NEW SF TV SHOW ADAPTATIONS: CONSIDER PHLEBAS AT AMAZON, AND REMAKE OF VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, LAND OF THE GIANTS AND THE TIME TUNNEL

  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

The series was planned back in 2018 as well

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. 

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.

 

SF WEDNESDAY: 'LOST IN SPACE' NETFLIX SF SERIES REMAKE TEASER WITH TOBY STEPHENS! AMAZON TO TURN IAIN BANKS' SF SAGA 'CONSIDER PHLEBAS' INTO TV SERIES!

  'CONSIDER PHLEBAS'

 AMAZON TO TURN IAIN BANKS' SF SAGA INTO A TV SERIES

Amazon is working on a number of sf series

 Amazon is planning to turn sf classic saga Culture into a TV series starting with the first book CONSIDER PHLEBAS from Iain Banks set in an interstellar utopian society, the Culture, which has humanoids, aliens, and advanced artificial intelligences living in Socialist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy until a war starts with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy. The series will follow Horza, a rogue agent tasked by the Idirans with the impossible mission of recovering a missing Culture ‘Mind,’ an artificial intelligence many thousands of times smarter than any human, something that could hold the key to wiping out the Culture altogether.

  'LOST IN SPACE' REMAKE

 FIRST TEASER AND PHOTOS FOR NETFLIX NEW SF SERIES

Netflix has revealed the first teaser and April 13th as the launch date for new LOST IN SPACE sf series starring Toby Stephens! Set 30 years in the future, colonization in space is now a reality, and the Robinson family is

Tobey Stephens leads the cast as the head of the Robinson family

among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find themselves abruptly torn off course en

The first season starting this April will have ten episodes

route to their new home they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light-years from their original destination. Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find

Ignacio Serricchio is a charming contractor lost in space!

themselves thrown together by circumstance and a mutual knack for deception. The unsettlingly charismatic Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish, but

Molly Parker plays mother of the Robinson family!

inadvertently charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio) is a highly-skilled, blue collar contractor, who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash landing on a lost planet.