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What is your most favourite book?
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[quote:Vision Thing:MV8xODE2MjY1XzMwMjU3MTI5X0Q4QUM2MTg5] [quote:LifeInDeath:MV8xODE2MjY1XzMwMjUwMTcxXzM2RDcyNTQ3] [quote:Anonymous Coward 13075653:MV8xODE2MjY1XzMwMjQ5ODEyX0I2M0Q4RUNF] RingWorld by Larry Niven,I do not understand why Hollywood has not made this classic Sci-Fi into a movie, probably a good thing because they sure screwed up DUNE, Larry Niven also wrote a bunch of Louis Wu stories that Rock, Hollywood has not touched them, why ? Larry Niven grew up in Beverly Hills and was/is an Heir to a great oil fortune, so I suspect that he is pissed on by the Hollywood mutant lib entertainment crowd. Larry Niven Rocks ! [/quote] James Cameron had the rights about 10 or 12 years ago, for a while at least. It's possible he still has them, I don't know. He really wanted to do it, but got side-tracked by a succession of other projects (eventually culminating in Avatar). For a while he was trying to do a couple of really big Mars related movies, and had even acquired the rights to Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (great series, not as great as Ringworld, though). He was also working with Dr. Robert Zubrin, formerly of NASA on that project. I think the reason Ringworld hasn't been made is because it's simply so enormously epic in scale that it would be very difficult to do justice to. You mentioned how the screwed up Dune, and you're right, and I think it's maybe sort of the same problem. I guess the story of Ringworld is much more contained than that of Dune, but Ringworld doesn't really work unless you are able to accurately convey the unimaginable scale of the Ringworld structure, itself. Even on the big screen, I think it would somehow be lost. In the mind of a reader, it does work. [/quote] The scale is one thing, but there's another aspect of Ringworld that really stands out to me, Louis Wu's interior struggle against the wire. That is some great writing about addiction and I just don't know what kind of footage you can get out of him sitting there drooling. But his terrible problem and Niven's great description of it and how it really drives a lot of the plot, is what makes that book really special to me. Similar to Case's addiction to cyberspace in Neuromancer - it is very tangible and a source of motivation for action, it is central to the concepts in the book but pretty cerebral and subjective for the big screen. [/quote]
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