He's likely never dropped it. It would just be a hugely expensive endeavor, and he needs to have financing in place.

I adore LEGEND and THE DUELLISTS. SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME is hugely underrated.

shh! some people clearly don't understand the development process

He's smart enough to recognize that many will fall by the wayside, but by retaining some control, he can maybe pass them along to associates/proteges at Ridley Scott Associates.

The novel of The Martian essentially was a screenplay, though, much like Michael Crichton's novels. Really awful prose and characterization in that. Weir doesn't seem to have much of a handle on descriptive imagery, either.

David Cronenberg wanted to adapt The Matarese Circle with Tom Cruise. That would've been nice

yet another failure from a former SIMPSONS staff writer.

H. Ross Perot girl and Detective Dan were the only memorable facets of ALL THAT

they got so much mileage out of the Phil LaMarr/Pulp Fiction connection

the South Park geek was absolutely pathetic. The Movie Geek, Mark Edward Heuck, lurks around the AV Club, I think

Blaine Capatch, an early writer on the show, was also the incredibly manic host of Comedy Central's sorely missed BEAT THE GEEKS.

Lowered Expectations was a great recurring sketch. Just the opening shot of the couple walking hand in hand by what looked like a sewage plant was enough to make me smile.

I remember how bizarrely FOX handled the scheduling of this show. It seemed to vanish for months and then reappear. It was perpetually in this cancelled/renewed/hiatus limbo

the SPY VS. SPY segments were terrific. I do appreciate how that first season did incorporate quite a bit of the actual magazine. BTW, there was an incredibly bizarre one-off MAD special from 1974

well, neither could touch Nickelodeon's ROUNDHOUSE.

the first season really did have some great stuff. I loved the stop motion/Rankin-Bass holiday special parodies and the Woody Allen-in-a-DIE HARD-knockoff short.

I think part of what's annoying people is the fact that Sony is going to try to make this thing as ubiquitous as possible. MGM didn't have the resources/energy to bombard people with its Robocop shit.

Well, a Robocop reboot wasn't being hyped for 20 years a la this film

once upon a time, Hollywood used to make small or mid-budget films aimed at genuinely mature audiences. People who didn't necessarily want spectacle and nonstop VFX. Those days are gone.

interestingly, one of the few movies Bullock ENHANCED was Demolition Man. Her deadpan delivery in that film is truly fantastic.