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It seems in EVERY Michael Chrighton novel, a teaam of highly trained experts get an urgent call, but in the end it turns out the outcome would be the same if the characters went to bed. Seriously, _The Andromeda Strain_, _Sphere_, Jurassic Park, Chrighton characters never really accomplish anything.

There was one very cool, creepy viral add campaign for this miniseries, though, "What happened in Piedmont":

[www.whathappenedinpiedmont.com]

That's the only reason I'm psyched to see this. That, and the fact I've decided a mini series is the best medium for a sci fi book to be put on screen.

EdLincoln

Curiously enough, Crichton commented somewhere that the point of the novel and the first movie is that Andromeda mutates into a harmless form without human intervention, and the scientists make mistake upon mistake up to the point of them nearly blowing the base up and turning Andromeda into a monster.

Knocking Science out off its pedestal seems to be Crichton's recurring theme, not just as an excuse for thrilling adventure but as a conscientious posture: scientists are humans and just as reliable as anybody else, their mistakes quite amplifiable by their jobs' nature, he seems to mean. Sphere, The Terminal Man and others are about that. He explained Sphere as how wrong it is to put psichologically untrained scientists in charge of a first contact scenario.

He's an interesting guy: I read some lecture of him about how scientists don't do enough of a Sagan and make science more attractive to the mainstream, and some letter of his demanding that climate science change research and manifestos are as thoroughly scientific process-checked as other things are (independently of how most data seems to point out things, it is true there have been some real rigorousness failures, and you can't allow yourself that if your data is involved in some megazillion bucks-costly political decisions).

fistrodisco

another great film gets the MTV treatment.

Cantonkid

foolish-rain

I want to think this will be good, but really? An A&E Television Event? Hmm.

phoenix

Cacafuego

Another "intelligent virus" movie--ARRRRGGGHHH.

foolish-rain

@AZTriGuy: Good to know I'm not the only one!

cljohnston108

selfhatingotaku

lebaneseblond

A&E? seriously? you couldn't sell it to any other network could you, Scott?

groonk

I agree, this movie looks like it has to much action and scares with not enough suspense. Can't someone ressurect Alfred Hitchcock?!? For the love of all that is film!

jp182

Sturm Truppen

Charlie Jane Anders

Tim Faulkner

Tim Faulkner

Neither can be perfect, but I'm willing to wait and see how they handle it instead of writing off in advance just because of a hyperactive promo clip.

MonkeyT

Emilia

How...."original".

Sir Winston Thriller

Tim Faulkner

Maxxofor

The original tagline was: "The picture runs 130 minutes!... The story covers 96 of the most critical hours in man's history!... The suspense will last through your lifetime!"

Tim Faulkner

Oh, and spoiler... but if the virus doesn't effect people with breathing problems and people who breath fast, how would it spread among people running away terrified from rageaholic victims.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

The film will either be phenomenally good or a phenomenal train wreck. Either way will be really really interesting. I, personally, think they're both smart enough to avoid the train wreck. And Andre Braugher always gets my support. Remember, this clip is an advertisement. With such a short time to get your attention, the pace here may have little or nothing to do with how the final film plays.

MonkeyT

Plague

Tim Faulkner

Also, in the book, the birds were never affected.

Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set

what a very poor treatment of a good book and original movie.

dinergy

diverguy

Falconfire

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