With most television shows on hiatus due to the writers strike, it's a good time to reflect on the quality of the genre shows of this past TV season. If you ran Hollywood, what changes would you make? What would stay the same?
Naturally, I accepted. And just as naturally, I busted deadline. But my ramblings are up there now. Here's a taste of what you're in for:
The first film I'd greenlight is Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, a tour-de-force if ever there was one. The beauty of it--in filmmaker's terms, that is--is that it is a "ship in a bottle" story. There is only one real setting, the inside of the runaway starship. There are some grandiose exterior special effects, but nothing that can't be budgeted wisely. As long as the budget isn't busted by signing Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Morgan Freeman, we're in good shape.
And if my mere presence isn't enough to entice you, there's interesting and insightful commentary there from Chris Roberson, Lou Anders and Paul Levinson, among others. Checkitout, as Howard Waldrop would say...
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