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Mr. Cameron's Next VOYAGE Could Be FANTASTIC, And He May Stop By Pandora Again As Well!!
Merrick here...
THIS article in Variety discusses James Cameron's plans now that AVATAR is more or less out of the way. From what I can tell, this Variety piece follows-up MTV's original break of the FANTASTIC VOYAGE portion of the following (HERE).
Several interesting tidbits:
Essentially, Variety pointedly evokes the specter of AVATAR sequels - referring to " a new pair of “Avatars.” This isn't the first time we've heard of this possibility but this may, however, be the first substantive hint we've had that said sequels might arrive sooner than later (which, in Cameron terms, could still be a decade or two away).
Cameron talked up two potential sequels during a press conference before Thursday’s London premiere.
“When I pitched it to Fox, they said, ‘We’ve spent a lot of money creating all these assets, all these CG mountains, plants, trees, leaves, flowers, bugs’ — everything you saw up there on screen had been made by people at workstations over a period of years and so they have value,” said Cameron, who told the assembled U.K. media outlets that he has worked out the story for a second and third film.
Both MTV and Variety also indicate that Cameron may soon be ramping up FANTASTIC VOYAGE, the on-again, off-again re-make/re-adaptation of Richard Fleischer's 1966 inner-body opus (available HERE
), which itself was adapted from a book by Isaac Asimov (find it HERE
).
Although Cameron has never expressed interest in helming the pic — which centers on a dying scientist whose only chance for survival rests with five colleagues who are miniaturized and injected into his bloodstream — he would employ the same pricey 3-D and digital technology on “Fantastic” that was used in “Avatar,” insiders say.
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As for “Fantastic Voyage,” Fox will next need to find a director. Roland Emmerich had been attached to the project before he set his sights on the apocalyptic “2012.” Lately, Indian helmer Tarsem Singh has been rumored as a candidate.
I certainly wouldn't mind revisiting the AVATAR universe. As for FANTASTIC VOYAGE? As long as they find someone who can fill a like Raquel Welch? I'm in...
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“When I pitched it to Fox, they said, ‘We’ve spent a lot of money creating all these assets, all these CG mountains, plants, trees, leaves, flowers, bugs’ — everything you saw up there on screen had been made by people at workstations over a period of years and so they have value,” said Cameron, who told the assembled U.K. media outlets that he has worked out the story for a second and third film.
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As for “Fantastic Voyage,” Fox will next need to find a director. Roland Emmerich had been attached to the project before he set his sights on the apocalyptic “2012.” Lately, Indian helmer Tarsem Singh has been rumored as a candidate.
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another 3-D epic.....
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www.thearnoldfans.com
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He mentioned it as his follow up to Independence Day.
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Pleeeze Battle Angel!!!
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It's one of the most horrific death screams in movie history!
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IN 3-D!!!
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Every citizen in the state of California hates the guy by now.
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For the love of god someone (credible!) please watch that movie!!!!!!!
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Dennis Quaid, Sam Cooke's "Cupid," Robert Picardo...Really liked that flick.
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..where the lines between fiction and reality are permanantly blurred. Those guys - led by the bi-polar mentalist that is ABKing (One guy pretending to be two guys pretending to be one guy, WTF?) - live in a completely different dimension. Bless them.
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...would be great! At the very least, Bob Picardo's Cowboy should make a cameo in Cameron's remake... ;)
"Hey, Jack! Don't knock, just come!" -
Thanks to an exclusive interview MTV got with James Cameron, director of the soon to be unleashed Avatar, we got some pretty frank insights about what plans he has for Arnold in the future. Here's the money quote: 'I think he wants to come back to Hollywood," Cameron said. "I think he wants to act again, and we will talk when he’s clear of his problems and I’m clear of mine." Could they reunite for a project that Tom Arnold has gushed will bring the "True Lies" crew back together? "I’m thinking about things that we could do together," Cameron said. "I’m sure he is as well. This is as close to confirmation as we'll likely come until we hear it from the man himself about coming back to movies. Jim and Arnold have been close friends for a while, so if he is getting that vibe from Arnold, that is a very good sign! It's also good that Jim is thinking of "things," as in, more than one project they could work together on. What a way to come back, with your most successful collaborator!.....
http://www.thearnoldfans.com/news/1578.htm
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Was actually a novelization of the script, not an original novel upon which the script was made. That said, HE didn't make the mistake of leaving the damned submarine in the guy's head. About two seconds after Raquel Welch returned to normal size, you would have heard a horrendous CRUNCH and screams from the operating room as ten tons of steel and plastic emerged from the poor bastards skull. Assholes.
