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[thecraggus]

Golden Years (1991) Review

Golden Years (1991) Review King sets out the template for the X-Files to follow. For a story about a man growing younger, Golden Years somehow manages to make you feel older by the minute.... #thecraggus #stephentolkin #sciencefiction #edlauter #stephenroot #harrietsansomharris #philiplenkowsky #keithszarabajka #johnrothman #margomartindale #michaelgornick #televisionreview #billraymond #grahampaul #hailtotheking #francessternhagen #kennethfink #stephenking #timguinee #rdcall #blogging #goldenyearsreview #erikking #allencoulter #felicityhuffman #goldenyears #mattmalloy #1991 click link to read more Read the full article

[lacommunarde]

How close we were to getting a The Demolished Man (or any Bester for that matter!) movie! #Repost @tdnguyen2000 (@get_repost) ・・・ Stephen Tolkin on Demolished Man: "It was 1985. I had just adapted A. E. Van Vogt's Slan for MGM and a producer named Sidney Beckerman and his son Barry. Our executive on the project moved to CBS Films, where Demolished Man was in development, with Barry Beckerman producing. Because we had all just had a good time working together they sent me the book, I read and loved it, then went in and pitched my ideas and got the job. A simpler path than most! Just when I finished the script CBS Films stopped functioning as an entity and for the next thirteen years the script was an effective writing sample for further work, but nothing more. Then, completely out of the blue, after the first Mission:Impossible movie came out and was a big hit, Sherry Lansing, then head of Paramount, asked Brian de Palma what he wanted to do next, and he said "I want to direct Stephen Tolkin's draft of Demolished Man." I was stunned when I heard this; I had never met De Palma and to this date have no idea why he would want to direct my version of the story rather than his own, or even how he ever came to read it. So Paramount hired me to rewrite the script but for some reason they chose not to do it under De Palma's supervision -- which would have a been fun, I think -- and it never really came together; whatever the flaws are in my 1985 version, the 1998 version represented at best lateral, and most likely backward, movement." #thedemolishedman #alfredbester #briandepalma #stephentolkin https://www.instagram.com/p/B5q2naKFnkJ/?igshid=upvpof9yaikk