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Alien: Prequelification
ViolentDove:
--- Quote from: Jimor on 26 Apr 2010, 04:59 ---Among the myriad of projects Ridley Scott is involved with, I think I'm most curious how he's going to approach Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.
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Holy fuck, Ridley Scott is doing Forever War? Thanks for letting me know, that's one of my favourite books.
I could see it (hopefully) going down the route of something like a vietnam war movie in space, along the lines of what wolves said.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: scarred on 27 Apr 2010, 00:44 ---it's going to be the next Starship Troopers. similar to the source material in name only.
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That's going way too far even if it's meant partly in jest.
Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi baby was a special case. Scott might very well end up paring down the plot with a machete, but it's entirely possible he could meet the central themes of the book (future shock, being a cog in the machine) on their own terms even if the details are different. Maybe everyone won't be gay and fighting with medieval weapons by the end, but a spiritual successor is still fairly doable.
Plus, really, Paul Verhoeven. Dude is ballsy like whoa. He admitted straight out that he never finished the Starship Troopers novel and that what he did read made him bored and depressed. The man made Robocop. In retrospect, he could have made that movie no other way. The book promotes precisely the sort of gun-toting patriotic form of Americana that he seems to instinctively distrust.
scarred:
did i accidentally imply that i didn't like the starship troopers movie? that was not my intent. i love that movie.
but still:
--- Quote from: Alex C on 27 Apr 2010, 14:21 ---He admitted straight out that he never finished the Starship Troopers novel and that what he did read made him bored and depressed.
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i'm not sure i understand your defense. if he hated the source material, then he should have picked a different project. hell, the only reason he probably kept the name "starship troopers" was because of the heinlein association (aka: the $$). he could've released his movie under a different title and nobody would've noticed. the fact remains that starship troopers (the film) is extremely different both thematically and in plot compared to starship troopers (the book).
scarred:
Well, yeah. But it's my knee-jerk reaction to hearing the words Forever War and 3D blockbuster in the same sentence.
Alex C:
Gimme a second to organize my thoughts here. Sorry I deleted my earlier post.
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