movies ruin books is a common sentiment that i don't necessarily believe in: perhpas it's really just a matter of generational translation... and i DO believe that a good movie based on a good book will make more people *read the book* - hell even a bad movie may make more people read the book. so on the basic level, i think a movie is just a big ad for the book, and all ads suck by default.
yet gattaca was awesome IMO - so if there's any existing team that could do it gracefully, it's them.
IMO scanner darkly IS perhaps the most audience-friendly movie, single punchline, cute girl stealing coca cola, basically it's non-action, drama, and it is less n-dimensional than pkd's other stuff (valis for instance) so lends itself well to tasteful adaptation. IE don't need special effects, just good script & acting.
blade runner was awesome - but only had 3 scenes in common with book.
cunninham doing neuromancer... sigh. will never happen. and frankly i don't know if it should.
cheers
nano
it's been rumored for years that A Scanner Darkly has been in production - by the same team that did GATTACA.
i've been looking quite forward to it, but seems to have gone the way of chris cunningham doing Neuromancer... vaporware...
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wicked. i gotta know - did the hitachi still only have 3 MB ram in the script? i hope they didn't update that ;D
movies ruin books is a common sentiment that i don't necessarily believe in: perhpas it's really just a matter of generational translation... and i DO believe that a good movie based on a good book will make more people *read the book* - hell even a bad movie may make more people read the book. so on the basic level, i think a movie is just a big ad for the book, and all ads suck by default. yet gattaca was awesome IMO - so if there's any existing team that could do it gracefully, it's them. IMO scanner darkly IS perhaps the most audience-friendly movie, single punchline, cute girl stealing coca cola, basically it's non-action, drama, and it is less n-dimensional than pkd's other stuff (valis for instance) so lends itself well to tasteful adaptation. IE don't need special effects, just good script & acting. blade runner was awesome - but only had 3 scenes in common with book. cunninham doing neuromancer... sigh. will never happen. and frankly i don't know if it should. cheers nano
it's been rumored for years that A Scanner Darkly has been in production - by the same team that did GATTACA. i've been looking quite forward to it, but seems to have gone the way of chris cunningham doing Neuromancer... vaporware...