Off Clancy Brown and SF Books or Moives?

[William Duffy]

>>And indeed - Clancy Brown
>>gets to play a good guy!  </amazement>
>>Cheers,
>>Rich.
>
>Clancy also played a good guy in Buckaroo Bonzai...
>
And in that TV show Earth 2.
>
>>Thrillers are another genre where several successful films have come
>from books.  I haven't seen many of these, but examples like The
>Fugitive
>come to mind.
>
>>SF though, doesn't do so well.  Why is this?
>
>>Some reasons that I can think of:
>
>
>All valid reasons too.  I think its the nature of the beast.  Get a
>great SF book and read it.  The story unfolds within you, you make your
>own interpretations, paint your own landscape.  Give the same book to
>Hollywood and Industrial Light and Magic takes this vital element out of
>your grasp and places it firmly in the hands of the director, et al.
>Now your stuck with someone elses imagination.  Tie this into the lowest
>common denominator and viola, you'll never please everyone.
>
The only SF novel that adapted well to the screen that I can think of at
this moment in time, is Time Machine.

William