Re: Singer to Adapt Heinlein

Heinlein co-scripted DESTINATION MOON , which helped launch the SF film craze in the '50s and was pretty decent, as well as PROJECT MOONBASE, originally intended as the pilot of a TV series based on Heinlein stories that never sold, which wasn't (though it does predict a female American president).  The film THE BRAIN EATERS ripped off his novel The Puppet Masters, and there was an official PUPPET MASTERS adaptation that failed to match the quality of the novel.  The MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION did an excellent adaptation of "Jerry Is a Man," which is available as part of that brief series.  There were many attempts to adapt Stranger in a Strange Land, but none of them ever came to fruition.  There is an animated version of the novel RED PLANET, which is based on the expurgated version that was originally published, but isn't too close to its source material. 


On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:31 PM, Barry Haworth <[email protected]> wrote:
  


Interesting premise. 
I'm trying to think - what is the strike rate for films based on Heinlein? I enjoyed Predestination (based on the short story All You Zombies), and Starship Troopers had it's points, though it didn't resemble the book a whole lot.  What other Heinlein adaptations have there been,  and are any of them any good? 
Barry 
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On 09/03/2015 11:29 PM, "Dennis Fischer" <[email protected]> wrote:

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>Bryan Singer to Direct Adaptation of Sci-Fi Classic ‘The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress’
>Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to the adaptation, to be titled “Uprising”
>Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the film rights to classic sci-fi novel “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” and Bryan Singer has come on board to direct the adaptation to be titled “Uprising,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
>The story follows a lunar colony that revolts against Earth’s rule. Robert A. Heinlein’s sci-fi novel was published in 1966 and won the Hugo Award the following year.
>“Arrow” executive producer Marc Guggenheim is penning the adaptation.
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>The rights had reverted back to the Heilein estate after previous adaptation attempts by DreamWorks and “Harry Potter” producer David Heymer never came to fruition.
>Singer is producing with Lloyd Braun of Whalerock Industries and Thor Halvorssen. Andrew Mittman and Jason Taylor are executive producing.