Stanislow Lem's book or Tarkovsky's adaption ?
As far as the general impasse between the two mediums goes, the movie was an earnest attempt at a 'faithful' adaptation of the spirit of the novel. He was just limited to visual metaphor and timing. The novel also has a lot of overlap with the story of the Garden of Eden and I presume a lot of other man-comes-before-God (limited vs infinite intelligence) explorations of other cultures. I wouldn't be surprised if he wrote it during his 'struggles' with atheism and disconnect with the anthropocentric image of a God-figure. He has some pretty key passages of neurological/botanical overlays and Lem has those shots in the movie.
Nothing new under the sun anyways. I'm pretty sure Michael Crichton's Sphere is a direct riff on Solaris. As is Arrival, in which case the short story author approached it from the very specific angle of his field of expertise which was linguistics heuristics. And that's just two mass-market examples. I'd bet there are like eighty Star Trek abyss-also... episodes that Star Trek fans would smugly - and rightly - point out.Typical me - my suggestion of new things for the Solaris story is a non-starter due to the fact that it doesn't require new things.
Mirror-shows-your-worst-nightmare stories are fun. Also, her eyes are kind of weird. Just a tad bit sleepy, you know?
Okay so we expect a first draft in four months. Your advance is a copy of Shaun of the Dead autographed by you-know-who.
Reminds me of the Wishmaster movie from 1997.
If you really felt any of those ideas had merit, feel free to use 'em. You have a gift.
Wow! Every day is a school day. I thought the original was pretty and never knew it had been remade. Cool, thanks.
I've watched & enjoyed it a few times, mate, but it's an acquired taste.
Good shouts. Both have a lot of potential as a long term series.
Aye I’d love to see long series of both.
Yeah and those two never got an O Level in English. Not going to blow smoke up your ass but if that's a middling grade then you're good at pretending to be above middling or at least when it comes to Gothic-dripping-with-velvet.
There's like a hundred of them.
All bad,mind. Obviously discounting Verhoeven's fascist cult classic.The first 2 were quite interesting. After that,though, the films were abit creepy in the Reggie is a pervert way.
Think it was the 3rd film where Reggie,clearly in his 40's,was hitting on a 17 year old black girl. F*cking creepy shit.
Yeah but this isn't high-level sci-fi. This is a fog/mirror/lake/haunted object that somehow manifests extremely creepy things whether one is conscious of it or not. You could set it in a small town in Wales. Look you could be putting all this effort deflecting into working on the first chapter you know!
Very kind but the truth is that writing quality, high-level sci-fi is beyond my abilities.
Why would you want to remake that ?
Hahahaha
I loved the original and I think it could be redone. It is difficult to argue for the remake of any great film, but it happens and sometimes they do a good job.
The original had a remake in 1997. But nothing beats the 1950’s original
He's going to play Duncan Idaho, a man that ladies fawn over, who's a good fighter and doesn't talk too much so this role might actually fit him well.
They are making a sequel already with Dwayne Johnson.
