Posted on 03/02/2015 3:26:07 PM PST by EveningStar
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is talks to acquire feature-film rights for the classic sci-fi novel The Stars My Destination for producer Mary Parent. Written by Alfred Bester, the book (better known as Tiger! Tiger! in the U.K. for its opening-page reprint of a William Blake poem) follows a man who is shipwrecked in space for years when one day a rescue crew passes him by. Angered, he channels his energies into seeking revenge and begins scheming. The key art of the book is enough to get anyone intrigued.
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never heard of it.
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One of my favorites.
One of mine too.
Gully Foyle is my name
and Terra is my station.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
the stars my destination.
One of the all-time great stories - how in heaven’s name can such brilliance be transcribed to film?
Still sends chills up my spine. Bester was a genius.
Along with Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Harlan Ellison, and Edgar Pangborn, and some others I can’t remember, Bester is one of the genre’s great writers.
Attempts to bring this - along with The Demolished Man - to the screen have gone nowhere.
Without delving deep, I believe, based on my memory, that this line should be ...
"and Terra is my nation."
Much of good SF relies upon mind pictures that do not translate well into movies. Heinlein has definitely suffered from his movie treatments and 'Alfie' Bester's exuberant writing in this novel would be difficult even with CGI to transfer well to the screen. Jaunting is easy, portraying the "Five Mile Circus" would be challenging! Still, there is the success of Phillip Dick's novels, so we can always hope!
In ways a ripoff, er, adaptation of the Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, but still a great book. Really, tho - who will believe a man can jaunte through space
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One of the greatest scifi novels ever written. I bet hollywood really f***s it up.
Well, I can’t prove I’m right, since TSMD is about the only Bester work of which I don’t currently have a copy.
I’m pretty sure it’s “station”, though, based on my own memory, which is admittedly far from perfect.
I guess we’ll have to say that tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun....
Can't say that I've read much Bester. Whatever I have read, I either don't remember the title, or don't remember it was his. (And I would've read it a looooong time ago.)
Alfie called this a 'Pepsid' as a jingle that is so hard to forget it furnishes protection against telepathic eavesdropping. Of course in today's world, nobody wonders "where the yellow went!"
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