Robert A. Heinlein
The film version of Atlas Shrugged was financed by outsiders and made, despite Hollywood, which did everything it could to suppress and bury it, as a small-scale, noticeably inexpensive production.
Now, another major libertarian classic, Robert A. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, portraying a lunar revolt against earthly big government has been scheduled to be made by a major studio with a name director.
Bryan Singer is tackling an adaptation of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, based on the classic sci-fi book by Robert A. Heinlein. Twentieth Century Fox recently picked up the movie rights.
Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim will adapt the book for the project, which will be titled Uprising. Singer is producing with Lloyd Braun of Whalerock Industries and Thor Halvorssen. Executive producers are Andrew Mittman and Jason Taylor, and Alex Lloyd and Richard Martin are co-producing.
Heinlein’s 1966 sci-fi novel centers on about a lunar colony’s revolt against rule from Earth. The novel was nominated for the 1966 Nebula award (honoring the best sci-fi and fantasy work in the U.S.) and won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel in 1967.
An adaptation has been attempted twice before — by DreamWorks, which had a script by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and by Phoenix Pictures, with Harry Potter producer David Heyman attached — but both languished and the rights reverted to Heinlein’s estate.
Several of Heinlein’s novels have been adapted for the big and small screen, including the 1953 film Project Moonbase, the 1994 TV miniseries Red Planet, the 1994 film The Puppet Masters, and — very loosely — the 1997 film Starship Troopers.
John the River
NO!
The producer “adapting” the book is the man behind “Green Lantern” and “Arrow”??
Forbid it Almighty God! Forbid it!
Jerry the Geek
Will they have railguns launching moonstones at earth?
I know they’ll muck it up, but it’s so neat that Heinlein will be celebrated for his vision, if not acknowledged for his vision. (CF: “If This Goes On!”)
And yes, I did buy “Starship Troopers” (the movie”. I watch it very year, and carefully avoid rereading the book more frequently than every other year.
(Okay, I do reread the book every year, during my annual January & February “Reread Every Heinlein Book” Marathon.)
Aranon
In the current environment “If This Goes On” would have better legs!
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