In his personal newsletter, Warren Ellis commented on George Clooney commenting on his part in Solaris

"He comments that SOLARIS is flopping domestically, though it'll probably make most of its money back in foreign markets. But that doesn't matter. What matters is that they did it. The film is there. And it is -- I realise this flies against the face of all critics everywhere -- a good film. I always hesitate to use the word "emotional" when discussing story, as I fear I sound like the wreckage of Francis Ford Coppola talking shit about the Godfather movies in the beginning of his twilight years. But SOLARIS has an unmannered, mature emotional complexity to it. It is, in fact, a Seventies art-film. It gets the best performance I've ever seen from Natasha McElhone, and Clooney is clearly fucking with his perceived star persona as the chilly, damaged psychiatrist. One of the character's friends calls him "a nihilist shrink."

I grabbed the original Soderbergh script down from script-o-rama.com, and there are some interesting cuts. Anything that added to the science- fictional tone of the film got cut. It's all in the inference in the finished film. It's genre deconstruction, concentrating on the thing the majority of sf doesn't do -- creating a real life in the relationships.

It may not be what anyone wanted to see, but it's the film they wanted to make."

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