Comments on: The man who showed me what spaceships look like http://nathanmnelson.com/2009/09/23/the-man-who-showed-me-what-spaceships-look-like/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-man-who-showed-me-what-spaceships-look-like ...work in progress Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Iain http://nathanmnelson.com/2009/09/23/the-man-who-showed-me-what-spaceships-look-like/#comment-19915 Iain Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:46:37 +0000 http://www.spikydog.com/blog/2009/09/23/the-man-who-showed-me-what-spaceships-look-like/#comment-19915 I remember that Chris Foss was ubiquitous as far as SF book covers went in the 80s – to the extent that if a book was SF it had a Chris Foss painting of a spaceship on the front cover, even if the subject of the book had absolutely nothing to do with spaceships. That version of Dune you refer to is a film that I really regret was never made, with all of the various collaborators involved (including Salvador Dali playing the emperor) it could have been incredible. It might have been dreadful too, but it would have been fascinating to watch. I still think that there is scope for a decent screen version – I liked the look of the David Lynch version but thought that the story was dreadful (but partly well cast). The TV mini-series was largely faithful but very dull. I remember that Chris Foss was ubiquitous as far as SF book covers went in the 80s – to the extent that if a book was SF it had a Chris Foss painting of a spaceship on the front cover, even if the subject of the book had absolutely nothing to do with spaceships.

That version of Dune you refer to is a film that I really regret was never made, with all of the various collaborators involved (including Salvador Dali playing the emperor) it could have been incredible. It might have been dreadful too, but it would have been fascinating to watch. I still think that there is scope for a decent screen version – I liked the look of the David Lynch version but thought that the story was dreadful (but partly well cast). The TV mini-series was largely faithful but very dull.

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