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That's not unique to British TV. You ever hear of the series Soap? |
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was always may favorite and one that I think would have made a great movie. I also liked the Glory Road (another good potential movie). If someone ever decided to actually make Starship Troopers into a movie that would be pretty interesting as well. [yea, that's sarcasm based on my view that they totally missed the point of the book in the movie] |
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(I am not a Whovian. Kids ) What do you define long running as? (I would chooseecade or more. Short: Killed before the end of a season ) |
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Sorry, I should have been clearer. There's certainly no shortage of long-running programmes on British TV. Quite a number have run for 20+ years. What I meant is that each individual series is generally no longer than 10 or 12 episodes.
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For clarity: "series" in the UK translates to "season" in the US.
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Why buy the rights to a famous book if you intend to gut it and change it to something it never was? Why not just steal the basic plot, call it a different name and keep all the profits? |
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But I do agree with the gist of your argument. I felt the same way about what became I, Robot. |
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I thought the CGI animated series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles was truer to the book than the movie ever thought of being. My son and I enjoyed watching it together. Even my wife thought it was good.
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Because you abhor the message of the original story, and wish to suppress it from being mass disseminated in a compelling way.
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But it was, essentially, a lie, and intellectually dishonest. It WASN'T "Starship Troopers", it was an entirely different story that happened to have the same name. The tickets to that movie were sold under false pretenses.
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As for the answer to your question on why they release unrelated movies under the names of famous books, the answer is name recognition. In the case of Starship Troopers, it was originally a script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine. Then they bought the rights to Starship Troopers. Paul Verhoeven was uncomfortable with the book as he felt it was pro-fascist and he grew up in occupied Netherlands during World War II. That's why the film is a satire. |
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I think I read "I Am Legend" after seeing the Will Smith movie. As cheesy as "Omega Man" was, it seems to be the better adaptation. The overall tone fits the book a lot better, as do the creatures. Of course, the ending is completely different, but that doesn't surprise me. Quote:
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I dunno about that. The stuff I mentioned was from various interviews with Paul Verhoeven. |
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