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After it was recommended by Goatboy, then countless others, I asked someone to get it for me for Christmas.
It'a a really good read, and has aged incredibly well. Can see that it has been hugely influential. I really enjoyed the way he tried to research the problem (why crosses don't always work), and all of the stuff on isolation (urges, drinking, desparation) was fantastic...
Anyway, I'd heard that there was a script doing the rounds, even though it's already been adapted as a film twice. (I've not seen either version, but The Omega Man is on Sky Cinema on the 29th or something - apparently it's not that good, but it'll be interesting to see).
So I found this script at http://www.vampiremovies.co.uk/scripts.htm and it's awful. I'm not sure if this is the one that Arnols Schwarzaneggar was at one time attached to, or even the one that's been linked to Michael Bay and Will Smith, or if it's completely separate but, the few pages I read of it are absolutely awful.
Okay SPOILERS ahead!
It's set in 2002, and the vampires come about thanks to a scientificly develop virus that is supposed ot heal the body. I didn't read far enough to see if there is any mention of real vampires, but if not, that's crap.
Ben Cortman, the vampire that Robert Neville hunts for fun because he used to know him, the pathetic character that looks like Oliver Hardy - in this script he is the king of the vampires.
The ending has Robert saving a bunch of kids on a train, letting Cortman sink into sand, and getting the girl.
Nooooooooooooo! That is so not what the story was about! To have any kind of happy ending whatsoever completey ruins it!
It'a a really good read, and has aged incredibly well. Can see that it has been hugely influential. I really enjoyed the way he tried to research the problem (why crosses don't always work), and all of the stuff on isolation (urges, drinking, desparation) was fantastic...
Anyway, I'd heard that there was a script doing the rounds, even though it's already been adapted as a film twice. (I've not seen either version, but The Omega Man is on Sky Cinema on the 29th or something - apparently it's not that good, but it'll be interesting to see).
So I found this script at http://www.vampiremovies.co.uk/scripts.htm and it's awful. I'm not sure if this is the one that Arnols Schwarzaneggar was at one time attached to, or even the one that's been linked to Michael Bay and Will Smith, or if it's completely separate but, the few pages I read of it are absolutely awful.
Okay SPOILERS ahead!
It's set in 2002, and the vampires come about thanks to a scientificly develop virus that is supposed ot heal the body. I didn't read far enough to see if there is any mention of real vampires, but if not, that's crap.
Ben Cortman, the vampire that Robert Neville hunts for fun because he used to know him, the pathetic character that looks like Oliver Hardy - in this script he is the king of the vampires.
The ending has Robert saving a bunch of kids on a train, letting Cortman sink into sand, and getting the girl.
Nooooooooooooo! That is so not what the story was about! To have any kind of happy ending whatsoever completey ruins it!
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Yep, the song is based on the book.
Rob Zombie knows his horror genre
Rob Zombie knows his horror genre
'I Am Legend'? Isn't that a song by White Zombie?
Hurrah, you bought the book!
Although it's frightening that somebody actually listened to something I said...*shiver*
Yeah, Omega Man is awful, simply awful. He "fights" shiny albinos led by Anthony Zorbe. It sucks and has about 5% of the book kept in it.
Classic sci-fi/horror book.
I'm currently re-reading "Flowers for Algernon", another classic by Daniel Keyes
Although it's frightening that somebody actually listened to something I said...*shiver*
Yeah, Omega Man is awful, simply awful. He "fights" shiny albinos led by Anthony Zorbe. It sucks and has about 5% of the book kept in it.
Classic sci-fi/horror book.
I'm currently re-reading "Flowers for Algernon", another classic by Daniel Keyes
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> The sagacious one wrote:
> Yeah keep the bleak ending, it's emotive and brilliantly realised.
>
> amen.
>
> That's the first time I've seen the words 'Shading Grading' together.
> So you were one of those people that created 'shiny' drawings?
> Using so much lead that the picture looked like a mirror.
Yup. All my pictures were called "Reflective black". Once someone licked my desk for a bet and; ruined my life's work; suffered graphite poisoning; was struck by lightning 58 times in the next two years; produced a work of art by weeing onto a blank canvas; was attacked by two campers for weeing onto their tent.
> The sagacious one wrote:
> Yeah keep the bleak ending, it's emotive and brilliantly realised.
>
> amen.
>
> That's the first time I've seen the words 'Shading Grading' together.
> So you were one of those people that created 'shiny' drawings?
> Using so much lead that the picture looked like a mirror.
Yup. All my pictures were called "Reflective black". Once someone licked my desk for a bet and; ruined my life's work; suffered graphite poisoning; was struck by lightning 58 times in the next two years; produced a work of art by weeing onto a blank canvas; was attacked by two campers for weeing onto their tent.
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> Yeah, but no matter how much you want it to be, pictures of girls in
> various states of undress, in their bedrooms, using a zoom lens, is
> NOT art.
Through a nightsight?
