Just read a little blurb on this on AICN.
Looks like John Darnton's little known sci-fi'er, originally titled The Experiement, is finally getting a movie treatment, which saddens me for personal reasons.
The AICN blurb was as such
Possible spoilers below, at least for a book.
I hope Darnton is getting some well earned royalties on this one. I haven't been able to find anything on it, but I hope this concept is getting credited to his book and not some Hollywood script writers. The Experiment focused on an island in which all the people living on it were treated perfectly and kept in perfect health, the only thing they were denied was knowledge of the outside world. The book introduces a group of friends on this little utopian island and one by one they slowly start to dissapear. The main character soon finds a friend of his split open on an operating table. He and a female try to escape the island, only he succesfully doing so. He makes it back to the main land and bumps into none other than.......himself. The two embark on a long journey to unlock why they look exactly the same. They even go to a doctor and get some blood work done only to find out they are genetically identical, except the man from the island is several years younger.
To make a long, and fascinating, story short, the island's population were grown for the sole purposes of harvesting their organs. Everyone on the island was a clone of someone offlan who could afford to pay the huge sum to have a body readily available for organ donation. Because a needed organ would be coming from someone genetically identical to yourself, the body would not reject the organ and those transplants would be seamless.
The book was an awesome exploration of modern science and where it may be taking us one day. The ending...well, that should probably be changed for the film, but it was a good book regardless.
If done right, it'll make a highly provocative movie, but it'll probably fall short of the goals set for it. If indeed The Island is based off of this book. If not, someone wasn't being terribly original.
Looks like John Darnton's little known sci-fi'er, originally titled The Experiement, is finally getting a movie treatment, which saddens me for personal reasons.
The AICN blurb was as such
Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to star opposite Ewan McGregor in THE ISLAND for director Michael Bay and DreamWorks. A Oct. 25 start is being planned on the Caspian Tredwell-Owen script. It centers on a "harvested being" who suddenly becomes self-aware and tries to escape the utopian facility where he and others are being kept. Johansson will play a woman who is the only one that McGregor's character can trust. She also is pregnant with her "sponsor's" child. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci also turned in a draft.
I hope Darnton is getting some well earned royalties on this one. I haven't been able to find anything on it, but I hope this concept is getting credited to his book and not some Hollywood script writers. The Experiment focused on an island in which all the people living on it were treated perfectly and kept in perfect health, the only thing they were denied was knowledge of the outside world. The book introduces a group of friends on this little utopian island and one by one they slowly start to dissapear. The main character soon finds a friend of his split open on an operating table. He and a female try to escape the island, only he succesfully doing so. He makes it back to the main land and bumps into none other than.......himself. The two embark on a long journey to unlock why they look exactly the same. They even go to a doctor and get some blood work done only to find out they are genetically identical, except the man from the island is several years younger.
To make a long, and fascinating, story short, the island's population were grown for the sole purposes of harvesting their organs. Everyone on the island was a clone of someone offlan who could afford to pay the huge sum to have a body readily available for organ donation. Because a needed organ would be coming from someone genetically identical to yourself, the body would not reject the organ and those transplants would be seamless.
The book was an awesome exploration of modern science and where it may be taking us one day. The ending...well, that should probably be changed for the film, but it was a good book regardless.
If done right, it'll make a highly provocative movie, but it'll probably fall short of the goals set for it. If indeed The Island is based off of this book. If not, someone wasn't being terribly original.
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