Recently announced, David Fincher to direct “Rendezvous with Rama” an Arthur C. Clarke Novel revolving around a group of human explorers are selected and dispatched to intercept a thirty-mile-long cylindrical starship, which was detected traveling on a course to pass through our solar system, in an attempt to discover it’s purpose, ascertain if there is any threat to Earth, and answer the mysterious questions regarding it’s origins and purpose. Because all extant names for Roman and Greek gods have been used on other newly-discovered celestial objects at this point, the Hindu god Rama is used in naming the object.
Rendezvous with Rama is seen to be Arthur C. Clarke’s best work after
2001: A Space Odessey
The Screenplay is written by Scott Brick, Andrew Khang, Bruce C. Mckenna and Stel Pavlou. Lori McCreary is the Producer and the only cast member announced so far is Morgan Freeman.
Should be interesting for Sci-Fi fans. I’d like to see this one, especially if it’s executed under the hand of David Fincher.
A film adaptation of the 1922 short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
It’s a story around an 80-year-old man (Brad Pitt) who is born aging backwards, causing complications when he falls in love with a 30 year old woman (Cate Blanchett). Fincher said, “It’s dark, it’s romantic, and it also deals with mortality in a pretty unflattering way. The guy is born in 1919 – with the film itself beginning in World War I, traveling around the world and carrying on all the way through to the year 2000.”
Okay, the story-line is a bit confusing… but it’s got my attention. I’m a fan of the director and the actors. David Fincher has worked before with Brad Pitt in Fight Club, and Cate and Brad worked together in Babel. From watching Cate’s performance in Elizabeth (1 & 2) and Brad’s performance in The Assassination of Jesse James, they are both very mature actors and definitely bring any story to life with amazing emotion and reality.
This is David Fincher’s seventh film, and has a cameo by Pitt’s daughter Shiloh. The film will be released December 19, 2008.