Apr 15, 20 morgan freeman reveals his plans to film the genre piece rendezvous with rama. Watch stunning fanmade rendezvous with rama movie trailer syfy. The story of clarkes 1973 novel, rendezvous with rama centers on a group of. Clarkes classic novel rendezvous with rama that looked for years as if it was actually. Rendezvous with rama by ruth garbus, released 04 january 2010 1. This is the method we will use to build the cylinder world. Rendezvous with rama fan made movie trailer filmbook. Clarkes rendezvous with rama has also been forever stuck in fincher development hell along with another graphic novel adaptation, black hole. A space odessey, rendezvous with rama is widely regarded as one of clarkes best works, and is often. So just as with last summers amateur green lantern trailer, it was up to the fans to show the big guns how it was done were talking about the movie adaptation of arthur c. As of this writing, nearly 20,000 people have viewed rendezvous with rama in the past 48 hours. Publication date 20090301 topics bbc radio drama, radio sci fi.
On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. Clarkes rendezvous with rama is one of the seminal pieces of sciencefiction, a remarkable book about first contact, and for years now, freemans been trying to get a film. Clarke, in which a giant asteroid comes shooting through the solar system, circa 21 ad. It is mankinds first visitor from the stars and must be investigated. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. David fincher has long wanted to make a film of arthur c.
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the solar system, a perfect cylinder some. So when news breaks that david fincher is attached to yet another movie in development, at this point ive learned to not get my expectations too high. An engaging array of characters set in a world of the future that brings into question thoughts on progress, science and discovery. Lets hope someone else sees the potential for what could be the greatest scifi movie of all time.
I mean, 90 percent of the story centers on the crew of the spaceship endeavours. Morgan freeman on producing rendezvous with rama youtube. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt. A team of astronauts is sent on a mission to explore a giant interstellar spaceship hurtling toward the sun. Cbs radio mystery theater the old ones are hard to kill 1674premiere episode duration. Morgan freeman discusses why he keeps trying to get. Rendezvous with rama by the vancouver film school vfs. Clarkes best novel by a large margin that is quite something, considering 2001, a space oddysey, the city and the stars, and others it is mindblowing that this story has not yet been filmed. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries. Making a movie on the scale that would be required is an. After deploying a space probe, our deepest fears and highest hopes. Watch stunning fanmade rendezvous with rama movie trailer.
Clarkes rendezvous with rama and tried to imagine how hollywood would turn it into a film that held as much. Rendezvous with rama, however, not only deserves to be a featurelength motion picture, it pretty much demands it. Two productions were photographed simultaneously, one version filmed in 16mm bw, and my production which was shot on kodachrome super 8 film stock. Hollywood director david finchers next film to be arthur c. Apr 15, 2018 rendezvous with rama a bbc radio scifi drama. About 4 days ago, i finished rereading a favorite book that id read many years ago. Rendezvous with rama is a very interesting story of a group of astronauts who are sent to dock with an enormous cylinder that has appeared in the sky and which also appears to be on a direct collision course with the sun, giving them a short period of time to explore this strange object. It opens with the discovery, via a fictional program to watch for asteroids that might collide with the earth, of an object coming from outside the solar system that appears to be artificial. An alltime science fiction classic, rendezvous with rama is also one of clarkes best novelsit won the campbell, hugo, jupiter, and nebula awards. Hi everyone, heres a pseudo movie trailer about the famous novel by arthur. Morgan freeman insists rendezvous with rama will get made. The rama sequels, starting with rama ii and on, are coauthored by arthur c. Rendezvous with rama a behind the scenes production film on. A jewishamerican doctor stana katic and a muslim state department employee raza jaffrey find themselves in the center of a strange conspiracy that could bring about the end of days.
Could a rendezvous with rama movie capture the scientific. Jul 30, 2007 a short student film inspired by the arthur c. Rendezvous with rama vancouver film school vfs youtube. Written in collaboration with gentry lee, rama ii has a completely different focus from rendezvous with rama. Clarkes classic novel rendezvous with rama that looked for years as if it was actually going to happenimdb once had a posted release date of 2009but now seems dead. David finchers rendezvous with rama officially dead. At that time, i decided to write about it, but never seemed to get around. Rendezvous with rama focused almost entirely on the exploration of an enormous alien spacecraft. Clarkes 1972 novel is set in the 22nd century, a group of human explorers, who intercept a. The ambitious rama project was started in the late 70s, but was never completed, as cinema group four dissolved. Rendezvous with rama has inspired other media beyond books and movies. Clarkes firstcontact classic rendezvous with rama made for almost. Clarkes wonderful novel, rendezvous with rama, hasnt been made into a movie yet.
