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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: authors and films
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 23:56:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 23:56:51 1984
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Yes, Isaac wrote the book Fantastic Voyage after the movie was allready in
filming.  Let me quote his autobiography.....

"A science fiction movie was in the process of being made, named Fantastic
Voyage...Bantam books had obtained the paperback rights and they got in touch
with me to do the job. $5000, no royalties.

I turned down the proposal out of hand. Hackwork, I said. Beneath my dignity.

But they kept after me...When enough flattery had been expended, I agreed
to read the screenplay. That was fatal, for I liked it, and felt the urge
to write it. More exactly, I didn't want anyone else to write it, because
there was going to be a chance to use a lot of anatomy and physiology and
I was afraid that anyone else at Bantam would ruin it.

One thing bothered me. The ending, as it was to appear in the movie, was
fatally flawed.  The crew had to get out of the body in one hour because the
miniatuization only lasted that long. Expansion would kill the patient, of
course. The crew did get out, but the submarine was left inside.

I explained to Jaffe: "I have to change the ending. It leaves the submarine
inside The sub will expand and kill the patient.

"But the sub has been eaten by a white blood cell."

"So it expands inside the white cell."

"But the submarine was digested."

............

Sounds like some of the arguments current on net.misc.
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		Lyle McElhaney
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