Says NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Chairman Bonnie Hammer, “From my point of view, Stranger In A Strange Land isn’t just a science-fiction masterpiece. Producers on the proposed series version of Stranger include Brad Fischer, William Sherak, Julia Gunn and Scott Rudin. I don’t see how to take out the sex and religion. The story, he continued, was designed to be a look at human culture from the non-human viewpoint of Smith, and in addition to a couple of dozen “satirical slants,” the two things he was taking on were “the two biggest, fattest sacred cows of all, the two that every writer is supposed to give at least lip service to: the implicit assumptions of our Western culture concerning religion and concerning sex. But as the author noted to his literary agent, if religion and sex were removed from the text, what remained would be the equivalent of a “nonalcoholic martini.” The controversial elements, and true driving forces of the novel, are religion and sex, which Heinlein’s publisher at the time wanted him to cut out. Eventually managing to escape, he rapidly begins to have a transformative effect on humanity, notably in the form of a growing religion, the center at which he sits. There he begins the next phase of his life locked up in seclusion - and ostensibly for his own safety - at Bethesda Hospital. The story, set in the aftermath of a third world war, centers on Valentine Michael Smith, a human born on Mars and raised by Martians, who, as a young adult, has returned to Earth. Heinlein's classic 1961 novel Stranger In A Strange Land has been put into development by Paramount as a series for Syfy, and it’s almost guaranteed to be controversial given the subject matters it takes on.
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