In his periodic e-mail newsletter, bad signal, Warren Ellis writes:
In the excellent book on 60’s/70’s Hollywood, EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS, a conversation with the EXORCIST director William Friedkin is reported, that took place immediately after he saw STAR WARS. Friedkin, who had just completed the difficult SORCERER, turned to Jeanne Moreau and said, “I dunno, sweet little robots and stuff, maybe we’re on the wrong horse.”
Elsewhere in the film world, I discover that apparently Morgan Freeman is at work on an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Rendezvous With Rama. David Fincher, who is slated to direct, describes it as “what it would be like if five satellite repairmen rather than scientists had first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.”
Now I guess I finally have to read it.