Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:51:56 -0400
From: "Eva Whitley" <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Science Fiction Double Feature"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

(The formatting has made the quoting on this all foobar so I'm
deleting it. I assume folks keep their emails.)

OK, I'll swap out ENEMY MINE in favor of DAMNATION ALLEY (based on a
Zelazny story).

SERENITY was a book before it was a TV series? Who wrote it?

One movie in favor of my point: the 1984 version of DUNE, not only a
bad movie, but also whose very mention causes old WSFAns to wince.

I've often thought it would be useful for someone to do a reprint
anthology of novellas that are light on special effects, but very
visual and title it something like "NEEDS TO BE A MAJOR MOTION
PICTURE." Hollywood producers are nothing if not lazy and plodding
(yes, even Trevor Macy) which is why they are suddenly hot for turning
comics into film. It's already story-boarded, and the visuals are
already mapped out, and by artists.

Just understand: I'm not happy about good books turning into bad
movies. For personal reasons, I'd like a giant coconut to hit George
Lucas on the head so he'd wake up and say, "The only good STAR WARS
movie I did was largely done by Leigh Brackett, who was a great
science fiction author. Why don't I get cracking reading books by good
science fiction authors and see if I can make a decent movie again!"

Instead we get I, ROBOT and THE BICENTENNIAL MAN.
--
Eva Whitley   www.evawhitley.net

We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every
single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some
action to help stop this war. Raise hell.

Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our
troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there.

11 Jan. 2007, Molly Ivins' last column. RIP