VaranDragon wrote on Dec 16, 2021, 09:36:

The Flying Penguin wrote on Dec 16, 2021, 09:30:

I just hope they stick to the novel closely, and don't try to 'Hollywoodize' it. I think Freeman respects the IP enough to do it justice. The problem is that the book ends with a LOT of questions, and the Hollywood bean counters don't like screenplays like that.

Unless they drastically change the ending this will not sell well with the studio big-shots. I'd love to see a faithful adaptation, but this isn't Dune. It's not an epic space-opera fantasy. This is hard sci-fi, and is mostly an exploration of the "what if" realistic first encounter scenario. I liked this book far more than I did 2001, but there is no way in hell that this is going to get a proper treatment by hollywood, and if it does, it's gonna tank hard at the box office.