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His desire for an Avatar trilogy smacks of him wanting his own SW franchise. What a deluded and greedy old fucker. Little does he realise that there was much more to SW than just cutting edge CG. Little things like epic storytelling and a superior imagination, that Cameron could never muster in a million years. Next we'll hear him talking about an Avatar prequel. That would be a surprise, eh? Jimmy, the only good idea you had in your life was Terminator. You sold the rights and now can't bear to watch others getting rich off it. Suck it up.
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The original story was by Harry Kleiner, and the screenplay was by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. Asimov did an adaptation of the screenplay, which was released before the film was, so that's where the misunderstanding comes from.
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What about Battle Angel??? Didn't JC want to do that one next - possible Avatar sequels aside? Who wants to see yet another remake, even if it's being helmed by someone like James Cameron?
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Hey moron, there is no hiding the fact that our alias "ABking" are two guys. AICN, MOVIEHOLE, DARKHORIZONS, IGN, THE ARNOLD FANS, STALLONEZONE ect...know ABking is in fact two people (one of us located in BOSTON and the other one in ATLANTA GEORGIA). Obviously we are known on the net as the biggest fans of Schwarzenegger and Stallone and love to promote them in a positive light. Keep your anal piece of shit mouth shut on topics you don't know. There is nothing fictional about THE ARNOLD FANS posts. Read the above info and see Cameron did talk Arnie. It's not made up fanboy talk!
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CAMERON REALLY IS KING OF THE WORLD!!!
Sadly the world only exists on the hardrive of workstations. -
First off get off Lucas dick.
You've made it apparent that you're some lame star wars nerd who is angry that your favorite director is desperately clinging the his only claim to fame.
HAHA Epic storytelling.
"Hug me Annie, Like on Naboo".
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ABking does one of you specialize more in Arnie and the other in Sly or do you divvy up equally?
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One of us use to promote and talk up Arnie more and the other would promote and talk up Sly, but now we divvy up equally.
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Jessica Alba would be an excellent choice for the Cora Peterson (Raquel Welch) character. Check out her swimming scenes from _Into The Blue_. She has has the vibe for FV role.
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...what's that you say, a factual news piece on TAFs? Well knock me down with a feather. Makes a change from your usual fantasy-land drivel about Commando 2, True Lies 2, Junior 2, etc...
As for you actually being two people, who are you trying to convice....us or yourself?
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The only thing ABKing specializes in is mongoloid dementia.
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Dec 11, 2009 9:59:10 AM CST
AnalFissure, visit STALLONEZONE and THEARNOLDS FANS for the late
by abking
on the two ICONS...if Harry doesn't get it first:)
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Cameron a Lucas wannabe? Fuck me, that's laugh out loud funny! Cameron has written and directed some of the best genre movies of the last 25 years. Lucas couldn't direct a stream of his own piss and proved it loud and clear with those last three SW turds. He lucked out with the first trilogy (the best of which wasn't even directed by him... Doh!).
And sorry, I didn't mean turds. I meant big steaming piles of boring shit.
And epic storytelling? A fucking TAX FEUD? Dream on you sad, sad puppy... -
being way hotter than todays bunch.
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It was remade as innerspace and two. I seem to recall an attraction universal studios which was quite similar to fantastic voyage.
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...Sweet baby Jebuz, she was just awesome in her day... Wouldn't mind seeing Rose McGowan taking her place in a remake...
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..."Flare Up?" I think it involved strippers, or something... made quite the impression on my very young mind...
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Bill PUllman was goign to be invaded by a virus or something and Jeff Goldblum and others were going to go into his body to save him. Yeah, pretty fuckin' retarded. Exploring the inner body is an excellent concept, it just has fuck-all to do with Independance Day.
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very underrated movie
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innerspace
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Jim Cameron bought the rights to that comic series several years ago. He was supposedly developing it into a movie. Back burner or dead?
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something called "Fathom"? Not sure if any more were made after that. She also played LUST in Bedazzled. Outstanding! (i was.)
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It was EPCOT - you are thinking of Body Wars simulator ride. Never been on it, I just know about it. I think it's been closed for some time now. (FYI: The attacking antibodies scene in Fantastic Voyage still gives me the creeps!)
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Of course, there was also Disneyland's classic "Adventures Into Inner Space" ride, long-gone, but fondly remembered.
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Good call, rben, forgot about that one...
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Arnold + monkey love = gold.
