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Originally Posted by jw007
Solaris is beautiful science fiction on all levels. It's such a masterpiece that Steven Soderbergh felt it was necessary to remake this film (which is a fine movie in itself too).
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Solaris was not an original screenplay, what Soderbergh made was another adaptation of Stanislav Tem's source novel of the same name.
For what it's worth Tem disliked Tarkovsky's adaptation and I think did not bother to see Soderbergh's film. His thoughts can be read here:
Tarkosvsky film
Soderbergh film (reaction to reviews, not the film itself)
This remark by Lem made me LOL:
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Incidentally, the same thing later happened to the Strugatskys when Tarkovsky made Stalker based on The Roadside Picnic and dished up the sort of stew nobody understands but the stew is duly sad and gloomy instead.
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