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Upcoming Film Based On Arthur C. Clarke Story

Posted by Zonk on from the should-have-taken-the-skyhook dept.

SoyChemist writes "The Wired Science blog has production stills and a story about a side project that several Industrial Light and Magic employees have been working on. They are producing the short story Maelstrom II as an independent film. The entire thing was shot in front of a bluescreen, so all of the sets and props will be CGI. The lone actor, Chuck Marra, plays a guy that hitches a ride on an electromagnetically launched freight capsule from the moon to earth. When the nuclear reactor that powers the catapult fails, he is thrown into space, but not far enough to escape lunar gravity — leading to an Apollo 13 style rescue mission. The original story was written by Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey."

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  1. Rendezvous with Rama by nacturation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm still waiting for Rendezvous with Rama to come out. They used to have some info up at the domain name, which is registered by Revelations Entertainment and was supposed to be sponsored by Intel. If the IMDB page is accurate, this might be coming out in a few years... but it's been simmering for about a decade so who knows how accurate that is.

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  2. Re:Great Quote for His Interview by ashitaka · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know why but my favorite Arthur C. Clarke novel would have to be Childhood's End.

    Childhood's End would be good but unfortunately the "huge ships settle over all major cities on earth" imagery has been stolen by Independence Day. And yes, a highly-evolved race saying "religion is a common primitive response in dual-parent species" would not go down too well in modern America. (Maybe that wasn't in Childhood's End)

    A more timely adaptation might be The Fountains of Paradise. Space Elevators, yes.

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  3. Re:Great Quote for His Interview by xtracto · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I prefer Mr. Isaac Asimov, his Robot short stories (some of them in the I, Robot book), his Foundation Trilogy and other books are the ones that made me an avid reader. Oh, and he invented (coined?) the term "Robotics".

    Oh and Asimov and Clarke used to play saying each that the other was a better Science Fiction writer.

    Of course, I believe Mr. Clarke is more popular.

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