Solyaris (1972) and Solaris (2002)

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Solaris 2002

Anyone else excited about this film?

I know next to nothing about it, what I have read from its IMDB ENTRY gives little away in the form of storyline, but I can't wait to see it.

Directed by Stephen Soderberg, produced(?) by James Cameron, starring George CLooney.
Roll on December!

You can view it's teaser (and when I say teaser, I mean teaser) trailer at the apple website, http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/solaris/medium.html

I believe it might be a remake? Anyone got any further info?
 
Harry Knowles offers us up some speculation and information from Aintitcool:
Monday, June 24, 2002
Regarding the titanic pairing of Cameron and Soderberg on SOLARIS

Hey folks, Harry here... With the release of the SOLARIS tease and the upfront promotion of the teaming of Academy Award winners Steven Soderberg and James Cameron, I was curious about Cameron's involvement so I contacted a 100 ft tall boy floating on the surface of Solaris' ocean to see what I could find out.

According to this 'floater' whom I absolutely trust, James Cameron has spent no time on Soderberg's set, gave very few script notes on the project and has completely trusted Steven's abilities and instincts as a director on this project. Now you might wonder why, given Cameron's hands off approach to producing this baby, why Lightstorm has this under its wing. Well, Rae Sanchini fell in love with the book some time ago and optioned it.

My 100 ft tall boy tells me that the film is holding very true to the spirit of Tarkovsky's original work, but from a different angle and approach. This is truly meant to be a very cerebral and philosophical science fiction work and isn't a 'western in space'. This is going to have a brain, let's just hope that it delivers upon the promise of its pedigree.
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Re: Solaris 2002

Originally posted by Tabitha
I believe it might be a remake? Anyone got any further info?
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The novel 'Solaris' was originally made into a film in the Soviet Union in 1972. That version was directed by Andrei Tarkovsky from the adaptation by Tarkovsky and Fridrikh Gorenshtein.

I've not read or seen either, so I don't know anything except that it is about a mission to a oceanic planet, a waterworld called Solaris, with which contact has been lost.
 
Solaris Launches Early

Steven Soderbergh's SF movie Solaris will get an early launch date of Nov. 27, Variety reported. The Fox space movie, a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's classic 1972 Russian-language SF movie of the same name, wrapped principal photography three weeks ago and had been set for a Dec. 13 release date. Like Tarkovsky's film, Soderbergh's Solaris is based on Polish author Stanislaw Lem's SF novel.

The date shift places Solaris, starring George Clooney, two weeks ahead of Star Trek: Nemesis, which opens on Dec. 13, the trade paper reported.
 
Cameron Previews Solaris

SCIFI WIRE -- James Cameron, producer of Steven Soderbergh's upcoming SF remake film Solaris, screened a first-ever look at the unconventional movie, which stars George Clooney, to an audience at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The clip, which ran more than five minutes, depicted a spacesuited Clooney following a trail of blood through a deserted stainless steel space station, entering what looks like a refrigerated morgue and opening a couple of body bags.

Audience reaction to the moody clip was muted, but Cameron told the crowd that he agreed to the project because it was "too intriguing a possibility to pass up to see what Steven would do with that material. ... He's done something I think is pretty phenomenal."

Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven) is helming the remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's classic 1972 Russian-language SF movie of the same name, based on Polish author Stanislaw Lem's SF novel. Clooney plays a psychologist who arrives on the troubled space station Prometheus, which is orbiting the planet Solaris, and encounters mysterious phenomena. Cameron said that Soderbergh has "made a film where you go to the edge of the known universe and confront yourself." Solaris, which also stars Natascha McElhone, is slated to open Nov. 27.
 
This is now out in the US - to mixed reviews I believe. After all the broohaha (how do you spell that anyway?) over Clooney's bare bum and the certificate, I think audiences were underwhelmed by what was actually on screen.

All I have seen of it so far I have really liked, and I think it gets a UK release in January, so I will definitely be off to see it then.

Any US ascifiers seen it and care to comment?
 
Solaris

Solaris (2002)

IMDb

George Clooney .... Kelvin
Natascha McElhone .... Rheya
Viola Davis .... Gordon
Jeremy Davies .... Snow


Plot Summary

Upon arrival at the space station orbiting a world called Solaris a psychologist discovers that the commander of an expedition to the planet has died mysteriously. Other strange events soon start happening as well, such as the appearance of old acquaintances of the crew, including some who are dead.

Review

This has been stuck on my Hard drive for weeks now and i've been put off watching it because it has been called hard work. On the Contrary, I couldnt take my eyes or attention off it for a second, it had me glued. In a sense, its a cross between '2001' and 'Sphere'. I wont give anything away apart from that it was a real head twist and I'd recommend it to anyone.
 
This one isn't hitting the UK till next week, I have been looking forward to it for months and months. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
 
Just watched this on VHS and was captivated by it. Had some really great acting in it but you couldn't take your eyes off of it for a minute or you would get lost (which happened to me a time or two making me rewind and play parts of it again).
 
Solaris

Anyone seen this? Kind of slipped past me. One moment I was watching out for it - next I'm seeing the DVD on the shelves.

Anyone watched the film?
 
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No, I haven't seen the one I suppose you mean. I did see the earlier Russian version by Tarkovsky and was quite taken by the story. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has seen both versions as to how they measure up.
 
Re: Solaris

I haven't seen either of these but there's an old B movie called Journey To The Seventh Planet and, apparently, the plot to Solaris is almost identical to this one.

I quite liked it and it had quite a touching ending (for a B movie that is).
 
Re: Solaris

knivesout said:
BTW, the movie(s) are based on the novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem, a Russian SF author.

This link includes Lem's own views on the more recent version: http://www.cyberiad.info/english/kiosk/kiosk.htm#solstation
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I thought Stanislaw Lem was actually Polish.

Also he was more of a psychological writer. It was just because his books were set in the future that he ened up in the niche market of sci fi.

What would have happened if Geroge Orwell's 1984 was in the sci fi section?
 
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He was Polish, sorry. I must have got mixed up because the original film was made in Russia.

As for your question - personally, I don't think a good SF collection is complete without Orwell's 1984 or for that matter Huxley's Brave New World, so perhaps that answers the question from my perspective.

There are many works that are not seen as part of the pulp-derived SF genre, but are still an important aspect of the larger picture of the genre.
 
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I agree with you about that it's just for some reason teachers tend to think, my teachers anyway..:D , that sci fi is a waste of time I suppose. More along the lines of comic books.

As for the first version I read that Stanislaw Lem did not like it. I wonder how the new one with George Clooney stacks up against the book.

A friend of mine gave it to me as a present. She didn't like that it had George Clooney's picture on the cover. It was the only one available.

Now if only they asked us to read these things when I was in school. I would have enjoyed it more than Pip's inadequacies towards women in "Great Expectations".
 
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