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Warners Bringing HYPERION CANTOS To The Screen?!
Merrick here...
Warners has acquired the rights to Dan Simmons' HYPERION CANTOS novels & are working to turn them into movies. Trevor Sands will adapt the first two books in the series (HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION) into one feature script.
The Hugo-winning, Nebula nominated series...
...deals with a space war, with most of the action taking place on a planet named Hyperion, known not only for its electricity-spewing trees but also for the Time Tombs, large artifacts that can move through time. The tombs are guarded by a monster called the Shrike, which impales people on metal trees.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
You can find more information about Simmons' series HERE.
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i guess
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Someone's taken too many rides on the Pineapple Express, me thinks.
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Skip the second two. Please, please, please.
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Luke and Leia's mother kicks the shit out of Scientology!!!! Hell yeah!!
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The Tree of Woe (note the capitalization) would kick all other cinema trees ass - particularly that Ent with the burning head in LOTR.
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Apr 03, 2008 10:31:38 AM CDT
Though that tree with the hanging knights in Excalibur was balls
by jackrabbitslim
Watching too many 80s genre movies
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And are a particulary gruesome "solution" for one character's dilemma.
I think this books would better do a miniseries that a couple of movies... although the amazing visuals and warped out concepts may require movie-like budgets. -
Please be true! We keep getting jerked around with this. Remember when there were rumors with Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio being involved? God I want this to happen already!!!!
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...and this seems more suited for a sci-fi channel miniseries than a theatrical production.
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whether the Shrike should be CG or man in suit. Even though it's pretty clear it'll need to be CG.
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...Warner Brothers didn't swallow up New Line, it was just a fiendish scheme for New Line to parasitise WB's body and greenlight more adaptations of strange and complicated works using underqualified directors (Akira anyone?)...Seriously though, I don't know how they can make this very complicated story work in one film. Like seriously, John Keats? JOHN KEATS! It looks like we might end up with another Dune or Golden Compass...
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a shrike is a bird that impales its prey on thorns or barbs, and comes back to it up to six weeks later. its sometimes referred to as "the butcher bird" due to this seemingly brutal practice. not only am i a comic / buffy / sci fi dork, but a huge natural science nerd.
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From the sounds of things, they're going to turn the first two books into a single film, and simplify the multiple-character plotlines. I mean - come on. That's just stupid. That's like turning Lord of the Rings into one film, and only following Frodo and Sam. You could do it - but you'd be a complete fuckstick.
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I am very skeptical on if this can do the novels justice at all. I have a hard time imagining them bringing each novel seperately to the screen let alone combining the first two.
StovetopStuffin' - The prodcuer that owns the rights still produces most of Scorcese's films so he could still be in the loop on this. -
But HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION together have like 1800 pages! With at least five different storyline spanning more than 200 years of intergalactic history on at least 25 different worlds... makes total sense to put this all into a 90 minutes movie!
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always wanted to see Hyperion on the big screen. Scorsese supposedly was interested at one point.
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Metal trees? Space fights? Time travel? Monster guardian? Break out the Oscars.
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I just finished reading the first two books, the first 'Hyperion' is genius, and being a fan of the new Battlestar series - you can definitely see that Hyperion has strongly influenced the writers in some way.
I can't wait to see this put to screen, I hope they keep the literary feel, all the poems and yearning for old earth is part of the atmosphere. -
Never much chance of this happening but I always felt a 12-20 episode TV series with the start and the end of (at least some of) the episodes being the pilgrimmage and the rest covering each of the stories the pilgrims were telling (very much like the book structure with a bit more of the pilgrimmage covered between each story). I was thinking a minimum of 2 episodes per story.
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I mean it'd be better because they'd have enough time to cover much more of each story. Of course it'd also need a decent budget to make the effects look good. Might have been a good replacement for BSG for a year or two.
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I'm surprised. I love these books as well, but a story of that complexity, condensed into a single film? ... the TV series is a nice idea. Perhaps the pilgrims' back stories can be a miniseries, and the rest of the story a movie. Don't know if that would work... We'll wait and see. Judy Dench for CEO Gladstone!
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Apr 03, 2008 12:46:53 PM CDT
Because it worked so well with QUEEN OF THE DAMNED?!
by godoffireinhell
Also a Warner Bros. release, also two fairly big books crammed into a single film.
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That's why I'm worried...I can easily see some moron in the movie biz saying "Think how bad-ass the Shrike would be! Let's do a movie!" There is NO WAY that both books can be condensed into a single movie and still capture the books. It's why the new Dune will suck, and it's why this project will suck, and it's why fans of complex intelligent SF are always doomed to bemoaning monumental movie suckage of their favorite stories.
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These books to me are like sci-fi's Lors of the Rings. I read all four books once every two years, and am reading them now. It is classic, old school space opera with a vast grand scale and some great ideas. I hope they dont fuck these up.
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Hyperion is a fantastic novel. The sequels are mostly very quality as well. I'm torn between excitement and dread, because I really have NO idea how this is going to translate on the screen.
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That dude Sayid from "Lost" has to be Kassad...
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David Brin's "Startide Rising"??? Where the hell is the buzz on that project? Another fantastic SF novel that Hollywood probably can't wait to fuck up...
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Weren't they attached to this project, like, five or six years back? If Alan Rickman were a decade or so younger, he'd have my vote to play foulmouthed poet Martin Silenus.
