'Rendezvous With Rama' - The Movie

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.

What about Ringworld

Rama was incredibly cool and mind-opening when I first read it. It could be a cool movie, but I think a lot of it was trying to imagine what it would look like. Moving to the screen means instead of my view I will see someone else's view. I hope it is good.

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

Other interesting tidbits concerning Jean Giraud: Has worked on Fifth Element, Willow and (gah!) The Masters of the Universe movie. He is also an uncredited contributor to Blade Runner. ( see His Bio [imdb.com] )

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...

Well, if they'd thought about it, they would have put up three mirrors.


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You believe in doing things the hard way, eh?

If you would like to experience what rendevous with rama is like and dont feel like going out and buying a book. I suggest you do a search for a commodore 64 emulator and try to find the game on the net.

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?

Moebius? I'd hate to see how long this movie is going to be...

Hey, I think I just saw that part... Only in mirror image!

Dancin Santa

This is obviously a made up rumor

I mean, c'mon, you expect me to believe that the same guy directed both Fight Club and Alien 3?

Moebius is perfect for this

Moebius is an artist who pioneered French comics in the 1970s and early 1980s, with his involvement with the magazine Metal Hurlant. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because an American version of the magazine concept was launched later, called Heavy Metal, and it reprinted a lot of translations of Moebius's comics.

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.