After Cloud Atlas: Five Upcoming Sci-Fi Adaptations To Look Forward To

October 26, 2012 Gem Seddon 16 Comments

ready player one cover 612x360 After Cloud Atlas: Five Upcoming Sci Fi Adaptations To Look Forward To

Cloud Atlas arrives in selected theatres this weekend accompanied by the smog of its all-encompassing and mouth-agog-inducing premise which slithers across time like a large hypothetical python.

With no regard for traditional tropes and early on touted as unfilmable, the sci-fi genre-blend novel by David Mitchell spans the entire history of time plucking out characters and incidents for the purpose of proving that everything is connected. Also proving that everything except House Of Leaves can be adapted into a movie.

With the literary world brimming with ideas ripe for the big screen it’s only a matter of time before the rights to bestsellers are snapped up by Hollywood. The following list is just a select taste of science fiction adaptations in production which combine horror, comedy, fantasy and rather a lot of dystopia.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Catalin-Rotariu/750959757 Catalin Rotariu

asa butterfield as Ender … hmm. Let’s hope that I die before this movie is released. Please, if there is a GOD.
n8csquared

I’m really looking forward to Ender’s Game. One of my favourite books of all time without question and I have faith they’ll do it justice. After waiting this long I don’t think Card would let a horrible script through.
- Che Broadnax
  
  One of the previous scripts — WRITTEN by Card — was AWFUL. Aside from being a terrible piece of writing, it blows the ending in the first ten pages. Don’t be so sure this won’t be a steaming pile of formic poo.
http://twitter.com/curtisjunk Curtis Jensen

Ender’s Game presents ethical problems for me. Orson Scott Card is a world class homophobe and religious zealot whose values are direct conflict with any fair minded individual and the ethos of Sci-fi which I always think of as being about the progress of human kind and the expansion of respect, freedom and equality. Putting money into his pocket, promoting his books and the increasing sales likely to result just don’t sit well with me. He uses his fame to actively and loudly promote anti-Gay causes. More money in his pocket isn’t something i will “look forward to”
- Jeff
  
  You need to take a look in the crazy mirror. Half of Hollywood are pedophiles and rapists and your upset about the author of a book who doesn’t agree with the homosexual lifestyle?
  - concerned louisvillian
    
    Jeff you are a moron.. try to live in this century
- Molly
  
  Sci-fi is about the possibility of fucking an alien, that just translates to equality.
http://twitter.com/curtisjunk Curtis Jensen

Now Snow Crash, there’s a film I’m excited about. Frankly I would love to see all of Stephenson’s novels adapted and his “Baroque Cycle” should be turned into a premium cable series and explored over the course of several years. Love me some Stephenson!
Luke Milwauker

The Grey Lensmen!!!
http://twitter.com/rustrobot Alexis Ayala

You forgot about Vincenzo Natali’s adaption of Neuromancer. That should most certainly be on the list.
Jordi

So rediculously excited for “Ready Player 1″!
bobnotbob

Ender’s Game is one of the worst sci-fi novels ever written. Perhaps the movie will appeal to the 12 years old for which it was written.
Andric

Curtis nobody cares about your feelings…
http://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeyer1979 Michael Meyer

One of my favorite books I have ever read and would LOVE to see in a movie (if done right, of course) is “Stranger In a Strange Land” by Robert Heinlein. Don’t get me wrong… I know it would be a long shot. Fantastic book though
http://www.facebook.com/MichaelMeyer1979 Michael Meyer

Or how about the “Foundation” series by Isaac Asimov?
Jebediah Kaine

Based on his writings, Orson Scott Card is clearly a latent homosexual with barely suppressed pedophilic tendencies. Just the kind of writer Hollywood might enjoy. Hopefully, his film will fall into development hell…again.