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After seeing the glory that was Star Wars in 1977. He quit his job even though he had a family to support. He immersed himself in filmmaking. He even said in one intv. that he had periods he could only eat if he went into hotel lobbies and lifted bread from the complimentary baskets. So, yeah, I think Lucas got under his skin all those years back, and he's been trying to climb that mountain. But, unlike you, I don't see any negative to that (I doubt Lucas does, either). As long as he continues to push the envelope and give us good movies, I'm aiight. Once he turns into Emmerich or Bay, I'm out.
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Thanks but no thanks, I prefer to get my film information from credible sources, not sites run by fanboys who still think it's 1984.
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An older sibling covered my eyes during that scene.
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I say this in response to the people who are like "What about Fathom?" What about Fathom? You mean the stupid, boring, completely generic Image comic from the late 90s? Who the fuck cares? There's no concept, no story, no character. 99% of image comics in the 90s were excuses for pin-up art, written by people with no storytelling ability, no sense of drama, and worst of all, NO TASTE.
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He's the man for attention to detail. His Proteus would be "fantastic" and he would probably add the human touch the last remake script lacked. I would love to see him do Star Trek one day; his USS Enterprise would likely do even the TMP one better.
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The original story, which portrayed "steampunk" technology, was written by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. And I have been trying to find that story for a while.
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...to AVOID ALL till i see the film
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wasnt that a remake of Fantastic voyage. I remember an attraction. it was an educational thing about a teenager and that definitely had a fantastic voyage ring to it.
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And from one of the worst screenwriters, probably ever. Nice move, Cameron!
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Fantastic choice. Except he already did it.
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Dec 11, 2009 3:30:04 PM CST
This Summer: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Coolio. The Cash For Life Gu
by autodidact
In Fantastic Voyage.
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Wasn't it called Inner Space or something. You were in a little car and saw a giant eye looking down at you through a microscope and there were a bunch of giant red blood cells projected on the screens around you, etc. It was in Tomorrowland before they tore down and "re-imagined" Tomorrowland.
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in Escape From New York. Fact.
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I remember and miss that. "Still I continue to shrink!" ... "Yes, the snowflake has melted. But there is no cause for alarm. You are back on visual and returning to normal size" (eyeball peering down at you) or something similar. I miss the viscous-looking strands your chair moves past near where you stepped off the machine. Here come the electrons, zipping around. Here's the nucleus, etc. I daydream of a TRON ride that would have little displays about the progress of computers in the queue. Although that'd be weird to have science in the queue and have it all thrown back at you during the ride itself. I went on the People Mover back when the High Speed Tunnel was converted into the TRON portion.
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Wow are you really that anal sore over Avatars great reaction? You can't possibly be serious with that claim...we all know even you don't believe that. The sad thing is you clearly think the only aspect of screenwriting is dialogue. His films are structured flawlessly, they are always emotionally poignant and touching, and his characters are for the most part fleshed out quite well. Not to mention his films rarely have plot holes. Heck he's one of the only directors to write fantastic female action roles...and his so called "poor" writing has yielded many timeless villains. I'm sorry but considering he's written every one of his movies and he's never made a bad movie, how could he possibly be a bad screenwriter? Even his worst scripts are far and away better then any Orci/ Kurtzman script, and many other writers. And regardless of dialogue complaints, he's written some of the most iconic dialogue in film history, so a few cheesy lines is moot.
Terminator 1, 2, Aliens, and The Abyss are all sci-fi classics...the first 3 are masterpieces well The Abyss is damn close. How could these movies be that good if they have poor scripts? Face the facts, Cameron is one of the most multi-talented directors out there. Just cause your butthurt he made another great film doesn't make your BS claims true. Try harder next time, yes? -
His films are also all very strong thematically...that's a product of great writing.
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You promised, James!
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...is coming for sure. Lightcycles are what I'm betting on/hoping for...
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I wonder if Starcade will be re-themed to Flynn's?
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...than "Starcade..." for sure.
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...if the movie tanks. There is supposed to have been a major, E-ticket ride planned for "Atlantis..." But we all know how that movie did, so...
