UNIVERSAL CABLE PRODUCTIONS TO MAKE SF SERIES OUT OF HUGH HOWEY'S 'SAND', KURT VONNEGUT'S 'SIRENS OF TITAN' AND ROGER ZELAZNY'S 'LORD OF LIGHT'!

 UNIVERSAL'S NEW SF SERIES

 BASED ON HUGH HOWEY'S 'SAND'

Sand will be helmed by Marc Forster

Fantasy delights today: Universal Cable Productions has revealed a plan of turning a number of sf novels into TV shows! One of them is SAND based on dystopian novels by Hugh Howey! World War Z's Marc Forster is to helm the pilot set in a world ravaged by ecological devastation, savage winds, and shifting dunes. It follows a family who makes their way in this world as sand divers: the elite few who can travel deep beneath the desert floor to retrieve mysterious and valuable relics lost to the dust. Adrift in the wake of their father’s disappearance years ago, they rely on skill and each other to endure this ruthless environment

Dan Hamon is producing this one

where otherwise good people lie, sabotage, and kill in order to survive.

KURT VONNEGUT'S 'SIRENS OF TITAN'
The second sf classic they will develop into series is Kurt Vonnegut's SIRENS OF TITAN to be produced by Dan Harmon and Evan Katz.  It follows Malachi Constant, the richest man in 22nd-century America. He possesses extraordinary luck which he attributes to divine favour and has used to build upon his father’s fortune. He becomes the centre point of a journey that takes him from Earth to Mars in preparation for an interplanetary war, to Mercury with another Martian survivor of that war, back to

It's Zelazny's Hugo winning sf novel

Earth to be pilloried as a sign of Man’s displeasure with his arrogance, and finally to Titan where he again meets the man ostensibly responsible for the turn of events that have befallen him.

ZELAZNY'S 'LORD OF LIGHT'

Hugo Sf Award winning science fiction classic by Roger Zelazny LORD OF LIGHT is also on this list of adaptation. Terminator's Gale Anne Hurd will produce it with X Men's Ashley Miller. After humans have moved to a new planet, technological disparities allow a privileged few to assume the names and likenesses of deities, and rule over the common people. Tired of the system, a former “god” wages war against the unjust regime.