>> And, if Villeneuve is very smart, he and his collaborators will make Rama very different from its source material. <<
Then don’t make it. Leave it alone. Let someone who finds a way to make the source material work have their crack at it. But quit sh!++ing on the people who actually have original ideas.
I would like to see Riverworld done over.
I REALLY want to see Ringworld done, but these two works have to be done carefully.
Looking forward to the next chapter of Dune.
I read the three sequels, and they were progressively worse.
SPOILER.
The fourth book revealed that the ship had been sent by God to gather intelligence about the universe that He had created. God apparently has Rama ships all over the universe, reporting back to Him.
Also, all xenophobic people, people who hate diversity and hate being around aliens, are sterilized and quarantined on another ship, to humanely live out their lives and then go extinct. So that their xenophobic genes won't contaminate our diverse universe.
“A fully faithful adaption of this Arthur C. Clarke novel won’t translate to film, which means for Rama to be a truly great science fiction film, Villeneuve will need to utterly reinvent it.”
Then call it something else. What’s the problem?
Rama is a HUGE ship, miles and miles long and in diameter.
Large enough that it has weather and a sea inside. And other beings it has collected, voluntarily, from other planets that are in separate compartments...............
I’d like to see a director take a shot at Clarke’s “Childhoods End”. Yes, some of the story has been used in other sci-fi movies, but I think this is the best of alien “Overlords” benevolent control of a World with a very interesting ending and theme throughout. No SPOILER here. Read the book.
I’m waiting for the folks who did the IT movies to take on Attack on Titan. Hope they don’t screw it up.