nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley) (05/02/85)
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This is being posted for a friend of mine who is not on the net. Please reply
by mail to me. Although I dump this group to hard-copy, I may not actually
read it for several months, given my current lack of time, and I think he would
like a response a little sooner than that.
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In 'Jack Of Shadows' (Roger Zelazny) the author description page noted
that out of his 26 books one has been made into a movie and another has
been sold to be made into a movie. Does anyone know anything about either
of these?
Brad Brilliant
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Post responses to: ...decvax!wanginst!apollo!nazgul (Kee Hinckley)demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) (05/04/85)
> ................... > > In 'Jack Of Shadows' (Roger Zelazny) the author description page noted > that out of his 26 books one has been made into a movie and another has > been sold to be made into a movie. Does anyone know anything about either > of these? > > Brad Brilliant > > .................... I'm a week behind on reading SF-LOVERS, so if someone posted a response to this already, please forgive the redundancy... Unfortunately, Zelazny's "Damnation Alley" was made into a movie starring George Pappard and Jean-Michael Vincent... ...It was a rather silly rendition (in my opinion) that was originally to be slated as "Survival Run," but at the last moment the producers decided that "Damnation Alley" wasn't that bad of a title after all... Anyway, the movie took rather large liberties with the book (which I enjoyed, if someone wants to gauge my opinion of the movie based on that :-) ) and added alot of goofy SFX and and neat truck.... ...the movie was, however, not a waste of time and fairly enjoyable... not, I assume, for the reasons that the producers intended, but rather for reasons that we all enjoy Godzilla movies...For instance, we get to here George Peppard say wonderful things like: "Look Out! They're 'Killer Cockroaches' Repeat: 'Killer Cockroaches'!!!!" without so much as cracking a smile.... -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo / =|-- = \ = [][][] "...I don't know what this thing does, but it's pointing in your direction."
demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) (05/04/85)
> ...the movie was, however, not a waste of time and fairly enjoyable... > not, I assume, for the reasons that the producers intended, but rather > for reasons that we all enjoy Godzilla movies...For instance, we get > to [[[ here ]]] George Peppard say wonderful things like: "Look Out! They're > 'Killer Cockroaches' Repeat: 'Killer Cockroaches'!!!!" without > so much as cracking a smile.... > > > -- > --- Rob DeMillo > Madison Academic Computer Center Sigh!!! OK...thought I would flame myself before someone beat me to it: yes....I have been to college...yes...I know that the word meaning: to detect sound waves , is spelled H-E-A-R now, if you'll all excuse me...I've got to go write this on my bathroom wall one hundred times! :-) -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo / =|-- = \ = [][][] "...I don't know what this thing does, but it's pointing in your direction."
boyajian@akov68.DEC (05/07/85)
> From: apollo!nazgul > In 'Jack Of Shadows' (Roger Zelazny) the author description page noted > that out of his 26 books one has been made into a movie and another has > been sold to be made into a movie. Does anyone know anything about either > of these? > > Brad Brilliant The first is obviously DAMNATION ALLEY, which, if you haven't seen it yet, isn't worth the effort of turning on the tv set. The second, I believe is LORD OF LIGHT. I recall reading a few years back that someone had purchased options or rights to film it, and had the whelming idea of creating an amusement park based on the sets and props and things from the film. Needless to say, the whole project went down the tubes. Probably a good thing, too. I don't think I'd trust anyone short of a Stanley Kubrick or Robert Altman to pull off LOL (and I'm not sure about them two, either). --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) (05/08/85)
> <This line intentionally left blank> > > This is being posted for a friend of mine who is not on the net. Please reply > by mail to me. Although I dump this group to hard-copy, I may not actually > read it for several months, given my current lack of time, and I think he would > like a response a little sooner than that. > ................... > > In 'Jack Of Shadows' (Roger Zelazny) the author description page noted > that out of his 26 books one has been made into a movie and another has > been sold to be made into a movie. Does anyone know anything about either > of these? > > Brad Brilliant > > .................... > > Post responses to: ...decvax!wanginst!apollo!nazgul (Kee Hinckley) Sorry. My "reply" function doesn't work very well, I'm too lazy to track down the path, and this might be of general interest anyway. Resiliant excrement. :=) The one that has been into a movie was, an has been mentioned already, DAMNATION ALLEY. The leads in this one COULD have done find job if it had been left alone, but they had to take the "hero" of the novel (the last remaining Hell's Angel, for God's sake!) and turn him into a...never mind. I can't talk about it. The one that might become a movie is LORD OF LIGHT. There is a strange and wonderful tale about why it hasn't been made yet (involving such things as First Amusement Park Rights), but it is now being worked on by some serious people, and might actually happen. I have some ideas on how it SHOULD be done myself, but there is no way anyone could afford to do these things, and no way I could convince anyone to in any case. But it might, really, be happening. We'll just have to wait and see. -- SKZB