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Good to hear it doesn't suck, but eh. I don't need to know any more of his story.
I'd like to see the movie done as a play.
Ooooh, I've never thought about that. Yes, that would be great. Who would you cast? I just started thinking of British actors and the first ones to pop into my mind, Ian McKellen — but he's obviously too old to play John Oldman (but perhaps the skeptic Doctor?) — and Tom Hiddleston. On second thought, I don't know if David Tennant could be good as well. He's definitely played a young-ish looking ageless man before... He's better in roles that require high energy, whereas Hiddleston has a sort of cool about him that might be fitting.
I wouldn't care about big names unless it was remade as a movie. Honestly, I'd be happy to see it done by the local repertory theater company. Unless the play was filmed while it was on Broadway or at the Old Vic or whatever, I probably wouldn't see it with someone like Tom Hiddleston. I think David Tennant might be just about the right though. John was played by David Lee Smith, who was 44 at the time. Tennant is 53, but looks younger. Basically the guy needs to look old enough to be an established professor but young enough to still be attractive to grad students.
Incidentally, it was written by Jerome Bixby, who also wrote four TOS Star Trek episodes, including the famous mirror universe episode. That was the initial draw to me. That and John Billingsley from Star Trek: Enterprise. What can I say, I'm a sucker for Trekkie bait.
True enough.
I just haven't any local theaters that could be capable of doing that so I'm imagining like a play in London. Something like this
Yeah I saw the other credits of the writer to see if there's any other works I haven't seen. I was sad to see his passed in the late 90's.
Oh yeah Billingsley is great. Although I only started properly watching ST several years after having seen The Man From Earth.
Me too.