Ridley Scott to direct "The Forever War"
If anyone can pull it off, it'd have to be Mr. Scott, (or possibly David Lynch), but I'm still very, very skeptical that anyone can do it justice. Joe Haldeman is one of the most "hardcore" of the 70s sci-fi authors, and Forever War is his masterpiece. The book is based upon two premises: the dehumanizing effect of high-tech warfare and the impact it has on a culture and the returning soldiers.
The book also contains what is generally accepted as the most plausible means for spaceships to engage in combat, (if it could happen at all, which is highly unlikley), and it is quite physics-intensive. If the script writers translate it literally to the screen, you'll see people's heads exploding all over the theater when the cast start using terms like "delta-V increment" and "relativistic compensation algorithms." And since all the humans in the story are unconscious and locked in capsules full of mush while the actual engagement is occurring... Well, you get the idea.
It is a very deep novel, stemming from Haldeman's experiences in Vietnam, and it ends with a profound implication. David Lynch once pulled off a hardcore sci-fi film translation with Dune, but it was a theatrical flop since the average movie-goer couldn't get his little pea brain around the core concepts. I'm afraid Forever War may suffer the same fate -- or worse. After wincing through the disaster that Hollywood made of Sagan's Contact, you'll pardon me if I'm rather dubious of any further dabbling in that realm by the greed-driven troglodytes who run modern production studios.
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Oh, Scott is also directing an Alien prequel. Whatever. I'm sure that'll be a committee attempt at building a milk cow, so I lost interest as soon as I read it.
The book also contains what is generally accepted as the most plausible means for spaceships to engage in combat, (if it could happen at all, which is highly unlikley), and it is quite physics-intensive. If the script writers translate it literally to the screen, you'll see people's heads exploding all over the theater when the cast start using terms like "delta-V increment" and "relativistic compensation algorithms." And since all the humans in the story are unconscious and locked in capsules full of mush while the actual engagement is occurring... Well, you get the idea.
It is a very deep novel, stemming from Haldeman's experiences in Vietnam, and it ends with a profound implication. David Lynch once pulled off a hardcore sci-fi film translation with Dune, but it was a theatrical flop since the average movie-goer couldn't get his little pea brain around the core concepts. I'm afraid Forever War may suffer the same fate -- or worse. After wincing through the disaster that Hollywood made of Sagan's Contact, you'll pardon me if I'm rather dubious of any further dabbling in that realm by the greed-driven troglodytes who run modern production studios.
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Oh, Scott is also directing an Alien prequel. Whatever. I'm sure that'll be a committee attempt at building a milk cow, so I lost interest as soon as I read it.
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