I'm telling you, guys... Mark my words... The next big craze to sweep Hollywood will be Golden Age pulp sci-fi and space opera. Retro-futurism's about to come back in style, what with Sky Captain and a possible Buck Rogers movie on the way.
This frustrates me to no end, b/c for the past five years I've been working on a space opera screenplay that kind of channels the spirits of E. E. "Doc" Smith, Philip Nowlan, A. E. van Vogt, Jack Williamson, and James L. Schmitz... Lots of rocket-ships, space pirates, bug-eyed aliens, astro-cities and ray-guns. I know, I know, it's been done a thousand times before, but it's just such a fun genre to play in... Of course, I have no illusions about ever actually SELLING the screenplay to Hollywood. I'm 100% positive it sucks. But by the time I'm finished and actually ready to show it to people, the Retro-Futurism fad will have already come and gone, making me look like I just jumped onto the band-wagon to cash in on the latest trend. Oh, well.
Maybe someday God will grant my most fervent wish and let me produce/direct the Lensman saga for the silver screen. Aaaaaaah, dreams...
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