Почему не снимают хорошую НФ :)

Dan Simmons делится недавним опытом написания сценария для типа нф кина :)

“Dan, there are two deal breakers here, even if we went – more or less – in your new direction. The first is that you have to make everything a hell of a lot simpler – dialogue, the science stuff, even the plot. Our goal, you understand, is to put butts in the theater seats and to be a success most of those butts are teenagers and pre-teens. That’s why we won’t have any “Fucks” or bare breasts in the movie. We need those pre-teen butts.”

After thinking a few seconds, I said, “But what if this were a smart SF movie – say along the lines of Kubrick’s 2001:A Space Odyssey . . . that put a lot of adult butts in the seats. Grownups. And a lot of them thought about it and talked about it and many came back for a second or third viewing while it was still in the theaters. Wouldn’t it be nice to get more grownups – and some IQ’s with three whole digits – back to the theaters for an SF movie?”

Grumbles and consternation audible all along the nine-person (or maybe ten-person) conference table. My director, miles away from everyone, sighed.

One of the Biggest Producers In the Known Universe then gave the second condition for me being involved in this project. “All the religious stuff you have in the treatment and your big fat thing have to go, Dan. All that Guh-nosikism or whatever. No religion. It drives people away in droves – makes a movie controversial.”

“But this is a real religion, an ancient one with no adherents alive now, that’s made a big comeback in the future,” I said softly. “I’m not exactly attacking Baptists or Muslims. Besides, I like the religious angle.”

“No successful sci-fi movie is going to have religion in it,” said One of the Biggest Producers In the Known Universe. There were eight (or maybe nine) sounds of courageous agreement from the other suits at the table and another audible sigh from the director in his Coldwater Canyon treehouse or wherever he lived.

“May the Force be with you,” I said to all of them.

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