I am looking for some information on SF books/novellas/short stories which have been turned into movies. I am only looking at movies made since 1970, although the source material can be from any time. Yes, this is for use in an assignment, but only a very small part. (It's a seminar; I just want to hand out a list of such movies. I already know what I am going to talk about. Hi to anyone else in FINE352!) Much of the information I already have is from the book _Primal Screen_.
The list I already have (approximately sorted by date) follows. If you can fill in any dates, correct any misinformation, or add to the list, please reply by email. I will repost the revised list later in the week.
Movie (Date) _Book_/_Novella_/"Short Story" (Date) Author(s)
No Blade Of Grass (1970) _The Death Of Grass_ (19??) John Christopher A Clockwork Orange (1971) _A Clockwork Orange_ (19??) Anthony Burgess Slaughterhouse Five (1971) _Slaughterhouse Five_ (19??) Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Andromeda Strain (1971) _The Andromeda Strain_ (1969) Michael Crichton The Omega Man (1971) _I Am Legend_ (19??) Richard Matheson Solaris (1972) _Solaris_ (19??) Stanislaw Lem Soylent Green (1973) _Make Room! Make Room!_ (19??) Harry Harrison Stalker (197?) _Roadside Picnic_ (19??) Arkady and Boris Strugatsky The Final Programme (1974) _The Final Programme_ (19??) Michael Moorcock A Boy And His Dog (1975) "A Boy And His Dog" (19??) Harlon Ellison Logan's Run (1976) _Logan's Run_ (1967) William F. Nolan George Clayton Johnson The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) _The Man Who Fell To Earth_ (1963) Walter Tevis The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) _The Body Snatchers_ (19??) Jack Finney Alien (1979) (loosely) "The Black Destroyer" (1939) A.E. VanVogt Somewhere In Time (1980) _Bid Time Return_ (19??) Richard Matheson Bladerunner (1982) "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" (196?) P.K. Dick The Thing (1982) _Who Goes There_ (19??) John W. Campbell 1984 (1984) _1984_ (1948) George Orwell 2010 (1984) _2010_ (1984) Arthur C. Clarke Brazil (1984) (loosely) _1984_ (19??) George Orwell Dune (1984) _Dune_ (196?) Frank Herbert Cocoon (1985) _Cocoon_ (19??) David Saperstein Lifeforce (1985) _The Space Vampires_ (19??) Colin Wilson The Running Man (198?) _The Running Man_ (19??) Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) Where The Wind Blows (1987) (animated) _Where The Wind Blows_ (19??) Raymond Briggs The Handmaid's Tale (198?) _The Handmaid's Tale_ (19??) Margaret Atwood Biggles (1988) _Biggles_ (series) (19??) Capt. W.E. Johns Millenium (1989) "Air Raid" (1978)/_Millenium_ (1983) John Varley They Live (1989) "Eight O'Clock In The Morning" (19??) Ray Nelson Watchers (1989) _Watchers_ (19??) Dean R. Koontz Total Recall (1990) "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (1966) P.K. Dick The Hunt For Red October (198?) _The Hunt For Red October_ (198?) Tom Clancy _________________________________________________________________ / _ \ Greg Schmidt (gjschm...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) \ \__) \ \ |"The world is such a stupid place." -Tom Cochrane & Red Rider| __ \ "If you're optimistic, you're forgetting something." -me \ (_ \ \_____________________________________________________________\___/
Didn't Robert Heinlein have something to do with the film "Destination Moon" done sometime in the middle to late 50's? I think he wrote the script, or it was based on one of his books. My references are at home, and still in boxes from my move, so I'm sorta vague on details.
Also, I'm not too sure that you can consider "The Hunt for Red October" to be Sci-Fi, if so, then what about all the James Bond movies? Wouldn't they be considered Sci-Fi too?
John
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In article <JOHN.92Oct19164...@sekrit.WPI.EDU> j...@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel) writes:
" "Didn't Robert Heinlein have something to do with the film "Destination "Moon" done sometime in the middle to late 50's? I think he wrote the "script, or it was based on one of his books.
It was loosely based on his juvenile novel _Rocket Ship Galileo_; Heinlein did go to Hollywood and worked on the screenplay.
In article <BwDo3w....@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> gjsch...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Greg Schmidt) writes:
>I am looking for some information on SF books/novellas/short stories which >have been turned into movies. I am only looking at movies made since 1970, >although the source material can be from any time. Yes, this is for use in
What about The Planet of the Apes series of movies from the mid-70's and the Martian Chronicles mini series that was on TV in the late 70's?
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Night Flyers, based on the novella of the same name by George R.R. Martin; Nightfall, based on the novella by Isaac Asimov; Condorman, based on "The Game of X" by Robert Sheckley; and then there was that recent movie based on SHeckley's "Immortality, Inc." starring Emilio Estavez & Mick Jagger...
IMHO terrible versions of Andre Norton's The Beast Master, and Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley.
Alan
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In article <7T70sB5w1...@mindvox.phantom.com>, jfre...@mindvox.phantom.com (Jim Freund) writes: > Night Flyers, based on the novella of the same name by George R.R. Martin; > Nightfall, based on the novella by Isaac Asimov; Condorman, based on "The
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I don't see how Asimov allowed Nightfall the movie to be made. They basically took the setting and the character names and came up with a perfectly inane plot that had next to nothing to do with the original. And we wonder why it's a 'B' movie.
> Game of X" by Robert Sheckley; and then there was that recent movie based > on SHeckley's "Immortality, Inc." starring Emilio Estavez & Mick Jagger...
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but while flipping through a Leonard Maltin movie guide I found the following...
Tenth Victim, The (1965-Italian) C-92m. *** D: Elio Petri. Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato. Cult sci-fi of futuristic society where violence is channeled into legalized murder hunts. Here, Ursula hunts Marcello. Intriguing idea, well done. Based on Robert Sheckley's Story "The Sixth Victim."
Might be worth checking out, if an English-language version is available...
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>>>>> On 27 Oct 92 02:16:29 GMT >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Freund (jfre...@mindvox.phantom.com) said:
Jim> Night Flyers, based on the novella of the same name by George Jim> R.R. Martin; Nightfall, based on the novella by Isaac Asimov; Jim> Condorman, based on "The Game of X" by Robert Sheckley; and then Jim> there was that recent movie based on SHeckley's "Immortality, Jim> Inc." starring Emilio Estavez & Mick Jagger... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Freejack"
