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.
@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)
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.
@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.
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
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?
@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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and i'm with voloxnomad on hesitating to consider the fabric of the rampant and often rabbid anti-Keanury...
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or A Walk in the Clouds of the Orion Nebula.
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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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The script: http://www.whoaisnotme.net/scripts/PSG_xx_UD.pdf
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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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