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Originally Posted by Curt Chiarelli  Yup! Spot On J.D.!
And don't forget that when these talented writers do hand in something of value, it's often corrupted and meddled with by lesser hands (like, say, the directors) for reasons of ego and one-upsmanship . . . . |
Yes, well.... On producers, I keep thinking of the tale of how Ellison reamed out a studio exec and told him he had the intellectual capacity of an artichoke because he wanted to make the robots in Ellison's screenplay of
I, Robot "cuter"... like R2D2 and C3PO... all without having read the script that his studio was planning on spending one of (if not the) largest budgets to date on producing a film from....
Oh, and for anyone interested in seeing what a truly great film could be made from Asimov's book... read the screenplay by Harlan Ellison. It's very easy to follow, and a damn' fine example of what science fiction
can be (but seldom is) on the screen.... (It was published in book form some years back.)