Exciting! - An "Old man's War" film now in the works!

[Hyperspace05]

This is (IMO) very exciting news... Paramount has purchased the movie rights for John Scalzi's epic Sci-Fi novel "Old Man's War".
Wolfgang Petersen (director), Scott Stuber (producer), and David Self (screenwriter) are attached to the project:
http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/paramount-buys-old-mans-war-for-wolfgang-petersen-and-scott-stuber/

For those who haven't read the book (you should!), here's a quote about it from the story I linked to:

The hero is a 75-year old man who, having lost the love of his life, is amenable to trading his old carcass for a younger, genetically enhanced body so that he can combine the experience of age with the strength of youth and join an outer space military coalition sent to protect human colonies in outer space. Inductees agree to leave their past lives on earth behind, and are promised land on distant human colonies if they live. Injured in battle, he’s rescued by a special-forces officer who seems to be a younger version of his wife. She doesn’t recognize him, but he’s so convinced he has another chance with her that he abandons his unit and risks everything to be with her.

I'm a huge fan of this series of books, so I'm certainly looking forward to this. And they better do it justice!

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I heard the news earlier today, however I never read the book. So I downloaded it to my iPad and just read the first two chapters. Not far enough in to give an assessment but I like it enough to continue. Will report back in when finished.

 

[Mistral]

I heard the news earlier today, however I never read the book. So I downloaded it to my iPad and just read the first two chapters. Not far enough in to give an assessment but I like it enough to continue. Will report back in when finished.

It's often cited as a new classic. It certainly was a fun read.
Let's see if this gets off the ground.
Took Hollywood long enough to find out about it....

 

[Kelso]

I hope they can pull this off.

 

[diankra]

It's a superb book, and it is Hollywood friendly in that the central character is an old man adjusting to being in a young man's body (ie, nice cameo for the old man, plus a handsome youngster for the main plot).
But... very political, and very much character -led. If those bits get lost in favour of only the space battles, it'll be one of those 'I prefer to remember the book' films.

 

[Hyperspace05]

I heard the news earlier today, however I never read the book. So I downloaded it to my iPad and just read the first two chapters. Not far enough in to give an assessment but I like it enough to continue. Will report back in when finished.

Some have explained the book(s) as "Starship Troopers meets Avatar"... And I think it is a pretty good and concise explanation. (It is of course more than that also)

Scalzi is IMO one of the most interesting current SF authors.