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> [Note to Hollywood: can we please have a Culture movie?] The only one I can think of where they might be able to stay more or less true to the source is Cons
by dghf 12y ago
> [Note to Hollywood: can we please have a Culture movie?]
The only one I can think of where they might be able to stay more or less true to the source is Consider Phlebas, wherein the 'hero' fights for a monotheistic alien race against a bunch of godless communists.
Plus I would dearly love to see the Clear Air Turbulence's escape from the depths of that GSV rendered on the big screen.
- macmac 12y agoCaveat regarding note to Hollywood: Please only allow Nolan to direct, otherwise we are not interested.
- arethuza 12y agoActually, I always wanted to see Luc Besson (Fifth Element) direct a movie of Consider Phlebas. Edit: On the subject of Banks movies - one scene I would love to see (in addition to the CAT escaping from The Ends of Invention) is the scene with the Ethnarch and Zakalwe in UoW, might make a splendid cold open. "I," said the man, "am called Cheradine Zakalwe." He leveled the gun at Ethnarch's nose. "You are called dead." I just realised how carefully worded that is...
- dghf 12y agoIf that means we get Jean Reno as Bora Horza Gobuchul, I'm in.
- maxerickson 12y agoHe's really bad at sci fi. Inception doesn't make any sense (sense in terms of being sci fi, it's good entertainment). Nor do the climactic action scenes in the Batman movies: a mega powerful microwave device that only affects the water inside of far away pipes and a portable, self sustaining fusion reactor that blows up when its battery dies. The Joker's speed with setting up explosives is also a little bit ridiculous, but that's less of an offense against possibility than the above.