# \_The Stars My Destination Movie\_

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_the-stars-my-destination-movie_/31128>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 29, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_the-stars-my-destination-movie_/31128 "2000-08-29T01:53:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_the-stars-my-destination-movie_/31128/21 "2000-08-30T00:31:27Z")

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Since this is GQ I have to contribute something relating to the OP…

According to a Bester fansite “the iddividual” _TSMD_ is in the works:

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> Boxoffice Magazine, in their Films in the Works section, a bare bones production staff is listed, citing Paul (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon) Anderson as possible director, David (Aliens, Alien3) Giler and William (Terminator 2) Wisher as screenwriters.

[http://www.argyroneta.com/bester/casting.html](http://www.argyroneta.com/bester/casting.html)

Not very encouraging… Haven’t seen Mortal Kombat, but  
Event Horizon was a major disapointment.

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**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_the-stars-my-destination-movie_/31128/22 "2000-08-30T13:38:20Z")

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Thank you for the link.

Though I may know better, hope springs eternal, and I would love to see a worthy adaptation of TSMD. At the very least, even a poor movie would renew interest in this worthy classic.

As for Heinlein’s _Starship Troopers_ adaptation, I found the parody to be about a subtle as a fart in a bathysphere (I stole that phrase from somebody.)

More interesting I thought were the parallels drawn between Rico, Ibanez and Carl, and the various castes of bugs, as a metaphor for overspecialization.

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**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_the-stars-my-destination-movie_/31128/23 "2000-08-30T17:13:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DVous Means \*  
> \*\*You simply cannot provide a glossary in a movie. \*\*

In a movie, no. _With_ a movie, well, yeah. I still have the glossy glossary that the theatre handed out to viewers when I saw _Dune_ at a mall cineplex years ago. It is of course horribly abbreviated, but it at least tried, on two sides of one sheet, to hit as many important terms and concepts as it could.

Still, it’s rather sad when your movie has to be footnoted with a physical handout…

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