Please get it right... [?][?][?][?] Thanks for the post, Brent! [?]
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:06 PM, brent wodehouse < brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> wrote: > > > http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021311.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 > > Jupiter 9 'Travels' to sci fi > > Indie to develop tome with Gotham Group > > By DAVE MCNARY > > Harry Kloor's Jupiter 9 Prods. is developing a feature version of Robert > Heinlein's "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" with Gotham Group's Ellen > Goldsmith-Vein and Peter McHugh attached as producers. > > Kloor, who founded Jupiter 9 to promote science literacy, obtained film > rights after presenting a finished script to the Heinlein estate. > > "I was inspired to become a scientist and science fiction writer in part > by reading the works of grand master Robert Heinlein," Kloor said. > > "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" was originally serialized in 1958 in > Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published later that year in > hardcover by Scribner's. Set in 2040, "Space Suit" tells the story of a > teenager who loses a contest for a free trip to the Moon, but wins a > broken-down space suit -- which contains properties that lead to > humanity's first contact with aliens. > > Kloor's credits include writing for such TV series as "Star Trek: > Voyager," the animated series "Godzilla" and the syndie drama "Earth: > Final Conflict," and the upcoming animated feature "Quantum Quest: A > Cassini Space Odyssey," which will be released in large-format theaters in > the fall. "Quantum Quest" interweaves animated sequences rendered by > Digimax with space imagery captured from seven ongoing space missions. > > Gotham Group was a producer on "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and is in > preproduction on "Abduction," starring Taylor Lautner and directed by John > Singleton. > > Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcn...@variety.com <dave.mcnary%40variety.com> > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
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