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a screenwriter for the film speaks


didn't see this linked anywhere, really an interesting look into Hollywood and its attitudes with adapting a novel

http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/rossio.html

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EXCELLENT FIND! Thank you!

It's TRULY amazing what gets made and what gets ruined in Hollywood...

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Yes, a fine link, thanks!!!

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After reading that and looking at Orme's filmography, which is almost all TV, not big screen, I think we know where the fault lies. Not with him, he was doing what he does--but with the idiot who hired him to produce this movie.

It really needed a Ridley Scott.

The trouble with Heinlein as movie material is that his writing fits together into a more or less coherent whole--to get it _right_ a studio needs to commit to filming just about everthing he wrote using the same creative team so that it remains of a piece. And that's not gonna happen.

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Wow, that was interesting. Thanks.

And all my dreams, torn asunder...
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