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Ray Bradbury, 90, Is Still Chasing Martians

First Posted: 09/07/10 06:03 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:35 PM ET

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startribune.com:

The author of "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" is trying to develop film versions of both books. He's also working on a collection of short fiction to be published next year.

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09:50 PM on 09/09/2010
his politics aside, "Fahrenheit 451" was one of my favorite books, a timeless message that Bradbury himself, may have lost in his 90 years.
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
01:08 AM on 09/09/2010
As a number of posters have already noted, Francois Truffaut filmed "Fahrenheit 451" in 1966 starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. It was FT's only English-language movie. Really good one.
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02:46 PM on 09/08/2010
François Truffaut directed "Fahrenheit 451" (1966) which starred Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. It was a terrific film. Everyone should rent it or download it. I saw it in the theater when it was first released. Why do a remake? Re-release the original.
11:40 PM on 09/08/2010
Yes! I remember seeing that one in school. A lot of kids laughed at the style of it - but I always liked that one.
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mjeffn
Freedom's just another word 4 nothing left to lose
01:58 PM on 09/08/2010
I am as surprised to hear the R. Bradbury surrenders freely to faux news as I was when I first heard Christopher Hitchen's support Bush's neocon world view.
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marianproletarian
01:47 PM on 09/08/2010
There is already a Farenheit 451 movie.
12:22 PM on 09/08/2010
Ray Bradbury is tha man. Great, great author. Love him and what he's done in the sci-fi world. And he still writes every day. Amazing.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
10:58 AM on 09/08/2010
I could see re-making "The Martian Chronicles." It's really had justice done to it on film. The TV mini-series with Rock Hudson was really sad.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
11:00 AM on 09/08/2010
Meant to say "It's really NEVER had justice done to it on film."
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marianproletarian
01:49 PM on 09/08/2010
Yeah, that was bad.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
10:47 AM on 09/08/2010
I don't think one could do better than François Truffaut's 1966 film version of Fahrenheit 451 with Oskar Werner and Julie Cristie. It's a classic, Ray. Please leave it there.
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Knowbetter
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11:18 AM on 09/08/2010
Agreed. I have a copy on DVD at home.
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marianproletarian
01:49 PM on 09/08/2010
Yes.
senseandnonsense
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10:15 AM on 09/08/2010
I was hooked first on The Illustrated Man. Forty years later, I can now see the illustrated man on any street corner of America. But the tattoos don't move... or predict future events...
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
10:50 AM on 09/08/2010
Great post.
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DSOTM
Legalize it, now!
09:18 AM on 09/08/2010
If Hollywood is going to make a remake, let them redo Soylent Green and The Man Who Fell To Earth.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
10:55 AM on 09/08/2010
But TMWFTE is so deliciously bad! (sorry David, but you know it's true). I especially loved the VW mini-buses or whatever they were, dressed up to look like exotic alien vehicles. They couldn't remake it, because Bowie IS the Man Who Fell To Earth, and he's starting to look his age just a bit.
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DSOTM
Legalize it, now!
11:01 AM on 09/08/2010
Well, wish me luck, cause I've been working on a new screenplay to TMWFTE with a new twist.

I am hoping to get Duncan Jones to direct it, Davids son.
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MISTERUNCONVENTIONAL
The only attitude I've ever had is a bad one.
09:07 AM on 09/08/2010
The firemen are rarely necessary. The public stopped reading of its own accord.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
11:02 AM on 09/08/2010
Good point. Out with a whimper.
12:26 PM on 09/08/2010
The public stopped reading 'books.' I would venture to say that the rise of the internet probably has people reading more than ever.

Now the quality of what they read is in doubt, but reading isn't dying.

Also, on a related note, e-books didn't kill the novel, but it just might save it. I have an amazon kindle and read more now that I ever did.

I get your point, I just wanted to make a wee counter-argument that it may not be as bad as you think...
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MISTERUNCONVENTIONAL
The only attitude I've ever had is a bad one.
12:34 PM on 09/08/2010
And on the flip side we had a vice presidential candidate who couldn't name any newspapers or magazines she read.

How many literate people would VOTE for a clearly non-literate one.

It is written: "Those who do not CHOOSE to read are no better off than those who cannot."
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imfedup
Fight the lies.
08:45 AM on 09/08/2010
He's one of my favorites. I met him in the 70's/early 80's, and he signed my copy of Dandelion Wine. I need to find that book . . .
12:28 PM on 09/08/2010
I envy you. I would love to meet him. Sorry to say that I have been waiting for the inevitable news anytime now. The guy is 90 after all. I hope he lives to at least 100 tho...

All the great pulp guys are a dying breed...
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imfedup
Fight the lies.
01:57 PM on 09/08/2010
Dandelion Wine is incredible, if you haven't read it. So is Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
12:40 AM on 09/09/2010
We're fortunate here in southern Calif., because he lives out here and gives lots of talks and book-signings all the time. But, if you really want to meet him, go to the Comic-Con in San Diego in July. He goes every year. This year, I had just gotten done asking a bookseller at Comic-Con if he knew if Ray Bradbury had been around, when I turned to go and almost tripped over Ray B's wheelchair.
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dmsdzinr
Progression wit a twist of sarcasm.
07:58 AM on 09/08/2010
Ray Bradbury is a National Treasure! It saddens me that he will be gone from this earth, in the not too distant future.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
11:02 AM on 09/08/2010
Unless......
12:29 PM on 09/08/2010
I know. Everytime I see his name in the news, I thing the worst. I hope he holds out though and just decides not to go...:)
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Tom Sutpen
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11:13 PM on 09/07/2010
Problem with adapting 'The Martian Chronicles' is that it's a book of loosely connected short stories. Carving a single narrative out of it necessitates losing a great deal of its cumulative impact; and as the lumpy mass of story that was the late-70s Television adaptation demonstrated, integrating it all is damn near impossible.

Truffaut's 1966 film of 'Farenheit 451' is brilliant (easily his most underrated film). A remake would be pointless.
senseandnonsense
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10:12 AM on 09/08/2010
I agree with you about the Truffaut film. Why not just re-release it to theaters and see what happens?
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Tom Sutpen
A for-real Socialist
10:23 AM on 09/08/2010
Well, it's been on DVD for quite a while now; and if Universal did re-release it, it would only be booked in a handful of theaters.
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Knute
12:46 PM on 09/08/2010
Coming soon to an IMAX near you:

FARENHEIT 451: 3-D!!!!!
08:37 PM on 09/07/2010
Compos Mentis and Caveat Emptor!

I a world where assumptions and biases are the norm... Some falsities and memes are very difficult to dissolve!
If he is wanting to truly WAKE UP the sheeple rather than just entertain, then he might want to correct the temperature first 451 Celcius

Come on... Tell the truth...
Did you ever check if Farenheit 451 was correct for book burning or just not question it because it was on the cover of a well sold book?
When you did check the facts was it from people who actually checked the facts of just regurgitated the myth? ;-)
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09:16 AM on 09/08/2010
Yes. And it's true. My guess is that you've never bothered to check.

But still, even if it weren't true, then it wouldn't take any meaning away from the book.
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Sir Guy Grand
A little bit of the old pause...
11:20 AM on 09/08/2010
Never got beyond the cover?