[TheForge] Harlan the Dwarf

[Michael Horgan]

Harry Turtledove told me how this works...  Somebody reads the book... does 
a 10 page synopsis, and shops it to an agent, who takes a one page 
abridgement of the synopsis to the producer who sells the idea and then 
takes the abridgement, gives it to a screen writer to make a 
script...   The author gets paid, but has ,usually, nothing to do with the 
movie....
This is how David Brin's excellent book, "The Postman" became Kevin 
Costner's "The Postman"... an ok movie.


At 04:01 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>Blade Runner was an OK movie, but my understanding was that Phillip K Dick 
>was outraged at the adaptation.   After he died I heard that he had made 
>nice with the producers, but felt that had he been alive he would have had 
>a different opinion.   In any event the story and book bear little resemblance.
>
>Charles
>
>Ries Niemi wrote:
>
>>ROY- you may be the emperor- but you got your science fiction writers 
>>mixed up.
>>
>>Androids was a story by Phillip K. Dick, who once he was safely dead, has 
>>proven to be a gold mine for Hollywood.
>>In addition to Bladerunner,  something like 5 other movies have been 
>>based on his short stories-
>>
>>Minority Report, Total Recall, that creepy killer machine movie with the 
>>Robocop actor- the one with sentient saw blades running thru the ground 
>>and cutting you up...
>>And at least a couple more- I think they are making another Phillip K 
>>Dick movie right now.
>>
>>But Harlan, although he wrote a lot of tv shows, including some Star 
>>Trek's, just never made it on the big screen.
>>
>>ries
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