[extropy-chat] The Moon is a Harsh Movie

[Bret Kulakovich]

What a fantastic opportunity to get some very important memes out into 
meatspace!

I have my fingers crossed most strongly.

IMDB has nothing yet. Unlike John Carter of Mars. =)


Anyone know him (Tim) ?


Bret Kulakovich


On Jan 24, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> Some fairly silly soundbites:
>
> http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue405/news.html
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> Minear's Moon Still Rises
>
> Tim Minear, who is adapting Robert A. Heinlein's classic SF novel The 
> Moon Is a Harsh Mistress for the screen, told SCI FI Wire that he just 
> completed the latest draft of the screenplay. "I just actually turned 
> in my next pass at it this morning [Jan. 17] to [producers] David 
> Heyman and Mike Medavoy," Minear said in an interview while promoting 
> his new Fox series The Inside. "The next step is they read it and 
> maybe give me more notes or take it to a director or whatever."
> It's been a pet project for Minear to adapt Heinlein's difficult 
> Hugo-Award-winning 1966 book, about the rebellion of a former lunar 
> penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. 
> "[It's] very difficult to adapt," Minear said. "It's interesting. I 
> kept a lot more from the book than people may have expected. The light 
> {presumably a transcription blooper for `line'} marriages are still 
> there. The free trade with Earth is still there. The catapult is still 
> there. And, you know, it's not a silly arm on a fulcrum or something. 
> The idea is this sort of Ferris wheel thing that takes it up over the 
> gravity well and drops to Earth. {Whaaa--? Oh my dog.} The thing that 
> I changed from the book is that Mike, the computer, manifests himself 
> visually, so he's not just a voice. {He's not just a voice in the 
> book} But what I've done is I've given the citizens of Luna ocular 
> 'ident stamps,' which are the equivalent of prisoner tattoos, and Mike 
> finds a way into the personalized signature of people, so he can show 
> himself to you, but no one else can see him. So that's maybe the thing 
> I added."
>
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> Damien Broderick
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