Latest Rama news: "That's a got-to-be-done movie."

[Christopher]

My understanding is that Clarke's involvement was minimal. He contributed concepts, but the story and characters were essentially all Lee.

 

[Candlelight]

True, it was visually spectacular, just too reliant on violence.

It was a Cameron movie... come on...

 

[zakkrusz]

Well, I'm still interested in seeing it adapted, since I read the book.

 

[Candlelight]

Since New Zealand isn't making The Hobbit anymore, I think we should make Rama here. We could bend the landscape up to look like the interior of Rama.

They did it in Inception...

 

[RJDiogenes]

My understanding is that Clarke's involvement was minimal. He contributed concepts, but the story and characters were essentially all Lee.

That's what I thought, too, based on what Clarke had written about it. The only things that really seemed Clarkean to me in the books were the aliens.