Ridley Scott Loves Hugh Howey's Wool 98
Sasayaki writes "Hugh Howey's Wool, the self-published sci-fi story that's made him the best selling Indie sci-fi author of 2012 and currently the best selling sci-fi author on Amazon.com, has found its way into the hands of Ridley Scott (director of Alien, Prometheus and others)... who loved it. Rumor is the Hollywood movie will be coming to cinemas in 2013 or 2014. With Fifty Shades of Grey and now Wool getting the attention of Hollywood, it's clear the self-publishing revolution is here to stay."
Re:Not to start a flame war... (Score:3, Insightful)
Alien was good, Prometheus is excellent (I've seen a preview screening) - why do you not want Scott?
Because a good director does not necessarily a good movie make.
Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut
George Lucas: Phantom Menace
Steven Spielberg: 1941
Ridley Scott: G.I. Jane
As for Prometheus being excellent, forgive me for not taking your word for it.
Personally, I find 3D effects designed to wow the audience by attacking the fourth wall to be tacky and tasteless to the point of ruining a movie even if watched in 2D. Until the directors and movie studios can forget the wow factor, it's just going to make movies worse. And unless the preview footage is all wrong, fourth wall effects is exactly what they've done with the Alien prequel.
Re:Who did editing and printing? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, and the publisher of "War and Peace" was a pine forest.
Re:Not to start a flame war... (Score:5, Insightful)
Eyes Wide Shut is brilliant.
I'm trying to think of movies since then that's had the kind of intellectual heft and technical brilliance of Eyes Wide Shut and there really isn't much.
The other movies you mention blow of course, but the worst movie Stanley Kubrick every made is better than the best movie of any of the other directors.
Some things are a matter of opinion. The greatness of every moment that Stanley Kubrick brought to the screen is not one of them. If there's a Stanley Kubrick film that you did not like, it can only be because you have not yet attained the requisite level of intellectual and spiritual insight.
OK, I think that about covers it.