anything back. Since then I've been extremely careful about things.

Oh, definitely. I completely understand that..people stealing your stuff is a bitch. So yes, hide hide hide..and good luck with the publishing thing! Let me know how that goes; I've always been curious as to how exactly to go about that.

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I can see that - it makes you 'not' want to like it doesn't it. I only found this with the later star trek derivatives. I always liked the original series, it was fun.

Heh yeah, exactly. Although apparently, in order to be a real scifi fan, I'm supposed to at least know what Star Trek is about. Hee so I guess I should get on that sooner or later..

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That sound slike an interesting project. I'd actually find it very difficult. I tend to over embelish sometimes :)

Oh, me too. The editing was the hardest part; I had to chop out a lot of parts that I realized didn't sound a bit like Hemingway.

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In simple terms; Magical realism is the removal of factual constraints facilitating fantasy to further a story within the confines of reality :) he, he... Yep simple.

Real simple. :Gives Jayne's crazy ivan face from the Serenity pilot: :P

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I'll have to try and catch that. It'll be interesting to see how they do it.

Yeah, definitely check that out; I only got to see the first Act or so, but it was very well done. And the girl playing- damn, I can't even remember her name; the youngest one- did obsessed nuttiness very well.

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Ooops! This time I thought it was your turn to reply, and now I've just checked and it was my turn all along. Sorry.

Oh and one last thing... You're in San Francisco now?

Haha it's all good. I flew back from San Francisco on Saturday. Actually, I hadn't had a chance to ask you- everything okay with you over there in England? We heard about the bombings pretty late in California, and the NYTimes hadn't even had a chance to report it yet. So far, most people I know are okay, but it must be insane over there right now. Hope everything is well.

San Francisco was absolutely gorgeous; we visited Berkeley and Stanford, both of which I loved. I think so far Stanford is my first choice, which doesn't bode well for me because I think they have somethng against admitting stupid people

. We'll s

AIRYLLI

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by CaptainNapalm:
Speaking of LotR and books that need to be made into movies, Peter Jackson needs to give the same treatment to The Hobbit.

I second that. I always did love the Hobbit; I read it before anything else. And at the time, I'd never even heard of anything like "Lord of the Rings", so when the movies came out, I was like whoa, that sounds like this book I read one time...

Yuhuh. I was twelve. So sue me.

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