Casting news for Andromeda Strain

The '71 movie was excellent! I never read the book, though.

I'll check out the mini series but I've never been a fan of remaking movies that were excellent to begin with.

Saw the movie and read the book, both pretty good.

I just may watch this.

"I can't think of any other film adaptation that was as close to the book than this one was."


' Being There ' novel by jerzy kozinski... movie starring peter sellers... i think is the benchmark for film adaptation

Actually Borat & Akbar, the original film is one of the VERY few movies that was almost perfectly adapted from the book. There were basically only two slight changes made and nothing left out in the original film. They made one of the scientists a woman instead of having an all male team and then had lasers instead of curare darts to track escaped animals in the core. I can't think of any other film adaptation that was as close to the book than this one was.

I really am praying that this turns out well. It has all the right ingredients, down to the director and producers but that doesn't always mean much in the end. I loved this book and it made me a Crichton fan for life. I'm afraid that by adding an additional two hours to the timeline that the pacing will suffer. One of the strong points of the original was the sense of urgency to solve what Andromeda was. By adding this much filler to the story, I believe they will be unable to sustain the level of tension the way the book and original film did so well. Otherwise I agree wholeheartedly that most adaptations need far more time for plot and character development. I just don't see it being that necessary with this one. It's been proven otherwise.

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Andre Braugher and Benjamin Bratt alone make me interested in this thing but add in Daniel Dae Kim? Awesome.

This is a remake/retelling I am 100% behind. Updating the story with some more modern science and it can still be great. I agree with Borat, I wish we could see more books as mini-series (or even a 13 episode season) instead of tepid movies that barely scratch the surface of a book.

I've always thought that book adaptations would be better as a mini-series rather than as a movie.