Sci-Fi Storm

Sir Ridley Scott, who has not directed an SF film since 1982’s Blade Runner (and prior to that 1979’s Alien) has acquired the rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel, The Forever War. Scott originally wanted to make the movie after Blade Runner, but the rights had already been acquired by Richard Edlund (visual effects guy for the original Star Wars trilogy and won an Oscar for Raiders Of The Lost Ark), who still held them until selling them to Scott. Scott still has a busy queue in front of him, so it remains to be seen if this makes it off the shelf.

Rendezvous With Rama, which Morgan Freeman has been trying to get off the shelf for years, may have fallen into the trashbin, according to David Fincher, who was attached to direct. Apparently a script never materialized, although it sounded hopeful last December. Rama, Ringworld, even Halo…seems we may never get to see a good vision of a megastructure epic…