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From: dls@hocse.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: faithful SF films
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Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 15:26:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 27 15:26:23 1984
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Here is a response from another off-net friend of mine concerning
the orginal posting of SF films faithful to the novels.

>    ecl is a little confused about THINGS TO COME in its various forms.
>    There is a book called THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME by H. G. Wells.
>    It is non-fiction and is speculation about the future.  Wells then
>    wrote a screenplay for a story set in this future to be filmed by
>    Alexander Korda.  That was the film THINGS TO COME.  The screenplay
>    is also available, so there really is a book called THINGS TO COME,
>    but it is merely the screenplay of the film.  The film does diverge
>    from the screenplay occasionally, but in general they are pretty
>    close as one would expect.  The characters and the story of the
>    film do not appear in the book.  There is also a lousy Flash Gordon
>    imitation that had the gall to call itself H. G. WELLS' THE SHAPE
>    OF THINGS TO COME, but in spite of a character being named Cabal,
>    it has nothing to do with the earlier film or any book by Wells.
>    That film was made in Canada about 1979.
>					    Mark Leeper
>					    hocse!lznv!mrl