State of the Rendezvous--Beeb goes SF

[matgb]

Woo Hoo!: BBC radio is to launch a major cross-station drama season based around the science fiction genre, which will see BBC 7 broadcast its biggest original series commission to date

Comments

[pmoodie]

Ooh, excellent. It's about time someone adapted some of Banks's science-fiction.

I hope someone will do a film one day, but radio will do in the meantime. :)

[matgb]

I'm guessing an TV presentation would cost a large fortune before it even started.

Having said that, watching the animated Star Trek at the moment, and that's rather nice.

[pmoodie]

Oh, it would cost a bloody fortune to do Banksy's sci-fi justice, no question about that. And I think it's probably enyond the scope of a telly production. His stuff is so epic that I'd like to see it in the cinema. Consider Phlebas would make a great film. Mind you, if it was madee in Hollywood, I'm sure the first thing they'd do would be to change the title...

[davegodfrey]

The only way I would try it is lots of CGI, and bluescreen a la Sky Captain. Puppets for the Chelgrians and co.

I think a serial would be the best way to go, you'd cut too much out with a single film.

[matgb]

Double ace-see edit.

[anonymous]

Awesome! In other news, work is dead and i miss my mat :(

[ginasketch]

Yay!

Also- there's mulled wine in the shops already.

Radio + mulled wine= GOOD TIMEZ

[karohemd]

Cool! I need to read more Banks.

[matgb]

No. EVERYONE needs to read more Banks.

[pmoodie]

I'm reading Matter at the moment. It's good. :)

[eldar]

State Of The Art != Culture. It's entirely standalone. And therefore an excellent choice.

[ninebelow]

Um, yes it is. It even shares some characters with Use Of Weapons.

[matgb]

Danke, I was worried my memory had done it's silly daft tricks again.

[pmoodie]

I also have trouble remembering if some of the books are Culture or not.

For instance, I can't remember for the life of me if The Agebraist is! But I do remember that it was damn good. :)