D.F. Jones: Colossus the Forbin Project
A Universal Picture--Directed by Joseph Sargent--1969
D.F. Jones wrote Colossus: the Forbin project. The movie tells the story of a super defense computer that links up with its Russian counterpart "Guardian" and decides to take over the world by threatening nuclear holocost. Sound familiar? Sounds like Skynet to me!
An MGM Picture--Directed by Donald Cammell--1977
Another computer gone mad story. This time the computer (Proteus IV) has designs on proceating with a human. It becomes obsessed with a psychologist who is childless. The movie takes a dark view of technology, especially during the brutal rape scene. Koontz is an author who specializes in stories of the dark side of human nature. In books like demon seed, he shows how technology goes foul when it takes on human characteristics such as obsession.
A 20th century Fox Picture--Directed by Wolfgang Peterson--1985
Longyear was the first writer to win the Sci Fi triple crown. That is, he won both the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Locus award for this novella. It tells the story of a spacefighter pilot who ends up stranded on a planet with a member of the alien race which he was fighting. It is story of how a common threat can make friends of even the worst enemies.
Freejack: A Morgan Creek picture--Directed by Geoff Murphy--1992
Condorman: A Walt Disney Picture--Directed By Charles Jarrott--1981
Freejack: A race Car driver is pulled into the future, moments before his death to have his body inhabited by a wealthy businessman, but he escapes and is forced to make his way through a futuristic world where he is a fugitive on the run.
Condorman: A cartoonist finds that himself as the cartoon hero that he draws and uses his superhero abilities to help a Russian spy to defect.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: At the Earth's Core, The people that time forgot, and The Land that time forgot
American International Pictures--Directed by Kevin Conner--
1975 (Land), 1976 (Core), and 1977 (People)
Born In China, Kidnapped by gypsies, sole survivor of Custers last stand, captured by Cannibles in Africa, E. R. Burroughs was a real life indiana Jones as well as a writer. Best known for his Tarzan series, Burroughs also wrote several Sci fi novels, some of which were turned into movies. The movies all seem to blend together. They are about scientist who tunnel deep into the Earth and find a world perfectly perserved since the prehistoric age.
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