gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Army - 75th Infantry)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2008-10-15 07:35 pm

The *other* book that drove me to be a solider.

The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman, is finally being made into a movie. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Aliens) will be directing.

Please, please get it right!

[identity profile] tsjafo.livejournal.com 2008-10-16 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
*shudders*
Please, don't even mention that abomination. Heinlein fans everywhere will spend the rest of their lives trying to convince the unsuspecting victims of that farce that it bears no relationship beyond it's name, to the wonderful story Heinlein told.

[identity profile] isomeme.livejournal.com 2008-10-16 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree it was awful, but its awfulness arose in part from the fact that it *did* have a relationship beyond its name to the novel. It was like a vicious caricature or parody of the original. If it were simply unrelated, it wouldn't be so dismaying.