Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!denelcor!lmc From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: authors and films Message-ID: <320@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 23:56:51 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.320 Posted: Wed Feb 8 23:56:51 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:34:56 EST References: <597@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO Lines: 35 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. -- Lyle McElhaney (hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc