Star Trek writer adapting Heinlein’s Have Spacesuit for a film
By Scott Edelman at Sci Fi Wire
One of Robert A. Heinlein greatest novels, Have Space Suit—Will Travel—the last the author published specifically for a young audience—is being adapted for the big screen by Harry Kloor, who’s written for Star Trek: Voyager and Earth: Final Conflict, Variety reported.
“I was inspired to become a scientist and science fiction writer in part by reading the works of Grand Master Robert Heinlein,” said Kloor, who has also written the upcoming animated feature Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey.
Have Space Suit—Will Travel… set in 2040, tells the story of a teenager who loses a contest for a free trip to the moon but wins an obsolete spacesuit—which ends up leading him to humanity’s first contact with aliens.
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2nd Deathly Hallows trailer teases with gripping new footage
By Scott Edelman at Sci Fi Wire
Warner Brothers has just released the second trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as part of the LEGO Harry Potter Collector’s Edition, and things don’t look good for the boy wizard.
But then, if you’ve read the books (and you have read them, haven’t you?), you already know that poor Harry has some tough times ahead.
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Sam Worthington Wants To Be A Comic Book King
by Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical
The rise of Sam Worthington has been curtailed a little bit. After being up for every single character from Dracula to Dan Dare, his name has disappeared from weekly casting reports and rumors. I could insert some snarky “maybe he wasn’t the next action star” comment here, but that just seems mean, especially since he’s now a go to star for Radical Comics. According to THR’s Heat Vision, Worthington has formed a new production shingle called Full Clip Productions, and is teaming up with Radical to develop comics and graphic novels that could be sent straight to the screen. Worthington and one of his Full Clip partners, John Schwarz, will basically have first pick of any juicy starring roles.
Their first project with Radical is called Damages. John and Michael Schwarz came up with the story — “two brothers are committed to justice in different ways” — and tapped David Lapham to pen the graphic novel. They’re currently looking for a screenwriter who can then adapt it for film.
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The Last Airbender: The Greatest Fan Film of All Time
Matt London and Jordan Hamessley at Tor
Critics with a greater gift of snark than I have will be able to provide the heavy-handed irony that seems to be expected of reviews of The Last Airbender. Frankly, all the hate is exhausting. So, rather than bash an easy target like this terrible movie, let’s carefully examine what went wrong, and maybe start a dialogue about how they could have fixed it.
The thing that hurts The Last Airbender the most is that it is based on a popular television series. Too complex to rope in a new audience, too short and Cliffnote-y to satisfy all the fans. Almost all the best adaptations deviate heavily from their source material. They have to. TV and film are not the same. When filmmakers cling to the structure of something far grander than a two-hour movie can contain, the result is a film that feels more like a much longer film with all sorts of stuff cut out, indiscriminately, like a horror movie shown during the day on network TV.
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Star Trek: Voyager is my favorite Star Trek series, so I have high hopes for the movie. I’d love to see any of Heinlein’s other books get made. As much as I like the movie Starship Troopers, it has nothing to do with the book. The second trailer for Deathly Hallows was a little disappointing after the first one–which made me SO excited.I’ve been surprised by all of the bad reviews for The Last Air Bender. I thought it looked really good, but I never watched the show, so maybe that’s why?
Have you seen The Last Airbender? What did you think? Are you excited for Harry Potter?