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I'm a very varied reader, but i've come back to these books countless times. to me, they are an example of what the best science fiction is capable of.
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the books has got some amazing concepts...parts will be a bit like AAronofsky's space-flying tree...the space battles are awesome...the gates that leads to other worlds...and the re-born part will have the pope hating the it.
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Yeah, there's an insightful description which gives me hope that they know what the fuck they're doing.
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He can do it, I know he can!
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And what about all the Christian imagery and all the religious conjecture in the books? Is it more or less blasphemous than the His Dark Materials books?
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Hyperion is one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written, I can only hope they do a good job!
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I can't WAIT for this. Well, if it is going to suck, then yes, I can. I like these books a lot, and was just talking to some folks about them the other day. It's one of a series of things I am asking my bf to read so he'll get some of my references. These books are smart and well written and I would WAY rather see them done as an HBO maxi-series of 12 episodes or an ongoing series. There's 4 very full of story books just waiting to be done right. WARNERS.... please don't jack this up. You've dictated the HD/ Blu-Ray wars, you have my money already for The Dark Knight, please don't break my heart with this one.
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Naveen Andrews - Kassad FOR SURE
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I loved both the Hyperion and Endymion books, and the Shrike it's the most awesome "alien" monster ever.Seriously, the Shrike can kick the predator's ass any day.You know it's true.
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...faster and deadlier than The Predator, The Terminator and Agent Smith...
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The Hyperian Cantos is one of my favorite sci-fi sagas of all time. My heart practically skipped a beat when I read the headline. So, I'm either nervously excited or else I must be coming down with the flu.
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The Hyperion series is one of the best sci fi series ever written. here's hoping they do it right.
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I loved these books, but i still can't help thinking that they're somewhat obscure outside of sci fi circles, so i don't know if they'll be assigned a big enough budget to do them justice. Anyone whose read them will know the sheer scale and scope involved, the different terrains on the planet hyperion alone should take a sizable budget to portray properly. So i reckon you're looking at a lucasfilm style production in order to do it right. Anyway. I hope they put in Martin Silenus'farcaster house. That was great.
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the nebula award is voted on by the SF writers guild inlike the hugo which is voted on at the world science fiction convention
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and Anvil of Stars movies to be made. I thought Warner Bros. bought the option on these Greg Bear novels years ago...but they haven't done shit so far.
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This would be done as a huge budget mini series on HBO like Band of Brothers.
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Apr 03, 2008 6:46:43 PM CDT
There is no way to combine the first two books into one movie
by mthrndr
Dan Simmons couldn't even do it in the books. The second book picks right up where the first one left off - it's obvious he was forced to split the story out of necessity. There's no way that a merged movie could be successful in any way that would satisfy readers of the books or this site, myself included.
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Please do not touch these books. 1 film. Are you fucking joking. This universe and story make epic seem like a puny word. The back stories the philosphy. How can they even begin to think this would make one movie. If you love the book enough to do an adaptation, you would realise immediately that you would probably need 3 3hour movies lile lotr just to do the first two books. The second two are probably more condensable (SP) (kidney stone anyone. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO1
That is all. I step off my box.
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Ryan Reynolds as Martin Silenus
Saïd Taghmaoui as Kassad
Michelle Rodriguez as Brawne Lamia
Doug Jones as Het Masteen
maybe Joaquin Phoenix as the Consul?
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Man, I was rooting hard for Kassad: One genuine human badass versus an A.I. demi-god. Albeit, a very well armed human badass... insanely great stuff. Considering that each of the pilgrims' stories from the first book could make a self-contained movie, there's no way one film could properly condense both, unless they ditched the back stories, and only focused on the current events, which would be a real bummer.
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Ilium and Olympus are getting the same treatment too (although I heard with a mind toward two movies).
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If you've never read his books, do yourself a favor and grab them. Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion -- one giant story -- are among the best S/F novels ever written, period. And Anti-Fanboy is right: the battle between Kassad (who's wearing the equivalent of a Starship Troopers novel fighting suit, and is bristling with insane weaponry) vs. an advanced killer robot from the future... unbelievable. The Shrike is one of the most badass characters in S/F novel history. (And when you first encounter him, you say, "Holy shit, it's the Shrike!" -- but later, after "situations change" in the Endymion books, you say, "Thank God -- it's the Shrike!"
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Yup, lots to compress. Another large, equally engaging Space Opera with more of a psychological/philosophical bent : The rights to Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Series were bought last year with the film makers promising at least 3 movies, but haven't heard much since. FYI
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I'm a huge Dan Simmons fan. From the Cantos, to Ileum and Olympos, to the Hard as (whatever) series; there is no way they can do the series anywhere close to justice in movie format. Just can't happen.
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the material will allow for a unbelievably cool trailer that will draw large crowds... but... shit. Who wants to settle for an "Hollywood," abridged version of TOTAL-FUCKING-AWESOMENESS.
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I've read all four books twice, and would absolutely love to see a well-made film of the first two novels. Seeing the Shrike breathing, fighting, and pushing every other "Hyperion" plotline into dramatic craziness would make my year.
I'm utterly certain the movie will fall FAR short of the books in scope and character, yet I'm still excited by what I might see. -
of development hell.
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I want a Superman's sequel
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after Transformers already ripped off the Hyperion books for its Megatron design!
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