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Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama going Hollywood?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-that-be-nice dept.

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!"

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  1. Ok, reality check... by march · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The trilogy was awesome, and I hope the movie is on par with Clarke's 2001!"

    First of all, I, too thought the trilogy was good. But, as with most trilogies, it got worse as it went on. And, as with _2001: The Movie_, it paled in comparison to the book, especially when Kubrik and Clark started to disagree towards the end.

    I am hoping that this will be a great movie, just like I am hoping that the Matrix II will be great. I can only keep my fingers crossed and my hopes not too high to minimize the disappointment.

    1. Re:Ok, reality check... by actor_au · · Score: 4, Interesting
      ..especially when Kubrik and Clark started to disagree towards the end.

      The reality was that Clark wanted it on one of Saturns moons(for the life of me I can't remember which one) because it had the unique trait of being brighter when seen from differant sides of Saturn and having an unexplainable black dot in the very center of it or something which was meant to be TMA-2(forgive me please for every error in that sentence I haven't read the book in a very long time) Kubrick wanted it on Jupiter because making Saturn out of models and making it look real(non-tacky) would have been very expensive and couldn't have worked anyway and that a floating TMA-2 would have been more visually impressive against the backdrop of Jupiter.

      It wasn't so much a disagreement, the two were good friends based on most accounts, as an understanding that the two mediums would have to be differant to portray the vision that they each had.

      The follow-up books(2010, 2061 and 3001) were pretty good although the 2010 movie wasn't as good as it could have been (the Russians wern't as human as the books made them out to be, instead portrayed as near robots, curse you cold war, curse you).

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  2. Sounds like a mix of R with R and Rama II by wass · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Hmmm, sounds like they are mixing Rendezvous with Rama and Rama II. Potential Spoiler but nothing you won't see on the back of the flap.

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    In the first book, astronauts visit Rama, but are only taken several AU through the solar system. They explore the ship, but must leave Rama before it's course takes them straight through the sun (IIRC).

    In Rama II, then Rama returns to Earth, this time taking some humans with it on an interstellar journey that spans the next 3 books (which degrade in quality in each subsequent book).

    So, if the astronauts are really taken across the universe, as the poster has suggested, it sounds like this movie will be a mix of several of the Rama books (or at least with many more creative liberties).

    Or some purist will say that a trip of only a few AU within the solar system is still technically a trip around the universe.

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  3. From http://www.hsx.com by sbillard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From Hollywood Stock Exchange

    Rendezvous with Rama
    Symbol: RRAMA
    Status: Active
    Genre: Sci-Fi
    Phase: Development
    Price: H$23.04 Change: 0 Volume: 1,801,012
    Gross: $0

    Based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama is the story of a gigantic alien spaceship named Rama which entered our Solar System in the 22nd Century. No one knows where this mysterious craft came from. Earth decides to send out an exploration team to the advancing vessel to determine its intentions. Once onboard the spaceship, which is in the shape of an immense cylindrical tube, the explorers observe a self-contained world, less one thing-living beings. It seems to be abandoned-or so they think. Director David Fincher and Morgan Freeman are attached to the project.

    HSX is a play-money stock exchange of prospective movie projects set up like NYSE stocks. They also offer mutual funds of varios portfolios, (star) bonds if you want to invest in "J Lo" or Rodney Dangrefield or Tom Berringer. Long, Short, Buy, Cover. Options too. It's focus is the movie industry. There is another "market" for the music industry. I know we all dislike the MPAA and RIAA for their shortsighted efforts at futile legilation, but this site is fun to kick around once a day - or week - or whatever.

    BTW - I'm invested in a Phillip K. Dick story.
    Again from: Hollywood Stock Exchange

    Paycheck is a thriller based on a story by Philip K. Dick. After an engineer agrees to have his memory erased after working on a top-secret project, he decides to stick around and piece together the mystery. John Woo directs the film scripted by Stuart Hazeldine and Dean Georgaris

    I'm not completely sure the name of the story is indeed "Paycheck". I've only read a handuful of Dick's work and some short stories, but some movies based on his stuff make up at least 2 of my all-time top ten favs: "Bladerunner" and "Total Recall".