AMAZON TO TURN SF CLASSIC 'RINGWORLD' AND SF COMIC BOOK 'LAZARUS' INTO TV SERIES

  AMAZON TO MAKE SF SERIES 

FROM 'RINGWORLD' SF CLASSIC

Ringworld was almost turned into series at SyFy

We continue our sf week with some great new science fiction news coming from Amazon which will develop Ringworld and Lazarus into TV series! RINGWORLD, based on Larry Niven's sf classic novel, was already planned for production a few years ago at SyFy, but it seems now it has the green light. It follows Louis Gridley Wu, a bored man celebrating his 200th birthday in a technologically advanced, future Earth. Upon being offered one of the open positions on a voyage, he joins a young woman and two aliens to explore RINGWORLD, the remote artificial ring beyond “Known Space.” The books cover their

Lazarus is set on a feudal sf earth!

thrilling journey as they attempt to fulfil their original mission to uncover the mysteries of Ring.

LAZARUS SF COMIC  
 Amazon is also looking to turn Greg Rucka's comic book LAZARUS into new TV series. It is set in an alternative near future where the world has been divided among 16 rival families, who run their territories in a feudal system. Each family has allies and enemies among the other families. To crush uprisings and fight wars, most families have a Lazarus: a one-person kill squad. Kinda similar to Into the Badlands.