# Why are certain Golden Age Sf authors filmed, and others not?

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**Created:** [September 26, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-certain-golden-age-sf-authors-filmed-and-others-not/699629 "2014-09-26T11:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-certain-golden-age-sf-authors-filmed-and-others-not/699629/41 "2014-09-28T02:01:24Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> A number of Asimov’s novels and short stories have been filmed:
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> [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001920/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001920/)
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> And here are those from Howard’s works:
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> [Robert E. Howard - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397574/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4)

As someone upthread mentioned in general, the film\* I, Robot\* has absolutely nothing to do with Asimov’s novel.

They may have kept the Laws of Robotics, I quit paying attention early on. 🙂

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**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-certain-golden-age-sf-authors-filmed-and-others-not/699629/42 "2014-09-28T04:40:29Z")

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> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> I’m still waiting for a _Dhalgren_ movie…

😃

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**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-certain-golden-age-sf-authors-filmed-and-others-not/699629/43 "2014-10-01T20:42:25Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> I think you don’t know enough about comics - _IM3_ takes large parts from the Extremis story arc in the comics.

It was a bad example maybe, but the point still stands. Even using “large parts” of a comic “arc” generally doesn’t mean they deliberately adapted it.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-certain-golden-age-sf-authors-filmed-and-others-not/699629/44 "2014-10-02T12:40:50Z")

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I dunno, then, I clearly just do not grok what the difference is between an adaptation and not. To me, _IM3_ adapts the _Extremis_ story to fit into the existing MU. If you ask me “What is the basis for Iron Man 3’s story?” I would say “Extremis” without hesitation. So I don’t understand the distinction you, or **Chuck** , or others, seem to want to make between “filming” a work and “adapting” it - it’s like, I wouldn’t expect a _The Stars My Destination_ movie to incorporate everything from the novel (certainly not the raping) or use the exact same Inner System vs Outer Colonies setting. All I want is my Teleporting Tattooed Count of Monte Cristo movie, damn it!

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