Rendezvous with Rama 

I agree. It's also interesting that the Rama design aesthetic shows up in Star Trek: The Voyage Home and in Dune.

I read that Denis Villeneuve is supposed to direct the Rama movie. Considering what he has done with his interpretation of the Dune movie then I would feel that Rama is in good hands with him. I read in the article that he is a huge fan of the Rama novel so that is a good starting point for any adaptation.

@@blackbelt2000 Great news! Yes, I think Villeneuve did a fabulous job on the new Dune reinterpretation, better than what I was expecting. So, a fine choice for Rama.

I’ve read the original Foundation trilogy twice and loved that along with the Apple TV+. I would recommend listening to the Foundation podcast where the director explains why the changes were made, and how his father told him as a kid to read it and he loves the novels too but said it was unfilmable as it was in that nobody would want to watch the novel direct to screen. I’ve watched it twice and think it’s stunning. It keeps very strongly to the spirit of the books, changes them yes but all films are “based on books”, something is always changed. It’s how they’re changed and why that I think makes the difference.

"But Goyer says he first wanted to make sure his proposed changes met with the approval of the late Asimov’s daughter Robyn and the Asimov literary estate."

Dennis Villeneuve has the rights, and I truely hope he gives this epic drama a shot, the visuals alone would be EPIC beyond proportions!

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I think that's why he is such a good author he doesn't wrap anything up leaves it to your imagination. All of his ideas Kinda leave them floating in the air for your own creative thinking.

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denis Villeneuve is working on it

@@mrcoal69 heard he's actually doing Dune 3 instead

@@Briaaanz rendevous with rama will come after dune messiah

The movie is being directed by Denis Villeneuve, best known for Dune, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Sicario. Looking forward to it.

​@@gameworlder9331 ha!

Hollywood will monkey around with Arthur's novel and mess up the film.

Don't worry so much about Denis Villeneuve. He's an excellent director and he remains very faithful to source material.

@@Lonette For sure. Hollywood will put in a love story drama, and make it about the characters instead of the object itself. Rama itself is the main character in the book. But they'll put George Clooney and Scarlett johansen with a terribly written love story or some other bollox.

They are making a movie of it.

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Thanks Michael!

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Thank you for your words, Charles :)

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Indeed!

"I see the Truth of it"....

Hell they could do that with 2001 and 2010. Before people yell sacrilege hear this out. It will never happen but Ive been thinking about it for a while, just take out the years 2001 and 2010 and keep just the titles to make them timeless. You could make the Earth scenes seem futuristic enough to always seem like its anywhere from 20 to 50 to maybe 100 years in the future like Interstellar did, and at the end of the filming for "A Space Odyssey" be absolutely sure to film ALL the scenes needed for "The Year We Make Contact" involving Dr. Floyd encountering Dave in the Discovery. -They act the scene out in advance with the _young_ Dave Bowman character during the space odyssey filing, wait a number of years for the "Dr. Floyd" actor to age a little, then dig up the old Dave footage from years before and pop it in the new series 10 years later with the older Heywood Floyd. The actor could watch himself from the last series to brush up on the character and make it seamless, as if hes right there talking to Dave, which would be a very crucial moment tying it all together. I would also like to see Dr. Floyd age in the very same actor instead of two different actors like we got before. The whole movie could focus on Dr. Heywood Floyd a little more so than the originals and explore every angle that couldn't be shown in a 2+ hour movie making it much less confusing for so many. As long as nothing is over-embellished and the world they live in looks like the future but still something we can all relate too it should still work! Keir Dulla could cameo playing another memorable character in old age like one of the guys in a nice suit in the Clavius moon base meeting or something, maybe hes the Clavius administrator?! LOL Even a comic adaptation would suffice.

Unless like Dune/Avatar a two or three parter is made.

I seem to remember that the Syfy channel was going to make a mini series of it around the same time as they did another of Arthur C Clarke's books Childhood's End. Don't know what happened.

It's on audible. I'm listening to it at the moment

@@raeda99 I'm tech illiterate and I barely know how to use RU-vid. Luckily I figured out the email is what gets every app started. Once I figured out RU-vid I became an instant addict of information.

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You kind of have to change a lot or come up with a creative explanation why they don't have certain techs or other limitations. Personally I would prefer something like a Rama inspired story done as a mini series. Keep the stuff that works and re-imagine what doesn't. Open with a forward explaining the move. I can see one way an faithful version to the book could be made. Use Unreal engine and do the whole thing in CGI with meta people, Morgan Freeman could narrate or be the voice of Norton, he owns the rights last I heard. Would be a great way show powerful the engine really is, push to go a life like as they can.

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It's back on! It's in pre-production right now. Check it out on IMDB.

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Thanks for your words, Markus, and I agree with you about the adaptation :)

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Villneuve wants after Dune part 2 to do this

I've always meant to read the sequels, but they're rather hard to find these days.

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The original book is good, technical because Clarke, a wonderful story despite Clarke... I read two interesting in places, but too woke like a lot of novelists trying to woo Hollywood.