re: #64 Dr Lizardo

Well, Denis Villeneuve’s next project is supposed to be Rendezvous with Rama, which is pretty cerebral sci-fi. Not too many ways to turn that one into a CGI action spectacular along the lines of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

Yeah, color me skeptical. A lot of hard scifi adaptations have ended up as either popcorn flicks or been consigned to indefinite internment in Development Hell. The few that have avoided those fates have ended up doing middling to poorly in theaters as they either get dumped during slow periods or put up against blockbuster franchises to wither on the vine.

The days of films like 2001 doing major bank are long gone.