Plans for any more Kelvinverse novels?

[Stevil2001]

David Menasche's "The Priority List." This story from the Hollywood Reporter is the first and last thing reported about the adaptation. I'm not in the book, but a couple of my classmates got a vignette. I did see him once after he finished his roadtrip when I was doing one of my own, between when he finished the book and when it was published.

Interesting, thanks. That's a neat story.

I went to grad school at the University of Connecticut, where one of the English professors was Sam Pickering, the real person upon which Robin Williams's character in Dead Poet Society was based. Whenever he discussed it (which was not often), he mostly disowned it. "I didn't do all that stuff because I wanted to inspire young minds, I did it because I was bored! I was trying to make teaching interesting!"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Hmm. Interesting that a higher motive was ascribed falsely, rather than a lower one. Sounds like a movie in and of itself - a guy who does something quite by accident or for selfish reasons, only to be venerated by people who (for once) believe the best of a person.

@Stevil2001 shades of Cochrane's explanation for building warp drive.

 

[Christopher]

Sounds like a movie in and of itself - a guy who does something quite by accident or for selfish reasons, only to be venerated by people who (for once) believe the best of a person.

Li Nalas in DS9's season 2 premiere trilogy.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Not necessarily a Trek movie, though.

 

[Greg Cox]

That's basically how Fredric Brown got a credit for "Arena." It also happened with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. It's often assumed to be an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's story of that name, but it was a separate story, and when Ray Harryhausen pointed out the similarity to the producers, they bought the rights to Bradbury's story and adopted its title to capitalize on his popularity, with Bradbury changing the story's name to "The Fog Horn" in future editions.

My understanding is that something similar happened with REAL STEEL, the robot-boxing movie with Hugh Jackman. At some point in its development, somebody realized that the premise was uncomfortably close to Richard Matheson's story "Steel" (previously adapted on the original TWILIGHT ZONE tv series) so they paid Matheson for the rights and gave him a screen credit.

Indeed, I believe screen credit goes something like "Based in part on a story by Richard Matheson" -- or words to that effect.

 

[Christopher]

My understanding is that something similar happened with REAL STEEL, the robot-boxing movie with Hugh Jackman. At some point in its development, somebody realized that the premise was uncomfortably close to Richard Matheson's story "Steel" (previously adapted on the original TWILIGHT ZONE tv series) so they paid Matheson for the rights and gave him a screen credit.

Indeed, I believe screen credit goes something like "Based in part on a story by Richard Matheson" -- or words to that effect.

I can buy that it wasn't really based on Matheson's story, since it's one of those rare movies that I quit watching before I'd gotten very far.