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MOVIES - Oct. 8, 1987

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Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov is breaking into the movies. He has signed an agreement with the New York-based Miramax Films to write an English adaptation of Rene Laloux’s original French screenplay of “Light Years,” completed this summer. Laloux’s animated story concerns a civilization destroyed and reborn due to technological experimentation.

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