# OT:Hyperion *The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 22 Mar 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Gryphoncrossing at aol.com *22 Mar 2005, 17:46* In a message dated 3/22/2005 8:23:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes: Another Hyperion fan! Excellent... >>> And another. Simmons reports that all four books are being written as >>> one three-hour movie, I believe, for Martin Scorsese. I have a feeling Scorsese will end up just exec-producing it, though. Hyperion exists on that line of great SF books that are literature which cannot reasonably be translated into film, and those that are good stories that can. I bring this up because I find Wolfe perhaps the living SF writer whose work is SO book-ish that I can't imagine it being adapted to film. On the other end are the many SF books which seem to have been written with an ultimate movie adaptation in mind. John --- ### maru *22 Mar 2005, 17:55 · in reply to Gryphoncrossing at aol.com* > Gryphoncrossing at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/22/2005 8:23:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes: > > Another Hyperion fan! Excellent... >>>> And another. Simmons reports that all four books are being written >>>> as one three-hour movie, I believe, for Martin Scorsese. I have a >>>> feeling Scorsese will end up just exec-producing it, though. > > Hyperion exists on that line of great SF books that are literature > which cannot reasonably be translated into film, and those that are > good stories that can. I bring this up because I find Wolfe perhaps > the living SF writer whose work is SO book-ish that I can't imagine it > being adapted to film. On the other end are the many SF books which > seem to have been written with an ultimate movie adaptation in mind. > > John > > maru: If I were a bigger Simmons fan, I'd know that already. Oh well. /maru agrees with the last paragraph, but is about to die from laughing at the first one. If they can't even get Ender's Game right, to try and do the Hyperion quartet is, in units of hubristicness, beyond the power of any numbers mortals can devise to express. /quit Maru (Scorsese? *shakes head*) --- ### Gryphoncrossing at aol.com *22 Mar 2005, 19:31 · follows maru* In a message dated 3/22/2005 9:55:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes: If they can't even get Ender's Game right, to try and do the Hyperion quartet is, in units of hubristicness, beyond the power of any numbers mortals can devise to express. /quit Maru (Scorsese? *shakes head*) >>> Agreed, but Simmons seems to think they came up with a good idea for a >>> unifying idea/character. I am pretty sure he isn't actually writing it. Scorsese is a bizarre choice, but he has so many projects in development I have a feeling this one won't come off. I thought Peace would make a good weird movie, but that's me. ---