Movie News
| Taking the long view, the Rim trilogy is a
film/television/net event waiting to happen. Even before its publication,
Rim received a film option offer from Francis Ford
Coppola’s Zoetrope company. Ultimately, it was sold to TriStar
Pictures for Robin Williams’ Blue Wolf
Productions company, with its film-option renewed before it went into proverbial
"turn-around" as a project. (Last word from Robin W. before he
opted to produce his blockbuster film Bicentennial Man: "Rim would
have cost us $100 million to produce. I can only see it being done as a
feature-length animation.") Then came a long parade of interested parties,
U.S. and European, including some big-name writers (among them, Steve
de Souza, writer of the first two "Die Hard" films), directors,
television producers and animation studios. The parade still continues.
Perhaps movie-making technology or timing weren’t right at the time.
But one day everything will come together, I don’t have any doubt about
that. It took Phil K. Dick almost a decade
to see his novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" materialize
on the silver screen as Ridley Scott’s classic noir film Bladerunner. --Alexander Besher |
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Soundtrack
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