Ray bradbury biography movies on netflix

The legendary sci-fi, horror, and fantasy author Ray Bradbury would have been 100 years old today (Aug. 22), and although the master left us on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, his titanic contributions to all three genres -- and American literature in general -- will remain with us for generations to come.

Novels like Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Martian Chronicles, along with short stories such as "The Veldt," "The Jar," "There Will Come Soft Rains," "A Sound of Thunder," and "The Fog Horn," are all genre landmarks in their own right, the product of a vast, empathetic, and unyielding imagination that has influenced countless writers and readers swept up in the worlds he created.

Bradbury's poetic, metaphor-filled prose was not easy to adapt to the screen, which is perhaps why there have been far fewer screen versions of his work than that of, say, Stephen King.

But there were still a number of significant adaptations of Bradbury's work for both t