Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary

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De : mds (at) *nospam* bogus.nodomain.nowhere (Mike Spencer)
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Date : 08. Aug 2024, 22:16:25
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First I've heard of this.

I'm a real Stephenson fan.  Genuflect, genuflect.  Cryptonomicon and
the Baroque Cycle were, collectively, the best book I'd read in 50
years.  I've read the whole four volumes 10 times.

Seveneves red-lined my Suspension of Disbelief, pinned it and bent the
needle.  It's the first (and, until FALL, the only) Stephenson novel
that I've read only once and then with little pleasure.

I keep hoping that someone will undertake to put the whole
Cryptonomicon/Baroque Cycle on film with the same effort put into
LoTR.  I don't know how to get in touch with Peter Jackson. :-)

I have this notion:  Neal's agent comes to him and says, "Neal baby,
look Neal, you write these *great* novels but all the really important
stuff, all the best stuff, happens *inside* the characters' *heads*.
It's, like, really hard to put thoughts or amazement or someone doing
a stunning double-take on film.  Can't you just write something where
the important stuff actually *happens*?  Then we can make a movie and
we'll both get ridiculously rich.

And Neal pauses for a moment, then says, "Yeah, I can do that."  And
goes home and writes REAMDE.

Jeez,  REAMDE would make a great action movie with far less work than
scripting a screen version of Cryptomicon and Baroque Cycle.  Instead,
they (yew kno, "they") are going to make yet another, probably
tedious, space opera?

Well, I wish Neal all the best, hope "they" end up giving him a lot of
money.  I owe him for many, many hours of pleasure including having
learned more about 17th c. history than I know about the 8 decades
I've lived through myself.

But could someone please give Peter Jackson a call about Cryptonomicon
and The Baroque Cycle?  Given the insane complications of organizing
and funding a major movie,  I might even live long enough to see it.

ObRASW: Well, Enoch Root and the heavy gold, right? 

--
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

Date Sujet#  Auteur
5 Aug 24 * “SEVENEVES at Legendary”31Lynn McGuire
6 Aug 24 `* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”30D
6 Aug 24  +* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”2Paul S Person
6 Aug 24  i`- Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”1D
6 Aug 24  +* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”5Lynn McGuire
7 Aug 24  i`* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”4Cryptoengineer
7 Aug 24  i `* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”3D
7 Aug 24  i  `* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”2Michael F. Stemper
7 Aug 24  i   `- Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”1D
8 Aug 24  +- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Mike Spencer
9 Aug 24  +* Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”3Paul S Person
11 Aug 24  i+- Re: “SEVENEVES at Legendary”1Paul S Person
3 Sep 24  i`- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Mad Hamish
10 Aug 24  `* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary18Cryptoengineer
10 Aug 24   +* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary13Lynn McGuire
10 Aug 24   i`* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary12Paul S Person
10 Aug 24   i +* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary2Dimensional Traveler
10 Aug 24   i i`- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Cryptoengineer
10 Aug 24   i `* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary9Michael F. Stemper
10 Aug 24   i  +* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary5Cryptoengineer
10 Aug 24   i  i`* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary4William Hyde
11 Aug 24   i  i `* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary3D
11 Aug 24   i  i  `* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary2Paul S Person
11 Aug 24   i  i   `- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1D
11 Aug 24   i  +* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary2Scott Dorsey
11 Aug 24   i  i`- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Paul S Person
11 Aug 24   i  `- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Paul S Person
10 Aug 24   `* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary4Paul S Person
11 Aug 24    `* Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary3Cryptoengineer
11 Aug 24     +- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Bobbie Sellers
12 Aug 24     `- Re: SEVENEVES at Legendary1Paul S Person

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