Sci-Fi Serial Machine Man Getting Tooled Up For the Big
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post from /Film on 05 November 2009 08:05:25 AM. © /Film

One of the many ?wisdoms? about Hollywood that I?m not sure is true at all is that the evil and greed-driven studios will want every picture to close on a happy ending, irrespective of what?s appropriate. Mandalay Pictures seem not to mind, however (or at least not mind forcing a changed ending) as they have snapped up the movie rights to Max Barry?s Machine Man even though they have no idea how the story ends. Indeed, Barry himself has no idea as he?s writing and publishing the story online, one page a day, lots of the plotting being executed as he goes along and even incorporating ideas from his readership.The plot premise, in a nutshell, revolves around a techie who turns himself cyborg to be less bland and uninteresting, something of like a version of Tskukamuto Shinya?s Tetsuo that just brings it on himself? Here?s the very beginning:One Tuesday afternoon ...

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