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Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood?
Doug writes "Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is being made into a movie! I first saw it at this interesting article about Pixar. And sure enough, there is a website set up for the movie! Staring Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary. Its about a huge several kilometer long space craft passing near Earth, visited by humans who are taken across the universe. The trilogy was awesome, and I hope the movie is on par with Clarke's 2001!"
Rama will be ground breaking and possibly even record breaking in its digital effects. That is why we're taling to "all the usual suspects" for special effects bids. We are also in serious negotations with Intel to become a major technology partner in the making of Rama."
More info can be found here.
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OMG! This is my favorite SF book! I've read it many times and still every time I really enjoy reading it. There are some very spectacular scenes that can be done very well screen. I hope they do a good job of it.
If you haven't read it yet, do so.
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Costyn.
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...they don't film the last three books.
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Director: David Fincher
Starring: Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman owns the rights to this book, and has been keen to do it for a number of years. He's the one who approached Fincher about doing it. And scuttlebutt is that Moebius is doing the conceptual art.
Lots of info can be found here
See Corona Coming Attractions for Rendevous with Rama for more details (*cough*rumours*cough*).
The sequence of slides shows what roughly look like the Octopods, so it seems this movie will span several of the books.
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The first book is the best IMHO, but is mainly hard sci-fi, and would make a movie that would probably please geeks, but definitely not the general public. Though the plots are vastly different, a movie made of the first book would remind me of the movie Andromeda Strain. In this movie, lots of cool science is done (in a cool high-tech secret lab). But I bet most people not interested in science thought the movie was mostly boring. I envision a movie based on the first book only to be like this.
Going into parts of books 2,3,4, then adding some fantasy flightsy kind of stuff, it'll he more in line for an actual movie plot that Joe Public would be used to and possibly enjoy.
BTW, you should read RWR regardless of this movie. It's a pleasant read, and goes quite quickly. In fact, it's one of the two books that I've read in a single day (the other being the first book of Hitchiker's Guide).
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Rama
Rama II (Rendezous with Rama I think)
Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed.
I think that's the order...
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BTW, this article is a Dupe from Jan. 16, 2001 Perhaps it just doesn't have much priority on the rendering farm. I think it'll make for a very dull movie, though the graphics will make for some extraordinary eye candy.
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I totally agree. I've read the rama books, and while the first book was great, the rest were terrible.
Rendezvous With Rama was a great book.
The sequels sucked so bad, I can't tell you how bad.
-kgj
Actually Clarke's novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on the movie screenplay (which was in turn inspired by one of Clarke's short stories The Sentinel). It's the only example I can think of where a significant novel resulted from a film rather than the other way round.
Quite right -- my Dune comparison was off-target.
The original Rama was excellent, the sequels sucked horribly.
The original Dune was excellent, the sequels didn't all suck horribly. Come to think of it, the second was the worst of the lot. (Pressure on Herbert to publish in haste?)
Nonetheless, the original Dune stirred me in a way the sequels didn't.
-kgj