Please don’t suck
But changing the title to a stupid names seems to indicate it might. And I still remember Starship Troopers. But someone is making a movie based on The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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March 4th, 2015 at 2:16 pm
What world leaders will the film makers use to make the image of the computer persona leading the rebellion?
A mix of Hillary, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Soros would scare the heck out of most viewers.
March 4th, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Hollywood is not very good with sci-fi. They turn them into cartoons or ’30s horse operas with spaceships and “blasters”. When they try for pathos, they mostly achieve bathos. Overall, it’s Hollywood’s worst genre.
March 4th, 2015 at 3:23 pm
This will absolutely suck. I hope they keep the stupid name so as not to sully the fine book – as they did to Starship Troopers.
March 4th, 2015 at 4:29 pm
It’s funny that you guys keep expecting people to sell literate movies to illiterate Americans. Just take some solace that they even tried.
March 4th, 2015 at 6:45 pm
Let me guess. The new outline will be The Moon is Limp Wristed Lesbian Transvestite Progressive Prince/Princess depending on how he/she/it feels today…
March 4th, 2015 at 7:12 pm
I read one TMIAHM script done by a supposedly pro screenwriter. By the time I got to page three I was already thinking “If I went to see this, they’d arrest me for attempting to burn down the theater and all copies of the movie…”
March 4th, 2015 at 7:40 pm
Apparently Tim Minear of Firefly fame attempted a script once upon a time: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7Sfv2Bq7xzhektwNl9oQXJPR2M/edit
March 4th, 2015 at 8:20 pm
My guess is with the four protagonists being a black male amputee, a hot white chick, a Latino intellectual and a computer AI, it won’t be diverse enough for Hollywood .
March 5th, 2015 at 2:53 am
There is at least a possibility that this will not suck. I don’t know a lot about Singer himself, but his X-Men films gave me the feeling that he liked the source material, loved what he was doing, and was comfortable with the idea of portraying the government as a potential threat.
This is completely different from where Verhoven was coming from in making the adaptation that shall not be named. I actually read Starship Troopers (and loved it) after seeing the movie undeserving of its name and being annoyed. I noticed several parts of the book that had been translated to film in such a way as to invert them.
The example that sticks in my mind the most is the amputee who signs the main character and his friend up with the military. In the book, the revelation of his disability is to remind them what they may suffer and force them to seriously consider the decision they’re making. In the film, it is a creepy scene trying to indict the military industrial complex. The change isn’t as much in the dialogue as the way the scene is set and how it is delivered.
Each of these scenes gave me the impression that Verhoven hated Heinlen, his principles, and his book, and that the film was an intentional attempt to crap on the earlier work and smear its reputation. As long as this isn’t Singer’s motive, I doubt it’ll suck as bad as the hack job which shall not be named.
Singer may change a lot to make his adaptation, but hopefully it will keep enough of the ethos and be a decent film, even though the book will remain better.
March 5th, 2015 at 8:28 am
I didn’t notice Singer was involved. Yeah, I can see how he would love the idea of marrying his first wife’s 16-year old granddaughter.