The upcoming movie The Astronaut – trailer clip here – looks like an adaptation of the rotten old sci-fi novel The Space Egg. Here, read a synopsis and watch the clip, and decide for yourself. I wonder if it is in fact an adaptation, or a re-invention of an old hack plot?
With so many good and classic sci-fi stories out there just waiting for adaptation, why bother with this junk? Ah well, decide for yourself. Looks pretty rank to me though.
ps: On a better note, looking around for mentions of The Space Egg on the web lead me to the site Stranger Than SF, which of course has a scathing and spoilerific review of that particular book here. StrangerThanSF seems to be a passion project of a voracious SF reader, and there's a lot there spread around in good, bad, ugly, and indifferent. Worth your time to poke around.
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