(sniff) art is in the eye of the beholder (walks off in a huff with nose in the air)
Bwhahahahahahahahaha.
> Yeah, but no matter how much you want it to be, pictures of girls in
> various states of undress, in their bedrooms, using a zoom lens, is
> NOT art.
Through a nightsight?
(sniff) art is in the eye of the beholder (walks off in a huff with nose in the air)
Bwhahahahahahahahaha.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> Photography I can do, and seem to have an eye for it.
Yeah, but no matter how much you want it to be, pictures of girls in various states of undress, in their bedrooms, using a zoom lens, is NOT art.
> Photography I can do, and seem to have an eye for it.
Yeah, but no matter how much you want it to be, pictures of girls in various states of undress, in their bedrooms, using a zoom lens, is NOT art.
The sagacious one wrote:
> My artistic ability was limited to shading. Honest. The Art teacher
> used to praise my shading everytime I produced a piece of
> "art".
Heh, my Gcse grade estimate was an "n", and he told me to not bother doing the exam. I'm that bad.....
Photography I can do, and seem to have an eye for it. drawing / painting / anything else, forget it :)
> My artistic ability was limited to shading. Honest. The Art teacher
> used to praise my shading everytime I produced a piece of
> "art".
Heh, my Gcse grade estimate was an "n", and he told me to not bother doing the exam. I'm that bad.....
Photography I can do, and seem to have an eye for it. drawing / painting / anything else, forget it :)
The sagacious one wrote:
> Yeah keep the bleak ending, it's emotive and brilliantly realised.
amen.
That's the first time I've seen the words 'Shading Grading' together. So you were one of those people that created 'shiny' drawings? Using so much lead that the picture looked like a mirror.
> Yeah keep the bleak ending, it's emotive and brilliantly realised.
amen.
That's the first time I've seen the words 'Shading Grading' together. So you were one of those people that created 'shiny' drawings? Using so much lead that the picture looked like a mirror.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> I'll let him know. He's a professional artist, and earns three times
> as much as me a year. Swine. The artistic talent jumped me, and he
> got the lot.
My artistic ability was limited to shading. Honest. The Art teacher used to praise my shading everytime I produced a piece of "art". I think he was humouring me; maybe he thought I was a special needs kid and didn't want to offend anyone in possession of a sharp pencil. My shading grading was as follows: as hard as I could press without the pencil going through the paper, pressing hard enough so that the pencil went through the paper. I had to get the GCSE examiner to come to my school in person and assess my work at my desk or my art would be ruined...
> The basic storyline is the book but Cortman has been given a voice
> and followers (He's a silent and single agent in the book) but we are
> dropping the terrible screnplay ending more in favor of the books
> bleak ending (I'll not spoil it)
Yeah keep the bleak ending, it's emotive and brilliantly realised.
> I'll let him know. He's a professional artist, and earns three times
> as much as me a year. Swine. The artistic talent jumped me, and he
> got the lot.
My artistic ability was limited to shading. Honest. The Art teacher used to praise my shading everytime I produced a piece of "art". I think he was humouring me; maybe he thought I was a special needs kid and didn't want to offend anyone in possession of a sharp pencil. My shading grading was as follows: as hard as I could press without the pencil going through the paper, pressing hard enough so that the pencil went through the paper. I had to get the GCSE examiner to come to my school in person and assess my work at my desk or my art would be ruined...
> The basic storyline is the book but Cortman has been given a voice
> and followers (He's a silent and single agent in the book) but we are
> dropping the terrible screnplay ending more in favor of the books
> bleak ending (I'll not spoil it)
Yeah keep the bleak ending, it's emotive and brilliantly realised.
The sagacious one wrote:
> The sketches look fantastic ( and I don't give praise easily or post
> stuff on here that isn't me being "funny") and I'm sure
> that the book's themes (and possibly the screenplays) lend themselves
> to a dark, brooding and foreboding comic/graphic novel.
I'll let him know. He's a professional artist, and earns three times as much as me a year. Swine. The artistic talent jumped me, and he got the lot.
The basic storyline is the book but Cortman has been given a voice and followers (He's a silent and single agent in the book) but we are dropping the terrible screnplay ending more in favor of the books bleak ending (I'll not spoil it)
I'ts moving slow at the moment, so I dont know if it'll ever be complted as we are both seriously bogged down by deadlines, but who knows?
> The sketches look fantastic ( and I don't give praise easily or post
> stuff on here that isn't me being "funny") and I'm sure
> that the book's themes (and possibly the screenplays) lend themselves
> to a dark, brooding and foreboding comic/graphic novel.
I'll let him know. He's a professional artist, and earns three times as much as me a year. Swine. The artistic talent jumped me, and he got the lot.
The basic storyline is the book but Cortman has been given a voice and followers (He's a silent and single agent in the book) but we are dropping the terrible screnplay ending more in favor of the books bleak ending (I'll not spoil it)
I'ts moving slow at the moment, so I dont know if it'll ever be complted as we are both seriously bogged down by deadlines, but who knows?
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