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We know Ridley Scott's plate is full what with the Alien prequel movies, a Monopoly film, Huxley's Brave New World, and a Youtube flick. But his choice of writer just pushed his Forever War to the top of our list. More »
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Ridley Scott's movie of Joe Haldeman's Forever War will be a 3-D epic, in the wake of James Cameron's groundbreaking work on Avatar, Scott told a London convention. And it'll have less KY-jelly than Alien. More »
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So it appears that Ridley Scott is intent on getting his hands on all the greatest science fiction novels and turning them into blockbusters, which sounds fine to me. Last week, we reported Scott was determined to bring the complex novel Brave New World to the big screen. Now the trades are reporting that Scott is adding The Forever War to his scifi to-do list. In fact, he's been trying to get the rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel for 25 years. One thing's for certain: we really need to add Scott to our book club. More »
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Welcome back to Development Purgatory, where we check on the status of movies that were announced with great fanfare — but never arrived. This time, we wonder why we're not sucking on futuristic drug feathers while watching a movie of Jeff Noon's Vurt. We also check on the movies of William Gibson's Count Zero, Dan Simmons' Hyperion, plus the long-promised Forever War miniseries. More »
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