WB Grabs Simmons' HYPERION

Time travel and impaling, sounds like the perfect combination to me....I never read these, but I may have to check them out now,,,,on a side note, when they hell are the gonna turn the Split Infinity series by Pierce Anthony into a movie?

These books are among the best SF ever written. I'm skeptical you could pull the 1st book off in 2 movies. That said, I'd love to see the Shrike in action.

I read these books about ten years ago, and I remember that I really liked them. I have been meaning to reread them but have only bought the third and fourth book so far, and it's no fun starting with those so...
But there's no way they can make one movie from the first two books ! What I remember from the first book is that it just deals with the life-stories of the seven (or possibly eight, ten years is a long time ) travellers. They are cool stories but you can't make a movie just from the first book because it would seem to have no goal.
There's going to have to be major cuts and pastes in the storie to get this movie to a big public.
Here's hoping they don't screw it up.

Yeah, I'm also skeptical about the two novels in one movie format. Did they read the same books? Actually, I think it might work better as a TV Series -- kind of like Lost.

I agree with teabagging, one of the best SF books written, will to pick it up again. Looking forward to this.

I really liked these books but they're probably going to streamline it since the first book was broken into several stories like Canterbury Tales, which kinda makes me sad because I really liked how that was structured.