> >http://www.dansimmons.com/news/news_items.htm

> > It is a vast concept the Hyperion Cantos. I really can't see how it
> > can be made to film.

> > However, we will see.

> Unlike many here apparently, I greatly liked the "Hyperion/Endymion"
> dual duologies; I told a budding sci-fi fan that they were grand-scale
> science fiction  in the classic tradition, w/out being at all
> derivative.
> A movie version might have me going to the cinema for the first time in
> 12 years, but I fear--based on trends I see in the trailers on TV--
> the special effects would have it looking like a video game.