Several attempts to adapt Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End into a film or miniseries have been made with varying levels of success. Philip DeGuere developed a script in the late 1970s for Universal and in this interview he gives some details regarding the pre-production of the project.
Interviews with screenwriters Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, industrial designer Syd Mead, production designer Lawrence C. Paull and director Ridley Scott. Articles & Interviews by Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier for Starlog magazine, November 1992 issue.
Behind the scenes of Douglas Trumbulls’s new movie ‘Brainstorm’
The domestication of fire was the key development that separated hominids from the rest of the animal kingdom, enabled them to live in hostile environments and spurred the development of language and agriculture. Through this brilliant exercise in backward extrapolation, we get a glimpse of what it might have been like, 80,00 years ago.
Blade Runner (1982), review by Norman Spinrad for Starlog magazine, November 1982 Issue
Hampton Fancher believes ‘Blade Runner’, at its heart, is a love story between Rick Deckard and Rachael.
The Making of “Alien”. Interview with director Ridley Scott. Published in ‘Starlog’ n. 26, September 1979
In this “Special Preview” Bob Martin interviews Dan O’Bannon, the first screenwriter of Alien.
With unflinching honesty, the author of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” discusses its cinematic adaptation and the shock of reading the original screenplay, which made him think that he had died and been condemned to eternal torture.