Arthur C. Clarke’s works are pretty hard to translate to the big screen. In keeping with that tradition, David Fincher let out word that his Rendezvous With Rama, an adaptation of the noted author’s epic sci-fi novel, looks to be dead.
Speaking to First Showing, Fincher plainly stated that “it looks like it’s not going to happen.”
“There’s no script and as you know, [Morgan Freeman's] not in the best of health right now,” he explained. “We’ve been trying to do it but it’s probably not going to happen.”
The story follows a group of astronauts investigating an alien spaceship that is passing through our solar system. Inside they find a very alien world and something that may still be alive.
Kev said
October 16 2008 @ 4:24 am
Hi. Just found this site and posting; so R with R is commisioned partly made and then abandoned, before I even noticed! Thats a crying shame; not only is it a marvellous book, but, with recent hysteria about ‘lord of light’ coming down in spaceships, very relevant. If its going to happen, its goig to be like ‘Rama’. anyway, another great idea in production hell, and probably another Hollywood remake about to hit the screens. A crying shame… K
Col said
April 8 2009 @ 12:14 am
Here! Here! Kev.
I read Rendezvous With Rama over 25 years ago … and then Gentry Lee’s sequels when they followed. But it’s Arthur’s book that got me enthralled with the concept. Yes, maybe it could really happen. But thats Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi for you, all his books are like that.
And so I’ve been watching and waiting for this movie adaptation since I first got wind of it many years ago. Every now and then a snippet of information appeared. Now this … too hard! Nobody willing to back it. Give them more of what they know!
Still, it would be a hard act to follow in the footsteps of 2001. The preeminent sci-fi movie of all time. Look what they achieved with 1960’s technology in that. After 30 odd years it still hasn’t been matched, let alone beaten. I saw Rama doing that … but then I’m just a dreamer.
RIP Clarke, Kubrick and RAMA.