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Hold on a second! Just why does SJ have to lose weight?! WTF!!!!
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:59:56 -0000, "mattpierard_2000"
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> --- In [email protected], Steve M <lists@...> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think I've ever agreed with Ralph Dumain here before, but on
>> this I agree completely.
>>
>> None of Delany's books and stories are high-concept enough for
>> Hollywood. That is, there is no single plot you can summarize into
>> one sentence, like "super-strong androids want to be human and must
>> be stopped"--which gives you Blade Runner.
>>
>> And yet I admit I would be intrigued by an anime version of The Star
>> Pit, if it were done by the creators of Cowboy Bebop. And if David
>> Cronenberg wanted to direct "Triton," I'd be intrigued, because his
>> cinematic obsession with the problematic relationship between the
>> body, bodily integrity, the self, gender, and how our mapping to the
>> social roles we play is always imprecise, intersects nicely with the
>> concerns of the book, and he would resist the temptation (and studio
>> pressure) to turn Bron into a likable hero and give her a happy
>> ending.
>>
>> But more likely an option to film one of Delany's books would be
>> picked up by a hack like Brett Ratner or Soderburgh, or someone
>> totally unable to connect with the intricate and important ways that
>> intelligence, talent, race, gender, class and sexuality play through
>> all of Delany's novels (e.g., Spielberg or Carpenter). It is only by
>> directly addressing that specificity that you can get to the
>> universal.
>>
>> Long before anyone even tries to make any film version of Delany, I
>> suspect someone in Hollywood will discover Octavia Butler, and we'll
>> see first "Fledgling", then the Parable Books (with some other title)
>> and then Clay's Ark, and then the Lilith's Brood series, all much
>> more translatable into Hollywood terms than anything in Delany's
>> canon.
>>
>
> Re: "None of Delany's books and stories are high-concept enough for
> Hollywood. That is, there is no single plot you can summarize into
> one sentence, like "super-strong androids want to be human and must
> be stopped"--which gives you Blade Runner."
>
> I disagree. A Towers Trilogy miniseries could be very easy to sell,
> particularly since it has plenty of youth appeal. Clea and Alter
> could be played perhaps by Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johanson (if SJ
> would lose ten pounds and tone up her bod a bit); the boy hero
> (forgive me, can't remember his name)'s "army experiences" -- so very
> ahead of their time, one of Delany's master strokes -- would probably
> make a great parable to current conditions in Iraq, particularly in
> light of flicks like "Jacob's Ladder", "Jarhead", the remake of
> "Manchurian Candidate".
>
> In fact, all of Delany's 60's output would make for wonderful (and
> quality) entertainment for young people interested in sf, especially
> young women because there are so many strong female characters -- such
> as in The Jewels of Aptor, Corona, & Babel-17. It wasn't until
> Dhalgren that he started writing for a more problematic-for-Hollywood
> mature audience.
>
>
>
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