Rendezvous With Rama Release Date U.S. :Possibly 2003
Expected Release Date U.K. : Not yet known
Expected Rental Release Date : Not yet known

Rendezvous With Rama Cast : Morgan Freeman
Director : David Fincher
Written By : Scott Brick, Andrew Kevin Walker
Producers : Morgan Freeman
Other Known Crew Members : Jean 'Moebius' Giraud (conceptual artist)

Rendezvous With Rama Based On : Rendezvous With Rama novel by Arthur C. Clarke
Premise/Synopsis : An alien spaceship called Rama is headed on a collisio course with the sun, a team is sent to investigate....
Genre : Science Fiction

Official Site : Rendezvous With Rama
Fan Sites : David Fincher, a.Fincher.news.site
Trailer : Unavailable
Released By : Revelations Entertainment/Intel (awaiting distribution deal)

Status : Filming/Greenlight/ Development Hell/Post Production/Casting

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Monday 12th January 2004: Rendezvous With Rama Update:
Morgan Freeman has revealed in an interview that his development company are planning in releasing the movie simultaneously at the Cinema and pay per view online.

Monday 23rd June 2003: Rendezvous With Rama Update:
A showreel with test FX for a possible Rendezvous With Rama movie can be found by Clicking Here

Tuesday 18th March 2003: Rendezvous With Rama Update:
Morgan Freeman has revealed that he is still actively looking to develop Rendezvous With Rama as a movie."The bugaboo there is the script. A picture like this, that is written by Arthur C. Clarke, the problem is trying to get someone to understand what it is. These things, they always want to make it into an action film, so you've got to cowboy it up a little bit. You can't
do it with this. And we've been having trouble getting someone to see the science aspect of this, the exploratory aspects of it, rather than the blood and guts and stuff. It's not in limbo. We're pushing hard at it constantly"

Rendezvous With Rama has been in development as a movie since 1997 but things have started to seriously move on the project this year. The movie was stuck in development hell quite a bit because it was originally being distributed by Polygram Films which went into liquidation.

Rendezvous With Rama is being produced by Morgan Freemans own production company called Revelations Entertainment. It is thought that Morgan Freeman will be taking a role in the movie, but interestingly it is not listed as one of the projects he has in development on the imdb, a rumoured release date for Rendezvous With Rama is for some time in 2003, whereas Tusker which is also due in 2003 is listed on the imdb, hmmm?

The premise of Rama is that an giant alien spaceship is discovered to be on a collision course with the Sun. A team is sent to investigate from the spaceship Endeavor and within Rama they find a vast organic world that is possibly abandoned. Rendezvous With Rama is the first part of a quartet of books by Arthur C.Clarke, the others being titled Rama II, Garden Of Rama, Rama Revealed. So that's the sequels all organised already then. No word if Revelations Entertainment bought the rights to those novels as well, I would presume they did.

A rumoured budget for Rendezvous With Rama is in the $100 million ballpark. This is probably due to the effects work required for the movie. The word was that they wanted to film the sets digitally and THEN place the actors into the sets. This was back in 1997, and the movie was thought to be being filmed digitally instead of the usual Panavision.

David Fincher has been attached to this project as director since that time as well, but he's in the middle of The Panic Room. If he say finished off that movie sometime in 2002, he starts Rendezvous With Rama immediately after, then I would say a 2003 release date is maybe pushing it. It was also rumoured that Rendezvous With Rama may be fully CG so again that would slow things down. You might have noticed chip makers Intel listed as the makers, the reason for that is they are the digital partners for the movie.

And that is as far as things sem to have gotten, Intel are working on developing the effects for the movie alongside Freeman's entertainment company which appears to be a huge task. Click over to the official site and you can see some of the conceptual art that they have released. Designing a lot of the movie is Moebius who, along with being a famous comic book artist, designed a lot of The Abyss.

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