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longship

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21. "Something Wicked this way Comes" is Ray Bradbury.

Tue Jan 24, 2017, 06:42 PM

Jan 2017

I've never read it, however it was first a screenplay, then later a published story when Bradbury's attempts to get a production together failed. Unfortunately, the eventual resulting film was produced by fucking Disney which took the edge off the plot because it would hurt their family values. Poor Disney snowflakes. (This according to Wiki.)

I've never seen the film either.

There has been word that Cat's Cradle will be filmed, but I have not seen that such a project is in the works. I guess we'll have to be satisfied with the only Vonnegut novel to be filmed, Slaughterhouse Five, which I rather like.

No hope for a cinematic Sirens of Titan. I suspect chronosynclastic infundibulum does not translate well to celluloid.

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"Something Wicked this way Comes" is Ray Bradbury. longship Jan 2017 #21

I have been corrected. See reply 18 TexasProgresive Jan 2017 #22

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