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The Forever War - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 03-27-2009
Excited? Appalled?
Ridley Scott is going to do a version of Forever War. He's always been a great visualist but he's always lacked the story chops. Maybe a great book will help? But he's looking to James Cameron for inspiration. I am very conflicted.
Quote:Ridley Scott, who is developing a film version of Joe Haldeman's seminal SF war novel The Forever War, told reporters in Britain that James Cameron's Avatar is inspiring him to shoot War in 3-D, according to SlashFilm.
"I'm filming a book by Joe Haldeman called Forever War," Scott reportedly said. "I've got a good writer doing it. I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3-D. It's going to be phenomenal."
First published in 1974, The Forever War chronicles the interstellar war between humanity and the enigmatic Tauran species.
Re: The Forever War - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 03-30-2009
I've heard about this one for a while. Could be really good, but when they say that it is based on a book and we have a good writer on it (obviously not author of said book) I worry.
This was one of the earliest writings on Vietnam by a 'Nam vet. No one in the mainstream press would publish anything 'Nam related at the time, so Joe went SciFi with a pretty nifty allegory. Will that come through in the movie? Still valid after all of this time, esp. now with our troops occupying foreign lands.
Body of Lies - Drunk Monk - 03-30-2009
Ridley Scott needs to go back to Aliens. BoL was so close, lots of nice details, decent performances (if you can believe DiCaprio as a Islamic spy) but in the end, remarkably unsatisfactory.