Look, you hafta remember that it takes half a dozen average movie-goers to equal the IQ of a brain-dead stoat. Simplify, simplify,simplify!
Luis Wu is a struggling artist who wins a ticket home on the Starship Titanic during a game of Fizzbin.
Nessus is an obnoxious upperclass Englishman wearing a wig, and everyone hates him (because English people are the only ones that it’s politically correcct to hate in movies).
Speaker is a short, fat comic sidekick, with a catchphrase like “Whassap?” (Memo-see if any beer companies are interested in corporate sponsorship).
The Ringworld is an ordinary, spherical world where everyone just happens to wear rings.
Look, you hafta remember that it takes half a dozen average movie-goers to equal the IQ of a brain-dead stoat. Simplify, simplify,simplify!
Luis Wu is a struggling artist who wins a ticket home on the Starship Titanic during a game of Fizzbin.
Nessus is an obnoxious upperclass Englishman wearing a wig, and everyone hates him (because English people are the only ones that it’s politically correcct to hate in movies).
Speaker is a short, fat comic sidekick, with a catchphrase like “Whassap?” (Memo-see if any beer companies are interested in corporate sponsorship).
The Ringworld is an ordinary, spherical world where everyone just happens to wear rings.
It took me awhile and a bit of Googling to remember who Roland Gift was. Now I remember him! You’re right: shave him bald, put a queue on him, and he’s Louis Wu in the flesh. I wonder if he can act?
That aside, I’m sure I saw some blurb somewhere in my yesterday’s Googling that Chow-Yun Fat was a contender for the part. Now I’ll have to find that again and also look him up and see whoinhell he is. ::whimper:: I’m so behind the times . . .
And Teela Brown is 20 years old, and a dark-haired Nordic.
No. I’m saying that Cameron won’t go to the trouble of throwing Wu’s big party scene with a bunch of people who won’t be recognized as ‘white,’ ‘black,’ ‘asian,’ ‘indian,’ etc…
And on second thought, I’m remembering that Cameron likes to cast people who are relatively unknown.
Terminator: who knew Arnold except for fans of real schlock films.
Titanic: It took so long to produce that when Leo was cast his only acting experience had been on Who’s the Boss (or that show with Allan Thicke).
So look around at failed TV shows to find the actors who fill the shoes of the Ringwalkers.
The source of the rumor was Larry Niven himself. He said his agent called him in the late evening on Friday, and it was important enough for him to return the call. So if the report is false, then Niven is making it up himself.
Untrue. Leo had been in several movies at the time, including “Who’s Eating Gilbert Grape.”
How about Yul Brynner? I haven’t seen him in anything recently! It would be a good revival for his career. Besides, he’s already done Westworld and Future World. This should be quite natural for him.
[sub]What? What do you mean, dead? That’s perfect! He’ll look 200 years old. Oh just get a damn vacuum cleaner out and let him dance with it[/sub].
Backstory shouldn’t really be much of a problem: Take GP hulls, for instance: I can describe all of their properties in 30 seconds. It’d be hard to work it in all at once, but I’m sure it could be done over the course of two hours. A lot of the other things mentioned by Fenris, I don’t think were in the book, at all. I’ve had the devil’s own time trying to find any of the other Known Space books.
They’re not in the book as such, but, for example, the whole “Tame Kzin” thing that motivates about a third of the book is meaningless without knowing about Outsiders, Hyperdrive, Starseed Lures and the Man-Kzin wars. Yeah, they could dumb it down and simply say that the Puppeteers helped the human side covertly, but for me, the backstory and big revelation about the starseed lures, et al was better than the frontstory. If you take away the backstory and discovery and revelations and history, there’s not much left but a setting and a “Go there and come back” plot. I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s gonna be hard.
By the way, Chronos: I think most of Niven’s Known Space stuff is back in print, but in compilation editions like these:here, here, so if you’ve been searching for World of Ptavvs you’re not going to find it under that title.
Or, if you want the originals, http://www.bookfinder.com is your friend (or, if you’re like me, your nemesis: “Curse you, Bookfinder! There’s another $50.00 gone!”)
