Did the forces take him away? Or is he still working for his company? Or would his company send hitmen to take him out? Does anyone know? Thanks.
shareNobody knows. Most likely, O'Neil probably notified his superiors and had him locked up.
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Well, he's basically screwed, that's what happened to him.
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I just watched this after seeing bits and pieces of it for years on late night tv. Watching it whole, I really liked it but thought some of the problems of the movie may have stemmed from it being translated from a book to film. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
jaustin035, on Sun Dec 16 2007 18:50:29, wrote something that made me laugh.
In cases where the book is written to accompany the film- as in this case- I get the impression that the (novel) writer is working from an early script, and things are subject to change. Re-editing a film can happen much quicker than the lead time for an author's book to come out so there are often inconsistencies between the book and the film.
Outland is actually pretty spot on as a book-of-the-film, there are some much more horribly inaccurate conversions out there.
Actually, thanks. I found out shortly after that it was the opposite way around then how I thought it was. I haven't read the book but I would like to because of the same feeling I had before; That this movie came from some type of a great story. The only real flaws I thought the movie had were issues that wouldn't be so much of a problem with a written work, such as development of characters and their relationships, and scattered moments that gave me a feeling like " I understand the continuity here, but it seems like a (maybe-even-minor) scene or event was edited out" or " If I was reading the book, this aspect would be more fleshed-out". I really liked the movie, and actually didn't even think of "High Noon" while watching it. It actually came-off to me more like a space-cop-thriller when I watched the whole thing recently for the first time. I had a hard time watching it when I was young because I had trouble wrapping my mind around "James Bond" being a space-marshall.
jaustin035, on Sun Dec 16 2007 18:50:29, wrote something that made me laugh.
This is the message sent to Sheppard:
"I'll tell you,
if this doesn 't work out...
...the next guys who come
will be coming for you. "
Unless O'Niel dispenses some extra unnecessary justice (or some necessary justice with inadequate timing) and apprehends the top baddies before they send the "next guys". Which I guess he doesn't do -- I wouldn't if I were him, that's for sure.
In the book, O'Niel transmits all his evidence to the proper authorities before he leaves Io to join his family. He also puts in a good word for Lazarus, suggesting she be promoted to a better position elsewhere.
Because a page or so is devoted to this at the end of the book, I'd guess that all this was in the original script but was either excised early on, or may have even been filmed and edited out.
Have to say, that although I love the final version of Outland as it is, it would have been interesting to see these elements incorporated into some kind of special cut of the film, if they were actually filmed.
Oh yeah, another thing that the book mentions but which isn't apparent in the film, is that Spota is gay, or at least shows great interest in male prostitutes. Again, don't know whether this was a cut from the script or the film, or if Alan Dean Foster is making it all up in his novelization, though I doubt that.