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New Movie Celebrates Galactic In-Breeding

The quest for classic scifi texts to bring to the big screen may finally have gone too far. Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures are negotiating for the rights to film E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen novels, which are so dated that any adaptation will be either unrecognizable or unwatchable. And yet the series helped launch the whole genre of space opera, so it's easy to understand the temptation. Click through for the awful details. More »

8:20 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By charliejane
1,803 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: SO, if LENSMEN gets made, does that mean we mightget to see a production of Fafrid and the Grey MOuser?? more »