NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: HOUSE OF HUDSON HISTORICAL SERIES ON THE FOUNDATION OF CANADA, AND NETHER STATION AND NETHER VORTEX SF MOVIES FROM PAUL W.S. ANDERSON

  NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS 

RISE AND FALL OF HUDSON BAY EMPIRE

The book will be turned into a TV series

As Deadline reports, Canadian Titan1Studios will develop HOUSE OF HUDSON historical series based on Stephen R. Bown‘s historical book The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1820s, the story of the series will be exploring the bloody war of attrition between the Hudson’s Bay Company and its hyper-violent rival, the North West Company, culminating in their forced corporate merger and the ruthless rise of Sir George Simpson, the cold-blooded governor known as ‘The Little Emperor.' The story will shift between the opulent, scheming boardrooms of London and Montreal and the unforgiving wilderness.

  

NETHER STATION & NETHER VORTEX

A completely different, but also epic genre will be Paul W.S. Anderson's movie adaptations of sf books NETHER STATION and NETHER VORTEX by Kevin J. Anderson. The novels follow Cammie Skoura, a brilliant, neurodivergent young scientist aboard a deep-space expedition that uncovers a trail of ancient ruins and long-dead alien civilizations leading toward a mind-shattering discovery. The filmmaker is known for his adaptations of Resident Evil games.

 

PARAMOUNT PLUS ORDERS ZERO HOUR APOCALYPTIC SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER TV SERIES

  ZERO HOUR SF SERIES  

ORDERED OVER AT PARAMOUNT PLUS

Paramount + has ordered new sf thriller series from Matthew Michael Carnahan based on a short story by Harrison Query. In ZERO HOUR, when mysterious ovals appear in the sky, the world changes forever. In the minutes that follow, a wife fights to keep her ailing husband alive, a doomsday prepper races to get his family to safety, teenage runaways are caught in the middle of a bank robbery, and a brilliant young presidential aide scrambles to make sense of it all. What begins as a pulse-pounding survival story slowly unravels into a sweeping mystery, as the truth about who these visitors are, and why they have come, upends everything humanity thought it knew about first contact.

SEE IDRIS ELBA TRAPPED IN THE OCEAN IN ABOVE THE BELOW SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE THRILLER TRAILER

 ABOVE THE BELOW TRAILER 

 IDRIS ELBA HAS TO RISE TO SURVIVE

Above the Below arrives this December

We have a trailer for an upcoming British survival thriller film co-directed by Idris Elba and Martin Owen ABOVE THE BELOW which will arrive into theatres December 4th bringing a story about three astronauts trapped in their capsule as it sinks in the ocean. Idris Elba stars as Jackson, Caitlin FitzGerald as Brooks, Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Rhodes. They are the three astronauts who are returning to Earth when their vessel is forced off course during re-entry. They struggle to survive after being cut off from contact as their capsule sinks into the ocean. It is interesting that the film was shot almost three years ago. See the trailer below. 

 

FRANCIS LAWRENCE TO HELM MOVIE ADAPTATION OF LEGENDARY 'RED RISING' SF NOVEL BY PIERCE BROWN FOR PARAMOUNT

    RED RISING   

MOVIE ADAPTATION FINDS A DIRECTOR

The whole saga has six books

More than ten years ago our favourite sf saga was supposed to be directed by  Mark Forster but that did not happen and now it has been announced that Francis Lawrence will helm the movie adaptation of Pierce Brown's novel RED RISING for Paramount! The sf tale takes place on desolate Mars, where the protagonist Darrow is caught in a class system that thrives on oppression and secrecy. He is a Red, the lowest member of society, born to toil in the bowels of the planet in service to the sovereign Golds. When he suffers a devastating loss and betrayal he becomes a revolutionary, out to bring about social justice. Questions of fate, duality, and loyalty, evolve in a cruel test of war between the sons and daughters of the ruling elite. Justin Rhodes is penning the script according to the Hollywood Reporter.

