While I quite like a lot of Ridley Scott's films, his comments about a film version of The Forever War make me worry
Here's a quote from him after seeing Avatar...
"I'm filming a book by Joe Haldeman called Forever War. I've got a good writer doing it. I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. It's going to be phenomenal."
Call me a cynic but I would change the last part of that quote to read "... it's going to completely miss the point of the novel".
Bugger! Forgot the link to Scott's quote
http://io9.com/5187373/james-cameron...ts-forever-war
And after a little reading I think it's going to be not the movie we'd like, this is the brief synopsis of the film
"An elite task force returns home after a brief interstellar military operation, but discovers that 20 years have past and the planet they once knew is completely different. Based on Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel “The Forever War”."
http://ragnarfan.wordpress.com/2010/...ver-war-movie/