Wait, that was Barbet Schroeder. You're thinking of maybe Drowning by Numbers.
Yeah, that's the one.
Also, for no reason at all, I happened to be reading Clancy Brown's bio, and I stumbled across this little factoid that made me smile:
Although his character Rawhide dies in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" (1984), Brown is still under contract to appear in a sequel to the film.
I wonder if it's true. I'd really love to see a sequel get off the ground, and I'd love to see him in it.
Sean ... there has been talk of a sequel for years. There was even talk of a tv series 2 or 3 years ago but nothing has come of it ... yet.
By story you mean the conglomeration of the nine?
Any combination you want. There's more than nine anyway. Asimov wrote a lot of robot stories. The Bicentennial Man was also one of his robot stories. In all of them the three laws worked the same way.
I thought the original screenplay was just basically Asimov-verse fanfic.
There's also a screenplay that was written by Harlan Ellison that was under consideration for a while, but never produced. He eventually released it in book form. I have a copy of it, but have never got around to reading it.
There's more than nine anyway.
I was only talking about I, Robot.
Nobody dies permanently in the Banzaiverse.
Well, "inspired by" usually refers to a true story.
Except it was used for The Iliad in
Troy,
wasn't it? I've seen it used on novels too, where the adaptation was especially unfaithful.
I think there must be formal guild rules, related to the legal rights, that get wrangled out based on percentage of material used or something, or else they'd all use the same phrase, right?
Sean ... there has been talk of a sequel for years. There was even talk of a tv series 2 or 3 years ago but nothing has come of it ... yet.
Oh, I know. I keep hoping a real project will gel, though.
I was only talking about I, Robot.
Yeah, but the rest of the stories take place in the same universe, and even feature the same characters, so if the screenwriters are claiming this is the tenth story, they're too late. Asimov wrote it years ago. And the eleventh. And the twelfth...
Except it was used for The Iliad in Troy, wasn't it?
Wasn't the Iliad inspired by a true story?
Yeah, I read...I think there's an "official" Banzai Institute site out there, or maybe it was an interview with Earl Mac Rauch...that Rawhide was, ahem, "mostly dead" and Professor Hikita did something to save him, or one of the Adders produced an antidote or something.
