OT:Hyperion

Gryphoncrossing at aol.com · 22 Mar 2005, 17:46 · from 2005-March.txt.gz

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From: Gryphoncrossing at aol.com (Gryphoncrossing at aol.com)
Date: Tue Mar 22 17:46:21 2005
Subject: (urth) OT:Hyperion
Message-ID: <129.59604626.2f72245a at aol.com>

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
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