The Forever War

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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.

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.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

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.

[Drunk Monk]

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.