The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called rama, disappears. Its about a huge several kilometer long space craft passing near. Clarke rendezvous with rama is a science fiction novel by british writer arthur c. It would make an awesome, intriguing and aweinspiring scifi film, like 2001.
Set in the 2s, the story involves a 50kilometre 31 mile cylindrical alien starship that enters the solar system. Were talking about the movie adaptation of arthur c. Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the solar system, a perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artifact. At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub rama. Ijch another favorite book is going to be a movie arthur.
Everything you need to know about rendezvous with rama movie. The rendezvous 2016 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Rama doesnt strike me as good movie material without heavy changes. By late 2008, david fincher stated the movie was unlikely to be made. Jan 10, 2009 short video i put together adding the music i composed rendezvous with rama.
Directed and animated by aaron ross, tisch school of the arts, nyu in 2001. Dec 14, 2012 hollywood hasnt been able to pull it off. After deploying a space probe, our deepest fears and highest hopes are confirmed. Nov 20, 2017 directed by amin matalqa, annemarie jacir. In the hands of fincher, this promises to be an absolutely amazing scifi picture, one that will live up to fans of clarkes novel as well as audiences who dont know who the hell he is. This is a great story told in classic clarke style. A thirtymilelong cylindrical starship is detected traveling on a course to pass through our solar system. Rendezvous with rama is a science fiction novel by british writer arthur c. Put your abstract thinking caps on rama isnt for the mathematically challenged. I first saw it at this interesting article about pixar.
In 2011, del torro was ready to film but universal refused to. Rendezvous with rama is one of those books i would be afraid of if they turned it into a mini series or film. David fincher has been trying to get rendezvous with rama off the ground for some time now. The sequel to rendezvous with rama, skimming after i got the distasteful flavor of the book. Rendezvous with rama is a science fiction novel by arthur c.
And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. May 23, 2010 the rendezvous with rama fan made movie trailer has premiered. Where does rendezvous with rama rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far. Morgan freeman predicts our future and talks new scifi movie, oblivion duration. To put it bluntly huge spaceship appears in our solar system, gets noticed, a spaceship with a human crew gets dispatched, enters the ship and explores it a bit and then leaves before the space ship leaves our system. With stana katic, raza jaffrey, alfonso bassave, meg cionni.
Clarke published rendezvous with rama, a very well received first contact story that told the tale of a science team venturing inside an alien spacecraft passing through our solar system. It was an absolute blast to record, edit and mix all of the sound for the film, including the. Created by vancouver film school student philip mahoney through the vfs sound design for visual media program. Maybe well never see ramas wonders on film, but if we do, one talented film student has come up with a visualization of how it might look on. Released in 1985 on dos, its still available and playable with some tinkering. Two centuries from now, scientists detect a 10 trillion ton object, nicknamed rama, hurtling through earths solar system at an unfathomable speed. Mar 01, 2019 another favorite book is going to be a movie arthur c.
Rendezvous with rama a bbc radio scifi drama youtube. Rama 1 prototype cylindrical seas flow when the spin stops. Morgan freeman reveals his plans to film the genre piece rendezvous with rama. And sure enough, there is a website set up for the movie. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. Even before that, in 1982 the classic text adventure company infocom made a text adventure called starcross that is clearly inspired by the novel.
Several video game adaptations of the book were made in 1983 and 1996. Theyre cerebral fiction full of ideas and lots of talking, and it would be very difficultif not impossibleto make them work unless they grossly distort the storyline into a shoot em up action piece like they did with i, robot. It just needs a fair budget and the right director. May 17, 2017 rendezvous with rama and foundation are two books that strike me as poor movie material. Its being produced by revelations entertainment with david fincher directing fight club, seven, alien 3 and morgan freeman as part of the cast. Rendezvous with rama is not the first big dumb object science fiction novel, but its one of the most influential. Rendezvous with rama frequently asked questions imdb. Newest rendezvouswithrama questions science fiction.