Hutch wrote:61Cygni wrote:Hopefully, the script won't go through rewrite hell and suffer from the too-many-cooks syndrome, and Evergreen gets the right director. Because that's where the movie can really go off the rails, as the wrong director may decide he doesn't care much for the source material and decides to make his own version of the story. Imagine if Uwe Boll gets hired...who then casts Megan Fox as Honor...who spends most of her time in tight pants and tanl tops. That may not be the worst of it. Someone may decide that the Graysons are too close to Muslims for Hollywood comfort, so they get remade into Space Aliens. Oh, and since the whole political situation is too complex for the average moviegoer to understand, the new Graysons are turned into Evil Space Aliens and made the Bad Guys for the movie, and Haven is left out completely. Oh, and the director thinks Jar Jar Binks was the best thing ever, so Nimitz now talks...with the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. And hey, someone equates the Age Of Sail analog of the battles with pirates, so the ships now fire actual cannons at each other at ranges of 100 meters.
Oh, thank you very much for that mental picture, 61Cyngi. Now I have to go to the store for the X-large bottle of Brain Bleach....
I will make one prediction. They'll call the "Thunder of God" a Battleship, not a Battlecruiser--because everyone knows that a Battleship is something big and mean, but since Battlecruisers haven't been built for 60 years, the term won't add the amount of menace you need to have for the Big Bad.
But hopefully (and as of now it seems the producers are interested in staying with the main story, for potential sequels if nothing else) the movie we finally see will resemble the book we have come to love....more or less.
IMHO as always. YMMV.
I doubt they will call the Thunder of God a Battleship. To many moviegoers I think a Battlecruiser would be just as well known as something big and mean as a Battleship.