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Joseph DeMartino says...
>
>On Jan 15, 11:37=A0pm, "Nicole Massey"
 wrote:
>> I just started The Vortex Master, and a question hit me.
>>
>> I know that with movies like the upcoming John Carter of Mars film they'r=
>e
>> taking multiple books and using them as material for the story.
>
>I am obviously not JMS, but I am interested in the topic and have
>looked into previous attempts to adapt the books to film or television
>(including one that succeeded and shouldn't have.)   My suspicion is
>that anyone working on a Lensman project will concentrate on the core
>of the story - the Kim Kinnison part.  "Triluminary" and "First
>Lensman" are backstory, akin to the Story of Valen or the origin of
>the conflict between the Vorlons and Shadows in the "B5" universe.
>They are part of the story, but they aren't what the story is
>*about*.
>
>Just a guess.
>

An informed guess, I'd say.  In Sept. 2008 JMS wrote:

>In brief, and withoiut getting into details that are still in the
>process of being worked out, I've chosen to focus on the story of
>Kimball Kinnison, using his story as the fulcrum by which I can get
>into the whole history of the Lens and outward from there.
>
>jms

http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-17727

Jan


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