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and jeez...totally forgot how sexist they were in 66...FOUR MEN AND A BEAUTIFUL GIRL....lol
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fucking effect still gives me a headache...bring back smell-o-vision
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the movie was based on a story, not a novel and not by assimov
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All you punk asses that have something negative to say about Mr. Lucas or the prequels need to step back and take a look at the big picture. Whether you liked the films or not (I personally did), you have to realize that those are his films that he created and outlined way before most of you were even a sperm in your daddy's left sac. He had a vision and he fulfilled it for better or worse. Take it or leave it but rest assured that he is laughing all the way to the bank with his creation while you guys can't even come up with a limirick. Before you criticize, come up with an original idea of your own and see how "easy" it is to get it made. He only started with Episode IV: A new hope because it starts smack in the middle of the action and he thought that audiences were not smart enough to grasp his vision from the beginning. You have to realize every studio at the time would not green-light his film. Only Alan Ladd Jr. at 20th Century Fox said yes and even than he was skeptical of the film. Holy Mary am I tired of hearing people gripe about the prequels. Ironically the same people who shit on Lucas/the prequels loved that unholy abortion made by Bay Transformers 2. Where is this world heading. I would gladly watch ten more prequels and not watch another Bay movie even if my life depended on it. That fucking hack. I blame Spielberg for putting him on those pictures in the first place.
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With regard to the intellectual action-film, Cameron is a visionary without equal, and there is one project above all others that he should direct: SUPERMAN. To my mind, the greatest and most powerful superhero should be paired with the world's most remarkable director. James Cameron's Superman would be an utterly jaw-dropping, mind-bending experience, and DC and Warner Bros. should be on their knees begging him to realize Superman's full potential. These other projects are fine, as Cameron would do justice to any of them; but just as Cameron cannot be rivaled by other directors, the Superman mythos cannot be rivaled by other stories in terms of its potential for blending colossal action pieces with intelligent, meaningful, and important themes. I may be the only one who knows it, but Superman is Cameron's destiny -- or at least it should be.
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.. I'd like to see Cameron take on a towering modern myth like Superman. One of my anthro theses was that Superman has become the de-facto stand-in for Jesus in the global commercial culture.
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[undre breath] God help us.
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We play with it, pal...we don't talk to it.
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are very cynical. Star Wars is lucas´s idea. he made a vast fortune out of it. Lucas is a commercial director. He runs a company. most filmmakers these do. His is the famous production company in the world. Speilberg tried that and failed because spielberg didnt have a business brain in his head. and look what happened. Lucas had one ting that the berg did not, his father was business man and ran a successful office supply company. So he made money out of thing he loved. making movies.
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I'd buy a ticket to dee her in that outfit.
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...because, even though it's makes no sense for it to be there, Disney would shoehorn it in there somewhere. It would be better for it to be at the Disney Hollywood Studio park. That park needs more rides.
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I hate movie lingo sometimes
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"There are two things you need to know about me. One: I make love with my boots on. Two...." (whispers in Meg Ryans' ear). Classic movie.
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as assimov pointed out in his novel, the movie was rife with errors...
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The sub gets digested/destroyed by white blood cells/antibodies (whatever they're called) after it crashes in the brain, so it never gets the chance to grow back to normal size.
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The best part of the movie to me was the final bit leading up to Vaughn breaking the girl out of the water tank. The music and pacing is really good there while it intercuts with what is going on in D'Onofrio head.
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idk know. The guy who wrote aliens vs predator...that sucked but this doesn't:
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A white spandex unitard?
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Ummm... That didn't sound right...As much as I'd like to see what Battle Angel Alita would be like (heck, I can't wait to see Avatar! It'll be a few months 'til it gets to my part of the world, unless I travel to town, which I might do...Oh, yeah. I was writing a talkback) I would KILL to see a JC-directed Superman!Yeow!The mind wanders.
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Dec 12, 2009 9:53:43 PM CST
"It worked, Jack...I think you just digested the bad guy"
by nasty in the pasty
[Jack belches]
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I think I just filled the cup.
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Make it so.
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he should play a grizzled long hair and bearded adams like character who left the real world to live in the moutains. Something bad happens up there with evil mean and innocent victims and he somehow get unwantingly involved. And when he strikes back against the bad guys it's fuck brutality on a scale unseen in any of his other films. The man has to come back as a beast. I've wanted to see him rock out a long beard and hair since the throne end scene in conan. Grizzle him up and give him some assholes to fuck up on on a moutain!
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Contrary to what this article says, the original film was not "adapted from a book by Isaac Asimov." It was based on a screenplay which was based on an original story by two writers whose names escape me. Asimov wrote the novelization of the screenplay after the movie was made. You can read all this on the cover of the paperback if you follow the link in this article. One wonders why Mr. Asimov, who was always so crammed full of his own interesting ideas, more than he ever had time to put down on paper, would want to spend the time writing a novelization of someone else's story.
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I was never able to take a foamy bath with Mr. Bubble again...
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Jerome Bixby wrote, and slapped Otto's name on it primarily because he came up with the title.
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Well, it was a good story.....
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