LITERARY AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC CREATIONS REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE SCIENCE-FANTASY
LITERARY AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC CREATIONS REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE SCIENCE-FANTASY

Summary/Abstract: In 1977, the producer George Lucas launches the series of science-fiction films, Star Wars, which has inspired the appearance of books, of the video games and animated cartoons, for instance the TV series of the Clone Wars, in 2008, produced by Brian O'Connell and by Dave Bullock. The script describes the extended universe of Star Wars, at the fictitious level as well as the cinematic transition is concerned. Star Treck, produced by Gene Roddnenberry in the middle of the year 1960, has generated the appearance of the video games or of those on the computer, therefore of the science-fiction writings. The debut of the series took place in 1966, in the United States. The novel Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, divided into in fourteen chapters, deals with the problem of communication among different species, the terrestrial people and extraterrestrial beings. Being shot for three times, the novel has preserved its narrative nucleus, kept its ideea of connecting the species and of its failure between two opposite forms of life: the male character, Kris Kevin, and the female one, Rheya. In 1968, the novel Solaris has produced under the lead of the director Boris Nirenburg. New versions appear, that of the director Andrei Tarnovski, in 1972, and also that of Steven Soderbergh, in 2002, both of them keeping the title of the novel.

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