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That might be my favorite Ted Chiang story overall. Unfortunately Hollywood couldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, so I'm not expecting a movie out of it any t
by wyager 10y ago
That might be my favorite Ted Chiang story overall. Unfortunately Hollywood couldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, so I'm not expecting a movie out of it any time soon. His biblical fiction is quite good as well, and I could see them getting movie adaptations.
- bangonkeyboard 10y agoI'm not sure that "Lifecycle" is less palatable to mainstream Hollywood than "Hell Is the Absence of God", but would be thrilled to be wrong.
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- wyager 10y agoI think Absence could be done as a cool horror movie, kind of like Legion but not shitty and more existential.
- nine_k 10y agoConsider "72 letters": it's brilliant, long but no overly long, packed with ideas and plot twists, and it does stand a chance of becoming a Hollywood movie. (Not that the latter is necessarily a good thing, but still.)
- sooheon 10y agos/unfortunately/fortunately I disagree with your implication that a Hollywood adaptation is the ultimate aspiration of all written works.
- wyager 10y agoI quite enjoyed Arrival. If all of Chiang's stories could get adaptations of similar quality I would be quite happy.