Star Wars... endless and spotty quality.
Star Trek... endless and spotty quality.
Looks like we're getting Avatar forever too.
I want a new universe to watch.
How about an old universe, but one that's only made it to TV the one time.
Larry Niven's Known Space series is no longer technologically impossible.
CGI is finally up to the task of doing the Pierson's Puppeteer.
It's a rich universe that, I think, finally deserves film or HBO mini-series treatment.
The only thing standing in its way is Larry Niven being sane and not wanting to see his universe destroyed by Hollywood.
A Hollywood that would never agree to his "sandbox" rules.
Alas.
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A Niven story was done on TV?
ReplyDeleteWhen was that? I don't recall it at all.
An episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series.
DeleteAn adaptation of The Soft Weapon with Spock filling in for Nessus.
That explains it.
DeleteIn the early '70's I hardly watched any TV at all.
Thanks.
I've seen some mighty fine fan movies. Give the SOTA on things like that twenty years, and Niven or his estate could bypass Tinsel Town and make the movies or miniseries directly. And I liked the Kzinti in Star Trek: TAS...they were pretty cool villains.
ReplyDeleteI'm still bummed we aren't getting endless installments of Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino. Also there hasn't been a Phillip Marlowe movie since that lackluster James Caan adaptation.
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