Brin: The Core

[Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro]

Was there any advance in the credit/lawsuit/whatever related to the
rip-off movie The Core? I was editing the Portuguese Wikipedia article
about it, and I would like to know if there is any hard data (references,
frex) about it.

The English Wikipedia article only mentions that it was ripped off (ripoffed?)
from Paul Creuss's book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core

  The Core is a science fiction disaster film loosely based on the novel
   Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to drill to the center
   of the Earth (...)

Alberto Monteiro

PS: about wikis, you mentioned in the (yikes!) blog the... 
http://www.galaxiki.org/
... however, I think there are some problems with this site:
- they ask users to _buy_ stars (wikis and .org are supposed to be freesites!)
- they don't pay too much attention to physics when randomly generating
star systems
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Re: Brin: The Core: list of ripoffs

[Alejandro Rivero]

Regarding Earth, I noticed last week that the trailer is formatted
according this book.

-THey start tellink of an undetectable weapon
-Then it is said that something failed.
-then they present a guy telling that he is going to computer-hack the
 Earth. This is not the context in the film, where the guy just manipulates
 internet.
-They finishs  by telling that the film is about Earth itself (I have
heard the spanish version, where the pronoum is herself).

At least it is an intriging idea: to plagiarize a different book for the
trailer, so the trailer does not give clues of the film. Nice.

Alejandro

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Re: Brin: The Core: list of ripoffs

[Medievalbk]

In a message dated 4/12/2003 9:50:40 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Time to read some Harlan Ellison?
  
  What in particular?  I read _An Edge In My Voice_ earlier this year
  

I was refering to non-fiction events of the making of Starlost and then 
Phoenix without Ashes.

Are there other Hollywood horror stories out there?

Those who do not study history may be condemned to pay
repetitive legal fees.

William Taylor
-
The screenwriter to Enemy Mine eats kiz.
Longyear repaired most of the damage in the novelization.
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RE: Brin: The Core: list of ripoffs

[Horn, John]

 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 I was refering to non-fiction events of the making of 
 Starlost and then 
 Phoenix without Ashes.
 
 Those who do not study history may be condemned to pay
 repetitive legal fees.

Not to mention The Terminator and Soldier...

 - jmh
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Brin: The Core - spoilers

[Gary L. Nunn]

RE: BRIN: Re: a call to the irregulars!
 No mention of using earthquakes as weapons, for example.  I had had 
 an impression they were going down to look for something that had 
 fallen.  Instead, they are apparently trying to re-start the Earth's 
 dynamo with a nuke.  yeep.


Well, actually they did mention using seismic activity as a weapon. The
basis of the movie was that this weapon caused the outer core of the
Earth to stop spinning.

This movie did a pretty good job of destroying any real scientific
plausibility. The first hour was not bad and the special effects of that
first hour were great. The shuttle landing/crash was awesome.

But once they launched into the earths crust, the movie was pretty much
down hill from there (pun intended).

wait until this one hoes to the dollar theater.

Gary




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