Comments on: Justin Marks Writing New Children of Men-Style Sci-Fi Film

By: Screenplay Junkie #3: Who the Hell is Justin Marks? - Film Junk

Screenplay Junkie #3: Who the Hell is Justin Marks? - Film Junk — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:18:08 +0000

[...] Marks recently announced that he’s shopping around an untitled big-budget SF script which he describes as thematically similar to Children of Men. Marks had this to say about the [...]

By: Floppy

Floppy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:21:11 +0000

*The Foundation Trilogy or The Robot Series, not of, I apologize.

By: Floppy

Floppy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:18:47 +0000

I’d like to see some faithful adaptations of Isaac Asimov’s books. I would particularly like to see The Foundation Trilogy of The Robot Series brought to the big screen. Some William Gibson (like the long rumored Neuromancer movie), Neal Stephenson, or Rudy Rucker adaptations would be pretty great as well.

By: orange cinema

orange cinema — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:56:37 +0000

absolutely, nowadays it is often difficult to differentiate between the two. though i don’t remember any horor elements in Sunshine until the third act when the killer/captain shows up. before then, what parts are you thinking of?

By: vadmspartan

vadmspartan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:54:14 +0000

It really is hard to find a good hard SF movie these days. Being generally expensive and complex it’s somewhat hard to market these films.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:55:33 +0000

and yes, I realize space station and rockets are also real. haha.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:54:14 +0000

It seems to me that a lot of people have been missing a really simple fact that all the latest “comic book” movies are indeed sci-fi/action movies at their heart. The source material is based in comic books, but they’re not just straight die-hard adaptations. The REAL trend in current sci-fi film-making (according to box office revenue and marketing muscle) is a lot closer to sci-fi/action than it is to sci-fi/horror. there’s a bit of fantasy thrown in from time to time, but they always seem to base the origin of superheroes around some kind of pseudo science. It may be flimsy and less mentally stimulating than a more well thought out sci-fi like 2001 or Contact (Carl Sagan rocks!), but gamma radiation, and super strength exo-suits are science fiction as much as space stations and rockets.

By: Gorman

Gorman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:19:55 +0000

I’m sorry. I can’t respect this guy’s ideas when he has written a Street Fighter movie without Ryu and Ken. Last time I saw something that stupid it was called Birds of Prey.

I totally agree that since Alien, everything has been sci-fi bordering on murder mystery. Hmmm Mission to Mars, Red Planet, Sunshine… could we get a sci-fi movie with aliens who aren’t assholes like us? (ID4, War of the Worlds). I think they are just too scared of being to close to Kubrick.

Frankly I am embarassed to say I had He-Man figures and I don’t thing you can make a gem from a turd… unless you squeeze real tight…

By: Raerth

Raerth — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:51:24 +0000

Marcel, the basic premise of a film does not indicate the potential of the plot.

“Man in prison plans escape” could be any number of bad films, but also the premise for Shawshank Redemption.

Children of Men had a well structured plot which suited the needs of the film, was not style over substance unlike far too many releases.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:36:07 +0000

The actual story of Children of Men just lives because of the fantastic camera work and direction. The long shots are just fantastic. But the story? Getting a pregnant girl out of a fascist country? Hmm - the characters were very good, though :)

By: Panda

Panda — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:24:00 +0000

Yeah, they have. Example: Sunshine. Awesome concept.. but with horror. -__-’

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:10:50 +0000

I agree with you Chen, what a surprising lack of fail in your post.
We really do need fresh takes on Sci fi, everything is either horror or based on something already existant.

By: Cotantinos Sozou

Cotantinos Sozou — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:05:37 +0000

sounds pretty interesting…

hmmm… children of men syle? meaning 6 minute shots? 18 year olds as youngest people? hitting people off motorbikes by smashing them with car doors?… lol