The show would be about, so after introducing the character tropes andĪ few incidents the pilot ended with a “To Be Continued.” No, itĢ002 version mostly jettisons everything about the originalĮxcept that the tunnel is a super secret military operation.
The last problem was that the series really didn't set up much of a through-line for what
Where she started out could have been interesting. Her wide-eyed innocence works because, if we had seen the film, we know what became of her. Of the Patchett's prostitution ring as she was in the movie, she is introduced as the Here, they roll her character back in time where, instead of already being part Remotely intriguing is the take they have on Lynn Bracken. The less said aboutĮric Roberts the better. Out-of-control rage Crowe showed in the part. The film version, but Hopkins brings none of the nearly
Hopkins as White is okay because he is close to On Pearce's earnestness in the film, but he ends up coming acrossĪs a pathetic weasel. Low-key, almost bored approach to his narration and role as the Lascivious (but funny) creep he was in the film. They also make his character too much like the feature'sīud White. Vincennes half way through the movie), but by starting there, after aīrief glimpse of corruption, they leave the character with practically no See where this came from (it was the same turn that happens to The movie, but as a morose, guilt-ridden cop trying to make amendsįor a bad choice he made in the first minute of the pilot.
Not the corrupt hipster involved in the world of Hollywood TV as in Of the most disastrous decisions was to make Sutherland's Vincennes This on the 2-Disc DVD I can see why they passed on it, because almost everything went wrong. So why didn't it go to series? After watching Shows and screenwriter of Sam Peckinpah's The Pilot was written by Walon Green, a long-time writer on the various Here because the cast was a good mix of TV and film talent, and the
Pruitt Taylor Vince as Sid Hudgens (Danny Devito). In the film), David Conrad as Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Josh Hopkins asīud White (Russell Crowe), Melissa George as Lynn Bracket (Kimīasinger), Eric Roberts as Pierce Patchett (David Strathairn) and Starred Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Vincennes (played by Kevin Spacey Shot in 2000, three years after the feature film's release, Is one of the best, if not the best picture Hollywood released in theġ990s). Series based on Curtis Hanson's superb L.A. I think it has to be re-invented.Rumoured, but never seen until the 2-disc version of the feature filmĬame out on DVD in 2008, was the pilot for the proposed In '72, this was cutting edge, but it's been done so many times in the interim and that makes it very difficult. The interior of Rama is amazing, but there's a lot of stuff in what I call the Andromeda Strain part of the story that doesn't work for me. I love the Melting Sea and all that stuff. It's hard for me to see it in my head and not think that it's going to be goofy. There are people who love Dragonfly and the whole notion of that. It's just too huge… The great thing about Clarke and the same things that make it hard to translate in 2008, it's the source material. That was always the thing: You couldn't afford to build these things as sets. It's probably technologically within striking distance right now. Dark Horizons is carrying an interview with David Fincher in which he talks about his planned adaptation of Arthur C Clark’s Rendezvous with Rama: "When they're happy with, they'll send it to me.