indeed. one of my greatest pleasures is seeing a well written and well acted movie with fresh new faces. I love Jamie Fox in "Ray", but the greatest pleasure was the young actress who played his mother. it was so cool not to have Regina King, Angela Bassett, etc. Fine actresses indeed, but the suspending of disbelief is easier when you don't know the actor so well. It's why it's fun to see films made in other countries, including the rare African films that we get here in America. Seeing a movie with people i've never even seen, let alone heard of, from another country? that is fun. I was watching "Devil in a Blue Dress" a couple of weeks ago, and i kept thinking it would have been better with another actor besides Denzel Washington. He was good, of course, but i couldn never forget it was him playing the role. Don Cheadle as Mouse was cool because I'd only seen Cheadle on "Picket Fences" at that time, so he was basically an unknown to me. Of course, even with another actor as the star, the changed plot still jacked up the movie...
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I like Will, but think they need to expand beyond Smith, Freeman, Washington and Jackson when it comes to casting African American leads Martin wrote: > > I could see Will in that. But it wouldn't get Keith his love story. > > ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:ravenadal%40yahoo.com>> wrote: > "Childhood's End" is the Arthur C. Clarke book I would like to see > made into a movie. Best yet: it could star Will Smith as Jan > Rodricks, a brilliant young black man with a strong interest in > astronomy and space exploration (brother of Maia Rodricks, the most > beautiful woman in the world). Jan represents humanity's inability > to ever be satisfied, to ever be truly content, or have its curiosity > sated. It is admirable that Jan rejects the blandness and boredom of > utopia in favor of taking risks (i.e., sneaking onto the Overlords' > ship). It seems likely that there would be many more men and women > like Jan in a world such as the Overlords'. Satisfaction in life, no > matter how good, has never been one of humanity's strong suits. Jan > is a symbol of that truth, and it is fitting that he is the last > witness to the destruction and transfiguration of mankind. > > ~rave! > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly > Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We were just talking about this last week... > > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=46413 > <http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=46413> > > > > Freeman's Rama Close To Reality? > > > > Morgan Freeman told SCI FI Wire that his long-held dream of > producing > > and starring in a big-screen adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's SF > novel > > Rendezvous With Rama is closer than ever to becoming a reality. > > > > "That is going to happen," Freeman said in an interview while > promoting > > his latest film, The Bucket List. "Thank heaven, that is going to > > happen. We're looking for that to start in the next year." > > > > Rendezvous with Rama, which was published in 1972, follows a group > of > > human explorers who intercept and try to unlock the secrets of an > alien > > spaceship that has approached Earth. Freeman would play the > commander of > > the Endeavor, the deep-space maintenance ship used to rendezvous > with > > the alien craft. > > > > "The story itself is the idea that we can be visited from outer > space," > > Freeman said. "The idea that we're the only living intelligent > creatures > > is ... you can't really believe that. Well, you can, but if you > think > > about it for a while, what if there are other intelligent creatures- > -and > > I firmly believe there are--what does that tell us? We're going to > > imagine that they're going to have to look something like us, and > if > > they don't look like us what does that tell us about God?" > > > > Freeman has had Rendezvous With Rama on his radar for nearly a > decade, > > but this is the closest it's been to happening. It's listed not > only as > > "announced" on the Internet Movie Database, but it's also on the > Web > > site of Freeman's production company, Revelations Entertainment, > which > > classifies it as "in development." > > > > "We have been in close contact with Arthur C. Clarke," Freeman > said. "As > > a matter of fact, I went to Sri Lanka just to have a sit-down with > him. > > I'm very excited about this. When the people at [NASA's Jet > Propulsion > > Laboratory] learned that we had this project we got calls from > them. > > 'Any help you need, any help at all. ... '" > > > > Freeman added: "So we've been trying to develop a script. It's a > very > > large project. You have got to develop the script, and you have got > to > > design spaceships. And because Arthur C. Clarke wrote it, and > because > > it's so much real science involved, we can't take too many > liberties." > > --Ian Spelling > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will > get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man > Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
