Via SlashFlim

Iain M. Banks Sci-Fi Phenomenon The Culture Headed to The Big Screen

Move over Dune, your time is up. Iain M. Banks‘ The Culture is finally coming to the big screen.

The first of Banks’ science fiction novels to portray ‘The Culture’ was Consider Phlebas, published back in 1987. That was when I was a young teenager and always keen to find the next big thing in genre literature, so having loved Banks’ The Wasp Factory, I scooped it up hungrily and was almost instantly sucked into something so much bigger, more complex and awesome than I had dared to expect.

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Via SciFi Wire

Shaun of the Dead Guys Take On UFO Sci-fi

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost—the stars of and creative forces behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz—will team up next with Seth Rogen for the sci-fi E.T. comedy Paul.

Pegg and Frost co-wrote Paul and star as English sci-fi fans who encounter an actual alien, voiced by Rogen, as they tour America to see famous UFO sites (after a stop at Comic-Con in San Diego). Rogen’s Paul is a computer-generated alien, and Superbad director Greg Mottola has completed filming in and around Albuquerque, N.M.

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Both look to be interesting additions to the SciFi film genre.  One a raunchy comedic take on sci-fi, the other a little more complex and serious.

Are you an Iain M. Banks fan? Are you excited The Culture will be adapted to film??  What are your thoughts about the film Paul?