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There was a real turd of a TV movie made in 2003 "based on" the Riverworld novels.
I have read all the novels, so I didn't come to the movie from zero. But I have to believe if I had come to the movie with no knowledge or expectations, I still would have thought it sucked. And the movie was, in reality, the pilot for a series.
But casting all that aside, you would need 2 or 3 movies just to do justice to To Your Scattered Bodies Go, much less the rest of the series. And can you really believe they would make the first movie without putting the riverboat(s) into it?
I would really love a series of well-made movies about the Riverworld. But the odds of that happening are so minuscule, I would prefer that it just be left alone.
