SF Signal: Another Heinlein Movie?

Another Heinlein Movie?

From Sci Fi Wire: Robert A. Heinlein's SF classic Have Spacesuit, Will Travel is in planning stages to become a movie.

Scarcely a classic, this is one of the more puerile of RAH's
juveniles.
Citizen of the Galaxy, The Star Beast, Between Planets, Farmer in the Sky are all superior.
The Unplesant Profession of Johathan Hoag would be a charming addition to the Masters of Horror series.

Posted by carl on Thursday August 17, 2006 at 6:04 PM

I'm not familiar with that one. However, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" is a pretty darn fine tale.

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday August 17, 2006 at 9:12 PM

And...as far as "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" is concerned, any book where the main character drools over the duplex sliderule and promotes the benefits of a education which involves higher mathematics, science, multiple foreign languages and the like deserves the term "classic"!

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday August 17, 2006 at 9:14 PM

Heck, at 2 years and 7 months old, this very post can be called "classic"!

Posted by John on Thursday August 17, 2006 at 11:14 PM

Yep, I'm always amazed when somebody comments about something that is a "blast from the past". You wonder how they got there...

Posted by Fred Kiesche on Friday August 18, 2006 at 8:57 AM

A wonderful book from his juvenile collection. I will be using it this year with my fifth grade class. I'd LOVE a movie to show with it at the conclusion! I hope it isn't the stinker that the last one was. It was a BEM movie and hardly resembled the book at all. RAH must have been spinning in his grave. He was alway so careful to control the movies that he did so that they would accurately represent his novels....I guess Mrs. H was more interested in the cash compensation than in the lasting memory of her late and great husband's legacy.

Posted by yup on Friday August 18, 2006 at 10:06 AM

They got there because this site has this 'Past Ramblings' section that is designed to necro old posts as we see here. Well, maybe that's not the actual design goal - but that does sometimes happen.

Or, they could have gotten here via a hit on a search engine.

Posted by Scott on Monday August 21, 2006 at 12:42 AM

My guess is that it was the result of a search engine.

Posted by David on Wednesday March 26, 2008 at 9:24 PM