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Re:Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after the... by bonestamp2 on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:41PM (#23796849)
I'm sure a lot of us are looking forward to it -- it's good source material, but there's no guarantee that they will pull it off well, or that even if they do a great job, that it will be a hit.
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Re:Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after the... by bawolff on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:27PM (#23797810)
Its pretty terrible source material if your trying to make a mainstream hit.

The foundation is great, but its not your traditional laser-battle big budget mainstrean action-sf thingy.

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Re:Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after the... by hardwaregeek on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:41PM (#23797939)
Yeah the thesis of the books (well until the Mule) is that no one person makes a big difference and it's all due to larger historical forces. Although it'd be hilarious if we follow a hero only for the show to conclude with "welp guess macro effects in galactic trade are really what caused the Empire to fall"
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Re:Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after the... by Marsymars on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:51PM (#23799312)
Kinda off-topic, but I recently read The Last Astronaut[1], and got the sense that it could make a great movie adaptation, which I almost never get from sci-fi books.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40881567-the-last-astron...

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