{"id":2094,"date":"2008-10-18T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2008-10-18T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T15:51:21","slug":"news_to_make_my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"News To Make My Geeky Heart Go Pitter-Patter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director Ridley Scott has plans to turn the classic science fiction novel The Forever War<\/i><\/a> into a film<\/a>. I first encountered this book during a college course on literature inspired by the Vietnam War and it blew me away. It tells the story of William Mandella, a soldier swept up in a long and brutal war between humans and a race of hostile aliens. Mandella is part of an elite combat unit that is dispatched to battles in faraway corners of the galaxy and, because of the time-dilating effects of space travel, he returns home each time to a human civilization that seems increasingly alien to him. The only familiar fixtures in his life are his combat unit and the war itself. <\/p>\n

Hollywood has a depressing track record of stripping great genre books of all their nuance and complexity, which results in bloodless film adaptations that leave only the haziest impression on audiences. To prove my point, how many of you can remember even a fragment of a scene from I, Robot<\/i><\/a>? Neither can I. But Scott is a good choice for this project, assuming he can persuade the studio to keep the suits at bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Ridley Scott has plans to turn the classic science fiction novel The Forever War into a film. I first encountered this book during a college course on literature inspired by the Vietnam War and it blew me away. It tells the story of William Mandella, a soldier swept up in a long and brutal […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}