Latest Rama news: "That's a got-to-be-done movie."
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If they did it I would go see it.
I'm thrilled that both Freeman and Fincher are still trying to make this film work, but I'm dismayed by Freeman's insistence that it has to be 3-D.
It'd be silly to spend a lot of money on a movie like this and not do it in 3D at this point. Freeman's a very smart guy; he's "future-proofing" the production.
^Really? With all the backlash against 3D lately, I'm not convinced it's going to be more than a passing fad -- again.
If you can find a theater showing the 2D version.
Phooey on 3D! I'm holding out for the VR version. 
No movies should ever be made that do not mindlessly chase after the latest marketing gimmick!!!
No movies should ever be made that do not mindlessly chase after the latest marketing gimmick!!!
This is my favourite novel and I really want to see it made. I however disagree that it should be Fincher involved. He's too dark and moody. The novel was all about astronauts with the "right stuff"; I worry he'll take it in a different direction. James Cameron would make it look right and he's great at getting the details right, especially for a sci fi/sci fact movie (he was planning a Mars movie until Red Planet and Mission to Mars came out) but he too might take it the wrong way.
I don't mind about the 3D thing, as long as it's done like Avatar and not like Clash of the Titans.
I don't mind about the 3D thing, as long as it's done like Avatar and not like Clash of the Titans.
Just because Fincher favours "movies that scar," that doesn't mean he can't make one with different themes. His visual style actually matches up with the descriptions in the book quite well. I first read the book several months after seeing "The Game," and I remember thinking "Fincher would be perfect to make a movie out of this." Only time of my life I was that prescient.
I also think the book lends itself to a film told in 3D perfectly. I don't mind 3D as long as it's shot in 3D, and if the 3D has thematic purpose. Rendezvous With Rama would be AMAZING in 3D.
This, directed by Fincher, is one of my all time most anticipated phantom projects. I hope it comes together eventually.
Eh, I don't care if they shoot it for 3D as long as they get it right. This is the greatest "sense of wonder" book ever written, but I'm afraid they'll just reduce it to a bunch of splosions and dark, ugly sets and despicable characters, like just about everything else these days.
Only if they adapt the second book...
Actually, the PC game was based on RAMA II, and managed to jettison most of that, so anything's possible.
^^ The sequel trilogy was written by a different guy.
I would hope so, but he did cite Avatar, which was a mega splosion action flick.
True, it was visually spectacular, just too reliant on violence.
Gentry Lee, but Clarke was still involved, working actively with Clarke on the outlines. Clarke's name isn't the biggest thing above the title for nothing (okay, mostly for advertising purposes, but it's not as if he wasn't involved).
The RAMA sequels, incidentally, are the only Clarke books I've ever been happy to part with at a used bookstore.
