His writing career had been going so well that he had bought a house, and now he couldn’t afford his house anymore, so he was deeply in debt. Martin had published his fourth novel, The Armageddon Rag, which was a pretty cool book but an enormous commercial failure. “The novella was adapted into a 1987 movie that was so stunningly successful that the director used a pseudonym so that nobody would know he had directed it. And check out some highlights from the discussion below.ĭavid Barr Kirtley on the Nightflyers feature film: Listen to the complete interview with Erin Lindsey, Matthew Kressel, and Andrea Kail in Episode 341 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). This didn’t feel like a passion project for anybody.”

“They went after George and said, ‘We want to do this.’ It was a passion project for them. “The beauty of Game of Thrones is that Benioff and Weiss were huge fans of the books,” she says. TV writer Andrea Kail says that Nightflyers lacks any sort of creative vision, and that the show just seems to be trying to cash in on Martin’s name. “And it turned out that he had sold the rights as part of the contract for the 1987 feature film and he hadn’t even realized it.” “He says that he heard they were making this show and he was like, ‘How can they do that? I haven’t given them the rights,'” Kirtley says. Martin was barely involved with the show. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley had high hopes for Nightflyers, but was disappointed to learn that George R.

“I felt like they watched a lot of science fiction movies and TV and said, ‘Oh, that would be cool, that would be cool, that would be cool.’ But it never really cohered into a solid narrative.” “To me it just felt like someone was unfamiliar with the tropes of science fiction,” he says. Let it die as early and as inevitably as its entire cast.Science fiction author Matthew Kressel notes that Nightflyers never really moves beyond recycling familiar elements from better movies and TV shows.

Some of the best sci-fi in the world can be watched whenever you want. There is so much good art out there at the moment. There is nothing exciting or unusual left in the premise of a horrifying space flight and what might have been intriguing in the 1980 is now not pushing a saturated and well-explored genre in any direction. There are so many spinning plates, none of which are adequately explained, prioritised or given any urgency. There are simply no interesting characteristics present in any of the characters, besides their sci-fi skills, which do not speak to them in any way. I could barely tell you what the journey is going to involve. It’s a dangerous thing to include the finale in your first scene and suggests that we might become so interested in the characters within that the journey surpasses the destination.

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