Re: Dan Simmons Hyperion movie?

jojo wrote:

> On Apr 3, 7:16 pm, peachy a****e passion <exquisitepe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>jojo wrote:
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>>>On Apr 3, 3:21 pm, ravenlynne <ravenly...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>Better start reading the books:
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>>>>http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=51630
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>>>>Warner Develops Hyperion Film
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>>>>Producer Graham King has set up Dan Simmons' award-winning science
>>>>fiction book series Hyperion Cantos at Warner Brothers, with Trevor
>>>>Sands on board to adapt the first two books as one feature, according
to
>>>>The Hollywood Re****ter. King is producing via his GK Films banner.
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>>>>The first book, Hyperion, won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990,
>>>>while the second, The Fall of Hyperion, was nominated for a Nebula
Award
>>>>for best novel.
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>>>>Hyperion deals with a space war, with most of the action taking place
on
>>>>a planet named Hyperion, known not only for its electricity-spewing
>>>>trees but also for the Time Tombs, large artifacts that can move
through
>>>>time. The tombs are guarded by a monster called the Shrike, which
>>>>impales people on metal trees.
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>>>>King acquired the rights to the series several years ago, but its
>>>>structure--inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury
>>>>Tales--and its multiple timelines made the task of adapting it into a
>>>>feature unwieldy and challenging.
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>>>I have been waiting for years for this movie. Actually, I hope there
>>>will be 2 movies at least because I can't see who it could fit in one.
>>>Now, I want a new Dune, and that at last we get Daren Aronofsky make
>>>the "Flicker" novel into a movie as he promised.
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>>   A new Dune?  ANOTHER Dune?
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> I want a *good* one at last.


   What would it take to be a good one?