No ‘Rendezvous with Rama’ for Fincher?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 1:35PM | By Franck Tabouring If you are a die-hard David Fincher fan and you are still looking forward to his big-screen adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi novel “Rendezvous with Rama,” I must disappoint you: the project is dead.
Firstshowing.net recently talked to the helmer and asked him about the status of the adaptation, which was supposed to star Morgan Freeman. Sad to say, Fincher believes it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
"It looks like it's not going to happen. There's no script and as you know, [Morgan Freeman's] not in the best of health right now. We've been trying to do it but it's probably not going to happen," he said.
Dang, that really sucks! Apparently, Fincher has been fighting for many years to gather the appropriate funding, but as it turns out, he doesn’t seem to have enough to get the ball rolling on the project.
When I first heard about this plans to bring Clarke’s book to life I was really excited, but this news is a pretty big shock.
Fortunately, Fincher fans will be able to see his latest flick in theaters Dec. 25, 2008. It stars Brad Pitt and is titled “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” The trailer sure looks fantastic.
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This is really sad. Those are great books and would make great movies. I guess we can just hope that somebody gets this project done, because it could be GREAT! Just my two cents.
I cannot understand why it is that a man who has contributed so much to science and writes superb stories such as this cannot be entitled to a follow up to his 2001 oddessey. Let this and perhaps a film for each of the Rama books be a legacy to this great man.