Hope It's Not Too Unpleasant

There have been a number of films based on Robert Heinlein's work, and though I liked Starship Troopers (which turned the message of the book inside-out), I'm not sure if any have been entirely successful. For years Hollywood has been trying to make a movie of his most famous work, Stranger In A Strange Land, but so far, nothing. Meanwhile, lots of silver screen SF might not be directly from Heinlein, but definitely inspired by him. (For instance, it's hard to deny a lot of stuff has been based on The Puppet Masters.)

Now it's been announced that Phoenix Pictures will adapt Heinlein's "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag." (I italicize novels and use quotation marks on stories. This is a novella, so I'm not sure what to do.) It's an odd but well-done story about a man who hires a detective agency to find out what he does during the day. Whether it will make a good movie or not I can't say, but I'm not sure if it's the best Heinlein plot to adapt to the screen. He has other stories with a lot more action. Still, the story is pretty original, so if they can pull it off, they'll have something special.