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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. Yeah right... by metlin · · Score: 2, Troll

    Next everyone will go around raving what a wonderful work the Rama Series is, without having read a single line of the book.

    Just like the way they killed LoTR. Atleast hope that like in LoTR, they mention that the movie has been inspired from the book, rather than an adaptation.

    As one of my friends once said, there's just about one person who can make movies out of Clarke's books just the way they are meant to be, and that is Kubrick*.

    *For those of you who do not know, Kubrick did the 2001 - A Space Odessey.

    1. Re:Yeah right... by march · · Score: 0, Troll

      there's just about one person who can make movies out of Clarke's books just the way they are meant to be, and that is Kubrick

      Tell that to Clark. IIRC, towards the end of 2001, Kubrick and Clark disagreed with the direction of the movie and Clark threw his hands up and Kubrick went off in a different direction (although, it wasn't that nice of an exchange from what I remember).

      It was still an excellent movie, Clark wrote a great book and Kubrick did a great job, but it just wasn't all rosey.

    2. Re:Yeah right... by IpalindromeI · · Score: 0, Troll

      How exactly did they "kill" LOTR?

      I guess you haven't read the books, have you? The first movie was pretty good, but the second movie took way too many liberties. Half of the scenes were completely changed (which disfigured many of the characters), and a couple of the scenes weren't even in the book at all. I realize that movie's can rarely if ever be a direct dramatization of the book, but this is a separate issue. By changing so many aspects of the story and characters, it effectively ruins the LOTR story. It becomes some other story, which may be similar and good in its own right, but it isn't LOTR anymore. In a sense, killing it.

      Apart from whether or not the movie was a good adaption of the book, I think the second movie sucked simply as a movie. It was so disjointed and jumpy. Moving between the different character groups every five minutes made me feel like I couldn't catch my breath, in a bad way. <SPOILER>It makes me wonder how they'll do the third installment since the ring gets destroyed two-thirds of the way through. I'm betting that they end it just after the ring gets destroyed, to save their precious Hollywood ending.</SPOILER>

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  2. Garden of Rama by oniony · · Score: 0, Troll
    Actually, Rendezvous was amazing, the next two were very poor and added nothing new to the experience, apart from the emotions of a set of astronauts. Garden of Rama, however, was as fantastic (well, almost) as the first book. It rekindled the spark that somehow went amiss after Rendezvous.

    I think they should make Rendezvous into a movie, and merge the ideas of the next three books into a sequel.

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