David Fincher's Rendezvous with Rama Officially Dead

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Is The Fincher/Freeman RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA Project Stillborn??
Published 10/13/2008 by Merrick at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
... RAMA. And, for years, we've heard passing allusions to the project...and little hints that development might be sputtering forward. firstshowing.net caught up with Fincher, and pressed him for further details. Sadly, though, the outlook doesn't ems good at the moment. "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." ...says Fincher in THIS DISCUSSION with FirstShowing. I've dreamed of seeing a movie version of this book since ...

I Am Link
Published 10/13/2008 by jadams77@gmail.com (JA) at my new plaid pants
... --- Speaking Of Auteur Snags, David Fincher's adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama appears to be undeniably and reliably dead. ...

Fincher says Rendezvous With Rama dead
Published 10/13/2008 at Filmstalker
... [image] ), the story of the arrival of a mammoth spaceship within our solar system and man's journey to investigate it, and Freeman has been trying to bring it to the big screen for a good while. The project has been through a torrid past and according to David Fincher it's got a long way to go yet. According to First Showing he said: “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...it's a very intellectual science fiction film, ...

David Fincher’s Rendezvous With Rama is Not Happening
Published 10/13/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... on a script, with preliminary plans to shoot the film using performance-capture. Our friends at First Showing got a chance to speak with Fincher over the weekend, and the director confirmed that the project will probably never happen. ...

Movie Hopping: October 14, 2008
Published 10/14/2008 by James Cook at TheMovingPicture.net
... In a recent interview with First Showing, David Fincher revealed that his adaptation of the Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama is “probably not going to happen”. >> More ...

David Fincher Will Not Go Into Space
Published 10/14/2008 at Cinema Blend News
David Fincher Will Not Go Into Space It’s not quite as bad to learn that a movie project is dead if you never knew it was alive in the first place. Did you know there was a plan for David Fincher to direct an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s science-fiction novel, “Rendezvous with Rama?” Me, either. Well, now that I’ve gotten your hopes up with that information, let me dash it by saying that it ain’t gonna happen. The guys over at First Showing interviewed Fincher at a The Curious Case of Benjamin Button junket, where he put the kibosh on this particular science-fiction ...

No ‘Rendezvous with Rama’ for Fincher?
Published 10/14/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
... Firstshowing.net recently talked to the helmer and asked him about the status of the adaptation, which was supposed to star Morgan Freeman. Sad to say, Fincher believes it’s not going to happen anytime soon. ...