David Fincher’s Rendezvous with Rama Officially Dead
Hollywood Newsroom is now Buzz Newsroom! Visit and bookmark our new site. Buzz is bigger and better, including sports, world news, gadgets and the entertainment news that you're used to. Same staff, just more stuff! Why Fark, Drudge and Huffington when you can Buzz!?I really don’t think we’ll ever see this adaptation get out of production hell. Our San Francisco correspondent Marco Cerritos caught up with David Fincher over the weekend at another Benjamin Button presentation. While his interview will be published in a few days, we were anxious to find out any updates on his Rendezvous with Rama project. As a recap, “Rendezvous with Rama” is a book written by sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke that has been on the production slate for years. David Fincher was the most recent director attached, which meant there was a potential that one of my very favorite directors would tackle a highly praised sci-fi epic. Unfortunately the project is officially dead in the water… again.
Fincher told Marco that, “It looks like it’s not going to happen. There’s no script and as you know, [Morgan Freeman's] not in the best of health right now. We’ve been trying to do it but it’s probably not going to happen.” Freeman has actually been the frontrunner on this adaptation from the start. He first took an interest back in 2000 and has been trying to get funding ever since. As everyone most likely knows, he was hurt in a car crash back in August. In an update from Freeman last year, he confessed that “it’s a very intellectual science fiction film, a very difficult book to translate cinematically.” And while Fincher said he was attached, he now confirms that a script never came together and that it’s officially dead.
- from Firstshowing