24 June 2019

Practically A Tradition

The Boy has Hollow Man (2000) on the TV here at Grandma's.

I looked up the trivia on IMDB and find that it's directed by Paul Verhoeven.

The trivia mentions there's a novel called Hollow Man, by Dan Simmons, which has nothing to do with the movie; but they bought the rights just for the title.

This is sounding eerily similar to Starship Troopers...

3 comments:

  1. Also Blade Runner. The title of the story they used was originally "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" but the studio didn't like that, so they bought a totally unrelated novel just for the name.

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    1. Paul Verheoven didn't direct Blade Runner.

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    2. They did the same thing with the Mat Helm books.

      John of the GMA

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