Has Hollywood 'discovered' O'Neill Habitats?

The major hurdle to be overcome there is the producer, who's liable
to think that he's wasting money on CGI, sets, and special effects
on telling a story that in his eyes, could be told just as well on
Earth. So the trick would be to make the space habitat setting
essential to the 'ordinary drama' premise, without overshadowing it.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
>
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"

> wrote:
>
> > There was an excellent pilot called "Plymouth" about pioneers on
a
> > moon colony, but that never got picked up.
>
> Darn, you beat me to it. This was a good movie.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102681/
>
> However, if there the capitalists were the evildoers for causing a
> toxic spill in the Earth town of Plymouth and then offering the
town
> the opportunity to move to the moon. So they're evil capitalists
and
> pretty stupid too, for what kind of selection mechanism for a lunar
> colony is that?
>
> What I'd love to see is an ordinary drama, let's say, Kramer vs.
> Kramer, or The Insider, or whatever, take place in a Habitat. The
> Habitat shouldn't be the key to the story but serve as a backdrop
to
> show the normality of life and perhaps the unique personal and
> behavioral adaptations that inhabitants have adopted for living in
a
> Habitat. Make it seem ordinary, rather than sci-fiie. I suppose it
> could be something like Blade Runner, where the whole mileau is
> present but not center stage, though it comes close by setting the
> atmosphere of the time and place.
>
> No lingering shots on the cylinder but have the upward sweep of the
> Habitat structure always in the background.
>
> I liked the treatment Kubrick gave in 2001, where the space
> infrastructure just was part of the backdrop and the drame took
place