20th Century Fox and
Bryan Singer are teaming up to adapt Robert A. Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel series
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress to the big screen. Arrow's executive producer Marc
Guggenheim is in charge of penning the adaptation, which will be titled
Uprising.
Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his
era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern
critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with
an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best
novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely
considered his finest work.
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the winner of the
1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Production on X-Men:
Apocalypse is due to begin anytime now, and with it scheduled to hit theaters
on May 27 of 2016 it's unclear if Singer will be sitting on the director's
chair, but then again Guggenheim will have more than enough time to make the
novel justice.
This isn't the first
attempt at bringing Heinlein's novel to the big screen. Both DreamWorks and
Phoenix Pictures tried at one time to do so, but failed and the rights reverted
to the Heinlein estate.
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