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'Rendezvous With Rama' - The Movie
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Hemos
on Tue Jan 16, 2001 08:45 PM
from the interesting-idea dept.
from the interesting-idea dept.
DesignMerc writes: "2003 is the posted release date for the movie version of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. It's being produced by Revelations Entertainment with David Fincher directing (Fight Club, Seven, Alien 3) and Morgan Freeman as part of the cast. There are production sketches at their Web site." Nothing too meaty here yet - mostly concept art.
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What about Ringworld (Score:3)
On the other hand why has no one yet made a movie of Ringworld? Rama was the most complicated thing I could imaging until my concepts and mind were blown by Ringworld (Actual I read book #2 first - Ringworld Engineers).
I heard once that there was a plan to make it into a movie back in the early 80's but it would require so much CGI (Like 2/3's of the movie) but at the time, the technology was not there, and the cost was too high.
But now, the CGI part could probably be done in someone's home. The main cost would now be the normal filming parts.
Re:Moebius is perfect for this (Score:3)
Close collaborator with Alejandro Jodorowsky, they were the original team that were hired to produce the Dune movie instead of David Lynch. Jodorowsky is one of France's more "exotic" author, known for his work in disturbing movies and phenomenal comic book writing. Jean Giraud has also done work with Marvel Comics on some Silver Surfer albums/issues.
If any of you is interested in comic books as art, you will be fascinated with Giraud's portofolio. Go visit this site [lambiek.net]
Re:Wow... (Score:3)
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You believe in doing things the hard way, eh? (Score:3)
That would be oooooh so much easier than, say, finding the book at half.com or even gasp your local meatspace used book store or even shudder library.
Actually, like all of Clarke's books (the ones really written by him, I mean, as opposed to the ones ghostwritten for him like all the Rama sequels) Rendezvous is very fast paced, almost clipped, with minimal characterization and each short chapter punctuated with a Clarkeian "twist." If a gamer would enjoy any book of such a length at all, this would be the one.
They got whom? (Score:3)
Hey, I think I just saw that part... Only in mirror image!
Dancin Santa
This is obviously a made up rumor (Score:4)
Moebius is perfect for this (Score:5)
Born Jean Giraud, he is most famous in Europe for his Western character, Blueberry, whose exploits Giraud signs with his given name. Blueberry still appears in various ongoing series of graphic novels.
In the US, however, Giraud is most widely-known by the pseudonym Moebius. He is the author of many popular comics stories in the science fiction genre, including the Arzach series, as well as The Airtight Garage, which was used as the inspiration for the video arcade in San Francisco's Sony Metreon entertainment center.
Moebius has also done production design work on some science fiction films, including Alien, Tron, and The Abyss. The latter was a rotten movie, but it had a visually interesting version of what alien spacecraft and technology might look like. Should work well for Rama.
See? You can learn something new every day.