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  • Perhaps an animated version of Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy".

    From a425couple@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 23 07:47:27 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.heinlein

    view it all at: https://screenrant.com/citizen-of-the-galaxy-animated-movie-development-details/

    director Jay Olivia is now helming an animated adaptation of Citizen of
    the Galaxy. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film will
    follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the
    galaxy at large.. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film
    will follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the
    galaxy at large.

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  • From John Savard@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 24 18:17:28 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.heinlein

    On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:47:27 -0700, a425couple wrote:

    view it all at: https://screenrant.com/citizen-of-the-galaxy-animated-movie-development-
    details/

    director Jay Olivia is now helming an animated adaptation of Citizen of
    the Galaxy. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film will
    follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the
    galaxy at large.. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film
    will follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the galaxy at large.

    I thought this post would be about your own suggestion that it would be a
    nice project to have happen.

    So I was all ready to criticize your idea by saying that I didn't think it likely such a thing could ever be made - unless it was a complete travesty
    of the source material, hardly related to it at all except in name.

    But since it's a real project... I have to add some things...

    a) I'm still afraid that this is what might happen, but if serious people
    are really trying to do it, that is a good sign, indicating at least a *possibility* what I fear may be avoided, but

    b) Come to think of it, this has already happened once in real life,
    although with a live-action movie. Apologies to anyone reading this post
    who had managed to make himself forget Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers".

    If one is tasked with making a film adaptation of a novel which one
    believes to be an apologia for fascism, and one rightly believes fascism
    to be wicked, then doing what Verhoeven did to the book, making his movie
    based on it into an indictment of fascism, is the right and moral thing to
    do. So I do not fault his morals, I fault his reading comprehension.

    In a Star Trek novel, there is a moment where, after looking at the mirror universe version of Shakespeare... he declines to look at the mirror
    universe version of the Bible. On my list of alternate universe movies not
    to watch... is one where The Lord of the Rings recieves the Verhoeven treatment.

    John Savard

    John Savard

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  • From WolfFan@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 24 17:17:53 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.heinlein

    On Aug 23, 2025, a425couple wrote
    (in article <4wkqQ.611983$xyt3.148724@fx15.iad>):

    view it all at: https://screenrant.com/citizen-of-the-galaxy-animated-movie-development-detail
    s/

    director Jay Olivia is now helming an animated adaptation of Citizen of
    the Galaxy. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film will
    follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the
    galaxy at large.. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film
    will follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the galaxy at large.

    Anakin Skywalker lives!

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  • From Mike Van Pelt@21:1/5 to quadibloc@invalid.invalid on Wed Aug 27 01:12:32 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.heinlein

    In article <108fkvo$2v6m4$1@dont-email.me>,
    John Savard <quadibloc@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    So I was all ready to criticize your idea by saying that I didn't think it >likely such a thing could ever be made - unless it was a complete travesty
    of the source material, hardly related to it at all except in name.

    But since it's a real project... I have to add some things...

    a) I'm still afraid that this is what might happen, but if serious people
    are really trying to do it, that is a good sign, indicating at least a >*possibility* what I fear may be avoided, but
    ( Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers" )

    I'm hoping this treatment will be at least as respectful
    as the "Puppet Masters" movie, which I thought was a pretty
    decent treatment, especially considering the limitations the
    filmmakers were under. (Budget issues, studio involvement,
    and, of course, not wanting an NC17 rating, so things couldn't
    be allowed to progress to Schedule Suntan.) A lot of Genuine
    Heinline shown through.

    Fingers crossed...
    --
    Mike Van Pelt | "I don't advise it unless you're nuts."
    mvp at calweb.com | -- Ray Wilkinson, after riding out Hurricane
    KE6BVH | Ike on Surfside Beach in Galveston

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