As I write this I am watching the Australian movies made from Shane Maloney’s books about Murray Whelan. You may remember that those books were some of the big successes from my first Australian trip, and that I even mentioned the movies when I wrote that stuff up. Well, my usual online sources didn’t make [...]
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Why? Why would you try to take not just one, but two “highly complex” novels and try to make a film out of them?
Hyperion deals with a space war, with most of the action taking place on a planet named Hyperion, known not only for its electricity-spewing trees but also for the Time Tombs, large [...]
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That looks pretty good. I really hope that the inkblots move around dynamically after post-production, though.
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Why does Hollywood have to taint everything good?
I mean, if they’re going to screw up Radio Free Albemuth, and apparently VALIS as well, (both of which I am fairly sure are unfilmable without dramatically transforming the work, and not for the better), what is safe?
(Maybe I’m being cynical, although Dick’s history in Hollywood supports me. [...]
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