NEW SF TV ADAPTATIONS
CONSIDER PHLEBAS AT AMAZON
A bunch of sf novels are getting new TV adaptations, starting with Amazon Studios who are turning CONSIDER PHLEBAS a novel by Iain M. Banks
into a TV series. Charles Yu will write and executive produce In the science fiction novel, while war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire, a Culture Ship AI “Mind” takes refuge on a forbidden planet. Both Horza, a shape-shifting mercenary working for the Idirans, and Balveda, a “Special Circumstances” Culture agent, have been tasked with retrieving it to tip the balance in a galaxy-spanning conflict. Consider Phlebas pits sentience against AI in an epic and bloody quest across the cosmos.
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| The series was planned back in 2018 as well |
3 SF SERIES BASED ON IRWIN ALLEN'S WORK
Meanwhile,
Akiva Goldsmith will reimagine three of Irwin Allen's classic sf shows
over at Legendary Television. VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (an
underwater adventure that follows the nuclear submarine Seaview), LAND
OF THE GIANTS (about a sub-orbital space vehicle the Spindrift whose crew
gets shrunk after getting caught up in a sand
storm) and also THE TIME
TUNNEL (about two scientists who accidentally end jumping through time
as those left behind attempt to bring them back to the present time) are
supposed to get new TV series versions bringing modern sensibilities to
their timeless appeal.
storm) and also THE TIME
TUNNEL (about two scientists who accidentally end jumping through time
as those left behind attempt to bring them back to the present time) are
supposed to get new TV series versions bringing modern sensibilities to
their timeless appeal.
My husband will be interested in watching the ones based on IRWIN ALLEN'S books. But I guess they would take a couple of years before they are ready.
ReplyDeleteNot books, Irwin Allen was a producer of these classic sf shows and we are getting a remake of them.They were from the 60s and 70s methinks, before our time.
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