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Alexis
04/07/09

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Did anyone check out the 2007 Black List? Really, really interesting read. Like a solid third have been made/are in production now.
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4ndreVV
04/07/09

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on a vector, this discussion reminded me of the beautiful short film by michael radford "addicted to the stars"

and i'm with voloxnomad on hesitating to consider the fabric of the rampant and often rabbid anti-Keanury...
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volvoxnomad
04/07/09

@4ndreVV: thank you for sharing this link! awesome awesome little story!
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Grey_Area
04/07/09

@volvoxnomad: I enjoyed it as well. Thanks, 4ndreVV!
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bonniegrrl
04/07/09

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Still waiting not so patiently for another "Constantine" movie. HINT HINT
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Grey_Area
04/07/09

@bonniegrrl: Ewww. Really?
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BullfightsOnAcid
04/07/09

In reply to Keanu Reeves Is A Passenger In Cosmic Love Story
It's 'The Lake House'... in space!

or A Walk in the Clouds of the Orion Nebula.
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Slatz_Grobnik
04/07/09

In reply to Keanu Reeves Is A Passenger In Cosmic Love Story
Zoinks! It's been done before! Quick, to the original idea box! Destroy any abomination that has uses anything else! Renew!
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rudi_freude
04/07/09

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Would it be heresy for me to say that I wouldn't mind Keanu taking a stab at being Spike Spiegel? He sure has the looks and the build for the character.
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ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
04/07/09

@rudi_freude: Yes.
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Cicada
04/07/09

@rudi_freude: Yeah, he has the right build/looks. He's also pushing 50, with the wrinkles to prove it. Spike is in his mid-late 20s, no?
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/07/09

@rudi_freude: Yes. He's too old and boring.
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psthmn
04/07/09

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Keep the well-done zombie out of it and I'm interested.

If someone woke me up early from cryogenic sleep because he/she is lonely, I would bash their stupid head in, not sexing them.
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Grey_Area
04/07/09

@psthmn: "Uhh, yeah...your cryo unit, uh...musta , y'know, broke down too. umm...Wanna make out?"
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/07/09

@psthmn: Same here. And what if he woke up a woman who not only has reason to hate him, but also prefers the ladies? (maybe not a problem on a colony ship)
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Xenocidal Maniac
04/07/09

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How about this for a plot hole: What's he going to eat, drink, and breathe? If the ship is designed to travel through interstellar space while everyone is in hibernation, surely it won't be packed with enough provisions for this man and woman to live an entire lifetime.
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Alasdair Wilkins
04/07/09

@Xenocidal Maniac: True, but you'd think they'd have some sort of supplies/food-making technology for when they arrive at the planet. Not the hardest thing in the world to explain. The air is a little trickier though, I'll admit.
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MercySeagull
04/07/09

All that is covered in the script. The passengers were to be awakened two months before landing, where they would enjoy the luxuries of the spaceship before their new life on the planet. As such, the ship was stocked full with provisions for 500 people for two months, which would equate to enough for a single person to survive on for 83 years or more.
The script: http://www.whoaisnotme.net/scripts/PSG_xx_UD.pdf
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/07/09

@MercySeagull: Convenient, but a stupid waste of resources.
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Joe Meils
04/07/09

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It's almost a science fiction cliche... We've seen this basic plot how many times in comic books, and on the Twilight Zone, and so on? Might be interesting to ask the folks reading this news story how many examples they can think of...

They could just as easily make a movie about an astronaut returning from a relatavistic flight, to find the world incomprehensible, and his girlfriend in her 80's...

Or maybe a movie about a space ark that has suffered some sort of accident, and everyone has forgotten that they are on a spaceship, until one day our hero discovers...

Or maybe the bomb drops, and only two people are left... one named Adam, and one named Eve...

Honest to god, folks, is this ALL it takes to be a screenwriter these days? Either screw up a revered classic, or swipe a storyline from a 1930's pulp magazine?
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Alasdair Wilkins
04/07/09

@Joe Meils: Dude, you're totally giving away my brilliant plan to become a rich and famous screenwriter.
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brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
04/07/09

@Joe Meils: Gene Wolfe's four book series, The Book of the Long Sun, is set on a generational ark ship where the people do not know they are on an ark ship and their technology is beginning to fail and there are no people to fix it. It's is an amazing set of books that I have read three times now. Before it is the loosely connected Book of the New Sun series of five books and after is the trilogy The Book of the Short Sun, which is centered around ark survivors who have settled on their destination planet. They are all superlative.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/07/09

@brentbent: Kind of like Aldiss', and Heinlein's before that (although they both managed to wrap it up in one book).
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