>>From Cinescape Online's Insider column:
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>Goyer Does 'Phoenix'
>David Goyer (Blade) has been hired by Angry Films to
>adapt Harlan Ellision's sci-fi novel Phoenix Without Ashes
>for the big screen. Produced by Goyer and Don Murphy, the
>project is being thought of as an event film for Sony,
>according to Variety. Apparently studio head John Calley's
>enjoyment of Goyer's Evermere script was influential in his
>landing the Phoenix job.
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>The futuristic novel follows the only living human who knows
>that civilization now exists within a gigantic spacecraft filled
>with 400 biospheres. Everyone else just thinks they're on a
>world, apparently, but this guy knows the truth. Problem?
>The ship is headed right into the middle of a star, and
>everyone is going to die if he isn't able to give a convincing
>history lesson to the rest of humankind.
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>Goyer told the trade that Phoenix, which he compares to
>2001: A Space Odyssey, is "about humanity and what
>makes us human."
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>This is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, there are the legal
>issues involved--wouldn't the producers possibly have to pay rights to the
>"creative" team behind THE STARLOST? And given that the film hasn't even
>been written, let alone made, the most interesting aspect of the story to
>me is THE STARLOST connection which the Cinescape "insider" apparently
>wasn't even aware of! Gawd, I feel old (or at least middle-aged). Dennis
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