I have the same sentiments.
I'd like to see a "Repairman Jack" novel by F. Paul Wilson
on the screen. But considering these novels would thought to be
too conservative, too pro Second Amendment supporting, and
very pro individual liberty by Left-wing Hollyweird,
I can understand why they're ignored.
I don’t know if you guys have seen “Arrival” playing in the theaters now but it is an extremely well done SciFi film. I don’t see classic SciFi transferring to film very well unless it is fantasy with Orcs, Wizards etc.
Space Opera is hit and miss but classic speculative SciFi is almost never translated to film that well.
Arrival was very well done and worked for my wife and I. Another pair of senior couples behind us did not “get” it and thought it was a big whoop.
I think if you are a person who has read some very speculative fictional stories you can follow it. If you are looking for another comic book, this isn’t going to be it.
Well I’m not familiar with F. Paul Wilson, but it looks like his first sales were in Amazing in the early 70s. The movie the Keep was based on his 1981 book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keep_(Wilson_novel)
So at least he had something adapted by hollywood, even if it was a financial disaster.
I guess I was thinking more about contemporaries of PKD as far as sci-fi era. Poul Anderson, Jack Vance, and so on.
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