Joseph DeMartino wrote:
> This would be seriously cool if they can pull it off.  As for it being
> one of the projects JMS mentioned -  it is certainly *possible*, but
> he talked about those quite awhile ago and Howard is only *now*
> opening negotiations to acquire an option.  The delay makes me
> wonder.  Would he have felt-out JMS about the project before he even
> tried to acquire the rights?
> 
> Maybe they did discuss it but everyone was too busy with "The
> Changeling" to do anything about it.  Now that's he's probably looking
> at some enforced idle time because of the strike, Howard may be lining
> up other properties that he can develop once the writers come back to
> work.  (Heck, it may even be that JMS suggested "Lensman" as a project
> to Howard back then and Imagine is getting the rights issue out of the
> way so development can start as soon as the strike ends.)
> 
> Certainly an intriguing thought, given the JMS has always cited
> "Lensman" as an influence.  (I've always thought
"B5" was far more
> like a more literary and grown-up "Lensman" than it was like
"Lord of
> the Rings" or any of the other projects it has been compared to.)

But I don't quite get what's being planned here. A movie of "Lensmen", 
even if you left out "Triplanetary" and "First
Lensmen", would be as 
pointless as a movie of the Forsyte Saga, or the entire Sherlock Holmes 
canon. Those are four long, highly episodic books. Even four films would 
involve massive cuts.

Of course, the story that I read made complete hash of the plot of 
"Lensmen" (made it sound like "The Arisian's Quest for the Lens, as 
Witnessed by Kimball Kinnison"), so perhaps it made complete hash of the 
situation, too.

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