Masters of Sci-Fi

[Kastor]

Masters of Sci-Fi coming this fall (2006) to ABC...

Directors:

Harold Becker
Jonathan Frakes
Darnell Martin
Michael Petroni
Mark Rydell
Michael Tolkin

Series to be narrated by Professor Stephen Hawking


Scripts:


Episode 1.) "A Clean Escape"

Director : Mark Rydell (The Cowboys and The River)

Writers : Sam Egan (The Outer Limits)
Based on Nebula Award-winning author John Kessels short story

Actors : Sam Waterston and Judy Davis

Plot Description : In A Clean Escape, set not too far in a post-Apocalyptic future, psychiatrist Dr. Deanna Evans (Judy Davis) interrogates a distinguished, if befuddled, man (Sam Waterston) who appears to be suffering from a lapse in memory. Why cant he remember and why is it so important that she uncover the secret he holds deep inside?


Episode 2.) "Jerry Was a Man"

Director : Michael Tolkin (The Rapture and The New Age)

Writers : Michael Tolkin
Based on the classic Robert Heinlein story

Actors : Anne Heche and Malcolm McDowell

Plot Description : Set in the future, the worlds seventh richest couple, the Van Vogels, find their lives changed forever when they acquire an anthropoid named Jerry.


Episode 3.) "The General Zapped an Angel"

Director : Michael Petroni (Till Human Voices Wake Us)

Writers : Michael Petroni
Based on the short story by Howard Fast (Spartacus, Citizen Tom Paine)

Actors : Terry O'Quinn and Elisabeth Rohm

Plot Description : The episode opens outside Baghdad, where U.S. soldiers discover a mysterious casualty, one they can't even identify as human.


Episode 4.) "Little Brother"

Director : Darnell Martin (Their Eyes Were Watching God, I Like It Like That)

Writers : Written and adapted for the screen by Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress)

Actors : Clifton Collins, Jr. and Kimberly Elise

Plot Description : Little Brother is set in the future, where courtrooms exist without human judges or juries, and automated justice is the law of the land.


Episode 5.) "Watchbird"

Director : Harold Becker (Sea of Love and Malice)

Writers : Sam Egan
Based on the short story by the legendary Robert Sheckley

Actors : Sean Astin and James Cromwell

Plot Description : In Watchbird, as society creates robotic droids to prevent killing before it takes place, they discover that all life depends on a fragile formula of killing and death.


Episode 6.) "The Discarded"

Director : Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: First Contact)

Writers : Written by Harlan Ellison and Josh Olson (A History of Violence)
Based on the short story by seven-time Hugo Award winner, three-time Nebula Award winner and Science Fiction Grand Master Laureate Harlan Ellison

Actors : Brian Dennehy, John Hurt and James Denton

Plot Description : This ultimate story of despised minorities sentenced to drift in the darkness of outer space forever. These men and women make a desperate pact in the hope of being offered refuge at home on Earth.


Scripts Owned For Possible Later Use:

"The Crystal Egg"
(Writer : Based on the story by H.G. Wells)

"Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed"
(Writer : Ray Bradbury to adapt his own story)

"The Hunt"
(Director : John Milius ; Writer : John Milius adapting the story by Stanislav Lem)

"The Last Question"
(Writer : Based on the story by Isaac Asimov)

Da li je bilo nešto od ovog projekta? Nigde pouzdane informacije.
(nisam baš dugo tragao, ali nema official web-site)

[Kastor]

Dodatak:
Snimljene su prve dve epizode, nijedna emitovana, snima se dalje.

[Ghoul]

zapazi da su režiseri sve neki levaci, sasvim nebitna imena.
zanimljivo pitanje bi bilo, ako je SF takava stub univerzuma kakvim ga boban, zstef i ostali prikazuju, zašto ne postoji nijedan bitniji režiser u istoriji filma koji se posvetio isključivo, ili barem pretežno, ovom jebenogenijalnonedostižnom žanru?

drugim rečima, gde su SF ekvivalenti argenta, bave, romera, carpentera, cronenberga, cravena...?

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Milijus nije levak ali zato "greje klupu".

[ginger toxiqo 2 gafotas]

...ja bih ipak sa poštovanjem prišao imenu JONATHANA FRAKESA, zbog CLOCKSTOPPERS i THUNDERBIRDS tulumbica

[Milosh]

...ja bih ipak sa poštovanjem prišao imenu JONATHANA FRAKESA, zbog CLOCKSTOPPERS i THUNDERBIRDS tulumbica

A ja bih se iz istog razloga zabrinuo. Taj Clockstoppers je doslovno najgori spoj tinejdžerskog filma i SF-a koji sam u životu video, gotovo negledljivo loše.

(a baš obećah sebi da ću prestati sa negativističko-hejterskim postovima na forumu...)

[Ghoul]

(a baš obećah sebi da ću prestati sa negativističko-hejterskim postovima na forumu...)

never stop, never stop!