Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site packet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd70!packet!cfv From: cfv@packet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Soul of a New Machine Message-ID: <283@packet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 12:33:39 EDT Article-I.D.: packet.283 Posted: Thu Jun 30 12:33:39 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 22:35:28 EDT References: <346@qubix.UUCP> Organization: PacketCable,Inc. Cupertino, CA. Lines: 13 As far as I know, the closest it has come to (or will come to) becoming a major motion picture is that one of the major studios spent a lot of money picking up the option so that none of the other studios could claim that THEY were making the movie first. This is a pretty standard ritual. Under normal circumstances studios option movie rights on anything that shows up on the NYTimes list and most things that don't. Something like 1 in 100 of the options are ever moved into pre-production (scripting, casting, etc) and only about 1 in 10 of those get filmed. -- >From the dungeons of the Warlock: Chuck Von Rospach ucbvax!amd70!packet!cfv (chuqui@mit-mc) <- obsolete!