# Possible The Stars My Destination movie coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-the-stars-my-destination-movie-coming/714024 "2015-03-02T16:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-the-stars-my-destination-movie-coming/714024/21 "2015-04-29T20:42:07Z")
> [@Launce](#): > > Sticking to SF, two greats … > > Frankenstein > Blade Runner > > And perhaps … > > The Invisible Man > 1984 > War of the Worlds? > 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea > Things to Come (well, _I_ like it!) Hmm. The classic 1931 **Frankenstein** isn’t even remotely faithful to the book. More recent versions come closer (The underappreciated **Victor Frankenstein** AKA **Terror of Frankenstein** from 1975, Kenneth Branaugh’s version from 1994 (wjichj is splashier, but less faithful) and the 2004 miniseries (closest to the novel, but the Monster is downright good-looking) are better. **BladeRunner** departs pretty significantly from Philip K. Dick’s _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_ **The Invisible Man** from Universal with Claude Rains follows Wells in many ways, but updates to 1933, adds personal details and plot complications not in the book, and screenwriter Philip Wylie added things from his own Invisible Man story. But other adaptations stratyed even farther from the book. The **1984** version of **1984** was awesome and incredibly faithful (right down to being filmed in London in 1984, and with John Hurt looking disturbingly like George Orwell) **War of the Worlds** – both film versions took considerable liberties with Wells’; novel. Much as I love George Pal and Steven Spielberg, I was disappointed. **20,000 Leagues Under the Sea** – the Disney version has a lot going for it, and is better than just about any other adaptation (to see how wrong they can go, have a look at the part-silent 1929 film _[The Mysterious Island_, which is really an badaptation of 20,000 Leagues. And not a good one.). I love it, but it still differs significantrly from Verne, especially when the Disney film suggests that Nemo’s _Nautilus_ is powered by a nuclear reactor like that (then) contemporary _Nautilus_. And Nemo’s base at “Vulkania” is destroyed by a mushroom cloud-producing device. **Things to Come** isn’t really based on Wells’ _The Shape of Things to Come_, which isn’t a novel. One might as well try to base a film on Aldous Huxley’s _Brave New World Revisited_ (which isn’t a sequel to _Brave New World_). In fact, the film didn’t really have much to base it on at all, which was part of the problem. It has awesome visuals, and stirring pro-science optimism, but it’s really kinda dumb. When Stanley Kubrick finished watching it, at Arthur C. Clarke’s suggestion, he reportedly told Clarke never to recommend a movie again. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-the-stars-my-destination-movie-coming/714024/22 "2015-04-29T21:12:47Z")
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