As a part time SciFi geek one of my favorite Classic movie of all time has got to be The Andromeda Strain. Now more then thirty years after the original movie came out and almost 40 year after the book came out, A&E is doing a two night mini-series that airs next Monday the 26th.

While the original 1971 Robert Wise film has got to one of the all time great films, with it’s use of split screen and multiple images. Viewed today however it has started to show it’s age, with teletypes and ascii only computer displays. It will be interesting to see how the are going update the story. Unfortunately from what I have been reading on the ‘net the mini-series stray greatly from the Michael Crichton book. Hopefully they wont kill the story too much. We’ll just have to wait and see.