lexator222 Wrote:I'm sorry, but with all that's going on with the studios, with a total halt of any "James Bond" movies "for at least five years" I really don't see how anyone could make an RJ movie.
They could, whether they would or not is another matter.
Quote:Add to that, the fact that the studios REALLY screwed up "Hitchhikers" (which I dearly loved) and I really couldn't see them doing something like that to Jack. Now, if I had a work of love, like the RJ and Adversary novels, I would hold onto them with steel fists, and NEVER let them get near a movie studio! To do the series correctly, you would have to have 3 or 4 movies each year, just to maintain the timeline of the books, and even then, Vickie would be getting SOOOOOO old by the production of "Fatal Error".
The script has already been done, and Paul has said that he's satisfied with it. Furthermore, it's not even remotely likely that there would be movies made of the entire RJ series of books. I would expect that there might be three movies made -- at most. THE TOMB, LEGACIES, and one other . . . possibly.
In a sense, the whole purpose of making a movie in the first place would be to spread the word about Repairman Jack, "based on the novel by ...," in order to create more fans and sell more books. Which is a good thing.
That's how a great many people came to know about FPW's novels to begin with -- after THE KEEP was made into a movie, a good number of people saw the "based on a novel by ...," went out, bought the book, and became ardent fans of F.Paul Wilson.
Ken V.