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Subject: Re: Soul of a New Machine
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 12:33:39 EDT
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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
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