People of Earth! Your attention, please! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're talking about the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still!

In this episode we discuss:

• Farewell to the Master, the original 1940 short story by Harry Bates
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), directed by Robert Wise, written by Edmund H. North, and starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, and Hugh Marlowe
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), directed by Scott Derrickson, written by David Scarpa, and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, and Jaden Smith

Footnotes:

• Episode 108 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Justice"
• The Celluloid Closet (1996)
• Adapt or Perish Episode 49: The Karate Kid
• Seth Shostak on the Set of The Day the Earth Stood Still

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