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Speculative SpecFic Weekend Reading

David Wong has a great list of...

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4. Starcraft
2000, directed by James Cameron

So imagine the aliens from Aliens had evolved so they could breed gigantic, flying aliens that could shoot like gunships or spew clouds of poison. There are other creatures that can burrow underground and fire spikes up to impale enemy troops and giant bugs the size of tanks with tusks that can rip through steel.

And they're engaged in a war with a futuristic humanity, who fights back with soldiers in mechanized armor and walking tanks two stories tall...

...and both of them are at war with an even more advanced alien race, a cultured, intelligent species as far above humans on the cultural scale as the humans are above the bugs.

That's Starcraft, the PC strategy game that's sold an astonishing nine million copies since 1998. In the hands of the right director (and a screenwriter who can create memorable characters to follow) you could have the next Star Wars, a universe with an almost infinite number of stories to tell.

At a time when every damned thing gets made into a movie, from 70's TV shows to Bloodrayne, are you telling me nobody thought to try to make a Starcraft movie? And what exactly has James Cameron been doing in the eight years since Titanic?

He's about to unleash a 3D sci-fi spectacle called Battle Angel, actually. But still, I know David isn't the only one who wishes he'd been doing something other than Aliens of the Deep.

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