Apparently Dennis Villeneuve is planning to adapt Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama after he completes Dune Part Two. I read RwR last year without realizing there were more written later by Gentry Lee in collaboration with Clarke. Clarke apparently meant for RwR to be a standalone novel despite throwing in a sentence in the final revision that seemed to indicate the story wasn't over. With Villeneuve on board, we know it will at least look great.
https://www.tor.com/2021/12/15/dune-director-denis-villeneuve-adapt-arthur-c-clarkes-rendezvous-with-rama/
https://www.tor.com/2021/12/15/dune-director-denis-villeneuve-adapt-arthur-c-clarkes-rendezvous-with-rama/
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Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve is heading from Arrakis to Rama. After he finishes up Dune: Part Two (which was greenlit after Dune: Part One's commercial success), the director will take on a feature adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project is backed by Alcon Entertainment, the producers behind some genre shows you might have heard ofPrime Video's The Expanse and Netflix's The Witcher.
Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama involves a group of human space explorers flying toward Rama, a large celestial object hurtling toward Earth that humans think is an alien spacecraft, marking the world's first contact with alien intelligence.
