Some interesting films in the list but personally, I'm tired of zombies and vampires.

http://io9.com/5921089/upcoming-science-...els-or-prequels

I think I'm most excited about "Enders Game".

Ready Player One already has a movie option? Wow. Is a good book though.

A little bleak. I wish they would drop the graphic novels and go with more actual sci fi novels. Neuromancer is great news, but I won't hold my breath until it's in production with a good cast and crew. PLEASE don't have Keanu!
We Mortals Are and Oblivion might be really good, if they don't get too Cruise'd up.

Sure is a lot of zombie material. I love The Walking Dead, but that's enough of that genre for me.

Robopocalypse with Spielberg could be good, despite a B movie title. Might check out the book.

Having read the excellent 'Mortal Engines' books by Philip Reeve,I was surprised to see the possibility of a movie directed by Peter Jackson.
Fingers crossed he does the books justice.

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There's another Riddick movie coming up I'm looking forward to, I know it's technically a sequel but the prior two were pretty different from one another and it's not really "Hollywood" (which I guess is the primary complaint).

And yes, after the success of Walking Dead it looks like we're in for a year or two of copycatting. Zombies are the new Vampires.

Really enjoyed WWZ, I suspect I shall dislike the movie if (as it sounds) they're having screenplay troubles.

It's slated for a first quarter 2013 release. I'm really looking forward to seeing Katee Sackhoff again.

I hate it when people lump sci-fi in with fantasy, zombies and vampires.
Real sci-fi belongs in an entirely different altitude of literature. But
as almost no real sci-fi has ever made it to the screen (unmolested), I
suppose we have to suffer this persistence of ignorance.

Looks like the sci-fi candidates on this list are Neuromancer, Ender's Game,
and Snow Crash. Period.

Completely agree pv1 and you hit the nail on the head about why all of those genres are lumped into one category. Almost all of the shows on SyFy now aren't even science fiction and if you pick up any magazine like SciFi Now, you'll see that over half the stuff that is talked about is fantasy, zombies, vampires, etc.


The fundamental problem I think is that having hard scifi in a category by itself would be too small and wouldn't draw the interest of the mainstream audience.

Easy answer: "real" sci-fi is ill-suited to film.

You want to take a several hundred page novel and distill it down to a 120 page script, large parts of which are stage direction, but NOT lose all the intricacies and subtle ideas? Not going to happen. At the very least, those books have dialogue which isn't kept for "mainstream audiences" because it's too "dry", and many concepts are simply written while a film must show it either visually or via dialogue and sometimes that just won't work.

Short stories work great because to take a 40 page story and make it a 120 page script you don't have to leave anything out...and you probably need to add very little either.

Comics work great for the same reason. Make a novel of a comic and you'll see it's very short.

I'll bet the lives of every person on Earth that fans of the Ender's Game novel will moan and gnash their teeth over the omissions and changes the film is going to have. It's unavoidable.



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I think all of the genres are getting lumped into one category because they have been crossbred so much no one knows what to call them now. The latest pop culture meme seems to be that creativity = mixing the refrigerator magnets around to yield some new combination of genres ie: Cowboys vs. Aliens, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire hunter or the latest Indian Jones travesty. It's as if Hollywood got its hand on some Mad Libs book of screenwriting and an unlimited supply of erasers.

Anyway, Neuromancer and Snow Crash both look very interesting. They both boast great source novels and directors with some promise: Splice was a daring film (perhaps a little too daring...it bumped up against biological taboos so hard it induced giggling in the audience) and Attack the Block was simply huge fun.

Ender's Game is a feature length twilight zone episode...I'm less optimistic about it. But it is certainly a movie for our time.

I'd like to see a little more old-fashioned space opera. The optimistic space travel flicks of days past seems to have been drowned in a sea of earthbound dystopias.

The new Battlestar Galactica was at least a spacebound dystopia.

The sad part is that when Enders Game finally makes it to the big screen, they will give away the ending with the trailers.

Splice had it going up until that point, then just got comical for a few minutes.