{"id":706,"date":"2008-04-07T07:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2008-04-04T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T15:48:25","slug":"hyperion-being-adapted-by-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"<I>Hyperion<\/I> Being Adapted by Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The studio has announced that they&#8217;ll be adapting the first two books of Dan Simmons&#8217; Hyperion Cantos (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hyperion-Dan-Simmons\/dp\/0553283685\/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1207323940&#038;sr=8-2\">Hyperion<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fall-Hyperion-Dan-Simmons\/dp\/0553288202\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1207324008&#038;sr=8-3\">Fall of Hyperion<\/A>) into one feature film.  Trevor Sands, a relative newcomer, convinced the studio to let him write the adaptation by &#8220;taking a selective approach to the two novels&#8217; multiple points of view in a way that managed to coherently and unconfusingly tell the story.&#8221;  I&#8217;ll believe <I>that<\/I> when I see it.<\/p>\n<p>Graham King (<I>The Departed<\/I>, <I>Blood Diamond<\/I>, <I>The Aviator<\/I>) will be producing.  No word on a director yet.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a pretty awesome movie with the right script and a big enough budget.  I&#8217;d love to see a CGI Shrike.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2008\/04\/03\/dan-simmonss-hyperion-sci-fi-series-being-adapted-by-warner-bros\/\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/bigdumbobject.co.uk\/\">Big Dumb Object<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The studio has announced that they&#8217;ll be adapting the first two books of Dan Simmons&#8217; Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion) into one feature film. Trevor Sands, a relative newcomer, convinced the studio to let him write the adaptation by &#8220;taking a selective approach to the two novels&#8217; multiple points of view in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}