Subject: Re: Perhaps an animated version of Heinlein's "Citizen of the
Galaxy".
On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:47:27 -0700, a425couple wrote:
view it all at: https://screenrant.com/citizen-of-the-galaxy-animated-movie-development-
details/
director Jay Olivia is now helming an animated adaptation of Citizen of
the Galaxy. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film will
follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the
galaxy at large.. To be penned by Red Sonja's Luke Lieberman, the film
will follow a young slave whose destiny will see him go on to shape the galaxy at large.
I thought this post would be about your own suggestion that it would be a
nice project to have happen.
So I was all ready to criticize your idea by saying that I didn't think it likely such a thing could ever be made - unless it was a complete travesty
of the source material, hardly related to it at all except in name.
But since it's a real project... I have to add some things...
a) I'm still afraid that this is what might happen, but if serious people
are really trying to do it, that is a good sign, indicating at least a *possibility* what I fear may be avoided, but
b) Come to think of it, this has already happened once in real life,
although with a live-action movie. Apologies to anyone reading this post
who had managed to make himself forget Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers".
If one is tasked with making a film adaptation of a novel which one
believes to be an apologia for fascism, and one rightly believes fascism
to be wicked, then doing what Verhoeven did to the book, making his movie based on it into an indictment of fascism, is the right and moral thing to
do. So I do not fault his morals, I fault his reading comprehension.
In a Star Trek novel, there is a moment where, after looking at the mirror universe version of Shakespeare... he declines to look at the mirror
universe version of the Bible. On my list of alternate universe movies not
to watch... is one where The Lord of the Rings recieves the Verhoeven treatment.
John Savard
John Savard
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