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  "thread": {
    "id": 4381,
    "subject": "OT:Hyperion",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2005-03-22T17:46:21+00:00",
    "last": "2005-03-22T19:31:29+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<129.59604626.2f72245a@aol.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gryphoncrossing at aol.com",
        "address": "gryphoncrossing at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-03-22T17:46:21+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT:Hyperion",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": " \nIn a message dated 3/22/2005 8:23:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  \nurth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes:\n\nAnother  Hyperion fan!  Excellent..."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 3,
          "text": "And another.  Simmons reports that all four books are  being written as \none three-hour movie, I believe, for Martin Scorsese.  I  have a feeling "
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          "text": "Scorsese will end up just exec-producing it, though.\n \nHyperion exists on that line of great SF books that are literature which  \ncannot reasonably be translated into film, and those that are good stories that  \ncan.  I bring this up because I find Wolfe perhaps the living SF writer  whose \nwork is SO book-ish that I can't imagine it being adapted to film.   On the \nother end are the many SF books which seem to have been written with an  \nultimate movie adaptation in mind.\n \nJohn"
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<4240CC72.7000906@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maru",
        "address": "marudubshinki at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-03-22T17:55:02+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT:Hyperion",
      "in_reply_to": "<129.59604626.2f72245a@aol.com>",
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          "text": "Gryphoncrossing at aol.com wrote:\nIn a message dated 3/22/2005 8:23:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, \nurth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes:\n\n    Another Hyperion fan!  Excellent..."
        },
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 4,
          "text": "And another.  Simmons reports that all four books are being written \nas one three-hour movie, I believe, for Martin Scorsese.  I have a \nfeeling Scorsese will end up just exec-producing it, though."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": " \nHyperion exists on that line of great SF books that are literature \nwhich cannot reasonably be translated into film, and those that are \ngood stories that can.  I bring this up because I find Wolfe perhaps \nthe living SF writer whose work is SO book-ish that I can't imagine it \nbeing adapted to film.  On the other end are the many SF books which \nseem to have been written with an ultimate movie adaptation in mind.\n \nJohn\n\n "
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          "text": "maru: If I were a bigger Simmons fan, I'd know that already. Oh well.\n/maru agrees with the last paragraph, but is about to die from laughing \nat the first one. If they can't even get Ender's Game right,\nto try and do the Hyperion quartet is, in units of hubristicness, beyond \nthe power of any numbers mortals can devise to express.\n\n/quit Maru (Scorsese? *shakes head*)"
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    {
      "message_id": "<68.520d7cfa.2f723d06@aol.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Gryphoncrossing at aol.com",
        "address": "gryphoncrossing at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-03-22T19:31:29+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT:Hyperion",
      "in_reply_to": "<4240CC72.7000906@gmail.com>",
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          "text": " \nIn a message dated 3/22/2005 9:55:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  \nurth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes:\n\nIf they  can't even get Ender's Game right,\nto try and do the Hyperion quartet is,  in units of hubristicness, beyond \nthe power of any numbers mortals can  devise to express.\n\n/quit Maru (Scorsese? *shakes  head*)"
        },
        {
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          "depth": 3,
          "text": "Agreed, but Simmons seems to think they came up with a good  idea for a \nunifying idea/character.  I am pretty sure he isn't actually  writing it."
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          "text": " \nScorsese is a bizarre choice, but he has so many projects in development I  \nhave a feeling this one won't come off.\n \nI thought Peace would make a good weird movie, but that's me.\n "
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