Okay, Hollywood, there's good SF and bad SF: 'Martian
Chronicles' and 'Robots' news  A desperate plea to development
people to think about what they're doing  <p>Wolfgang Petersen
is attached to make 'Rock Em Sock Em Robots' as a movie?&nbsp;
Fox is developing 'The Martian Chronicles'?&nbsp; Hollywood's
got SF&nbsp;fever.</p>  Wolfgang Petersen is attached to make
'Rock Em Sock Em Robots' as a movie?  Fox is developing 'The
Martian Chronicles'?  Hollywood's got SF fever.  Credit: Mattel
Part of me hopes that the next big gold rush for development
people in Hollywood involves the thousands of amazing SF novels
and short stories out there that have never been optioned or
filmed before.  Another part of me realizes that I might regret
that wish if it actually comes true.  I'm not sure I want Brett
Ratner's "The Stainless Steel Rat" starring Zak Efron, and
that's exactly the sort of worst-case-scenario that could
happen.  There are two stories breaking today that started me
thinking about all of this.  The first