what was the original ending to the day the earth stood still? that is in my top 10 of all time.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:09 PM, cat <[email protected]> wrote: > > TexasTubaMan wrote: > > Why would it be good to remake Westworld? No one could ever replace > > Yul Brenner. It was a good movie, does not need to be remade. > > Exactly, there has been no improvement in film tech that would be a > benefit to "Westworld" and what we have now would tempt (and we all know > how well Hollywood resists that) the studio to way overdo the FX for the > remake. Admittedly they could modernize it since many of the things > which were SF then are normal now but that would not really improve the > film. > > > There are great sci fi novels that have not seen the light of a > > screen, but are ignored. How can we never have seen anything by Larry > > Niven hit the big screen? Can you just visualize Ringworld? Or how > > about Fritz Leiber's "Gather Darkness". I would love to see Peter > > Jackson pick up on that. Or if we want simpler, how about Orson Scott > > Card's "Ender's Game". > > Both "Ringworld" and "Ender's Game" have options though nothing > has > been happening with them. > Lieber would be great for film. His Fafhard and the Grey Mouser > would > make a great film series but they would probably be ruined by the > Hollywood treatment. I pitched his "The Green Millennium" as I thought > it would be a great film able to be made on a small budget. > Remember Hollywood does not want intelligent films, They just want > ones > which easily sell to the brain dead masses. > > cat > > > > -- Saying sorry and saying I apologise mean the same thing, unless you are at a funeral. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
