Ringworld on Film (Larry Niven)

[Roadkiller]

Commercially the Man-Kzin War stories might be more viable. Scary aliens and space battles galore!

[mikodragonfly]

I seriously doubt that anyone could pull off a movie encompassing the scope of Ringworld without eliciting mostly disappoinment, anytime soon. Still, if someone makes it - I'll watch it.

[Roadkiller]

The Ringworld movie project keeps dying, which is too bad.
I think that with today's technology the Ringworld is ripe for a "300" type of treatment. This showed that middle grade actors and lots of CGI can make an entertaining movie.

[iansales]

Er, 300 was rubbish.

[Roadkiller]

While I don't agree, that's also irrelevent.

The point is that with relatively little money a film could be made that would do Ringworld some justice. 300 (whatever you think of it) was filmed in a warehouse in Montreal. Almost everything except the actors was added later with CGI. It had a distinct look and was very popular.

Ringworld could easily be done the same way.

[ghost8772]

Considering how there are an infinite number of fantastic creatured being demonstrated from movies to commercials, F/X is in something like its prime. computer programs can create and animate anything now. a couple hours of green screen with two people, a few days of voice actors doing their thing, then a couple years of computer editing, and could have one beaut of a movie. as long as some bratty hollywood director didn't can the whole actual story for his (or her) "VISION"

[xyz]

Originally Posted by Dave

So far the producer/director team of Phil Tippet (Starship Troopers)

So Nessus is going to have chainguns mounted on his back and the ringworld will be full of killer robots?

Could they pick a worse person for this job?