SEE INTERGALACTIC EPIC ACTION IN THE TRAILER FOR NEW SF SERIES MIDDAY WITH MAXIM MATVEYEV, YURI KOLOKOLNIKOV AND YULIYA SNIGIR

   MIDDAY SF SERIES  

TRAILER BRINGS INTERGALACTIC ACTION

Midday starts this October in Russia

Straight from Russia at the beginning of the week arrives stunning trailer for their new six part science fiction series MIDDAY (Полдень) which will hit their streamers Kion and Okko October 1st starring Maxim Matveyev, Yuri Kolokolnikov and Yuliya Snigir! 

 

 

THE EARTH

 has become the embodiment of humanistic utopia. The head of the Board for Contacts with Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Rudolf Sikorski, instructs Maxim Kammerer to find Lev Abalkin, a progressor who mysteriously disappeared after contact with the super civilization of the Wanderers. TheAbalkin group explored the planet Hope, which died as a result of a monstrous experiment conducted there by the Wanderers. After contact with them, Abalkin kills his partner and flies to Earth to launch a process similar to that which destroyed Hope. Maxim manages to get into the trail of Abalkin, but he is always one step ahead of him.

 

SEE GORGEOUS TRAILERS FOR RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE MOROZKO WITH KIRILL ZAYTSEV AND EPIC FANTASY SERIES IT'S HARD TO BE A GOD WITH ALEKSANDAR RADOJICIC, NIKITA KOLOGRIVY

  REPORT FROM RUSSIA 

TRAILER FOR EPIC FAIRY TALE MOROZKO

After a week of upcoming new French and Spanish series I have landed over in Moscow to bring you news from Russia in two parts, drop by tomorrow for historical genre. Today, two fantasy

Morozko is out this October in Russia

 movies starting with the trailer for latest fairy tale movie adaptation MOROZKO with our dearest Russian actor Kirill Zaytsev which is out October 22nd! 

  THE FILM

follows Marfa and Nastya who are half-sisters and best friends, and they cope not only with their grumpy mother, but also with ancient magic, because of which winter has not come in their village for many decades. In the famous fairy tale step mother hates her step daughter and banishes her to the woods in the middle of the winter where she selflessly saves Morozko and is then covered in gold and fortune by him to much chagrin of her step mother. By the end of the movie the girls manage to overcome all obstacles, drive away the evil witch, melt Morozko’s heart, and also find love. See the trailer below:

 

 

IT'S HARD TO BE A GOD IS STREAMING

Already streaming as of September 3rd on Russian streamer Wink is epic sf series IT'S HARD TO BE A GOD with stunningly beautiful Serbian actor Aleksandar Radojičić in the lead role 

The series started streaming this week

next to Victoria Isakova, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Nikita Kologrivy, Fyodor Lavrov, Vladimir Yumatov, Nikolai Kozak, and Vojvodinian actress Nina Senicar!

 WHAT IS THE STORY?

 In the distant future, Earthlings help less advanced civilizations overcome the difficult stages of evolution. Anton, an employee of the Institute of History, travels to medieval Arkanar to rescue scientists capable of advancing evolution. He is destined to become Don Rumata Estorsky, a wealthy aristocrat who enjoys fighting, drinking, and women. The Progressors' main rule is not to directly interfere with the natural course of history, selectively helping a few Enlighteners avoid destruction. But Anton also has a personal interest, which he concealed from the institute. Somewhere here, in Arkanar, his father has disappeared without a trace. 

 

DAN STEVENS TO TAKE THE ICONIC ROLE OF ROBOCOP IN PRIME VIDEO'S REBOOT OF FAMOUS SF SERIES

Dan Stevens will take the lead role

 DAN STEVENS 

TO PLAY ROBOCOP IN NEW SF TV SERIES AT PRIME VIDEO

Prime Video has finally chosen a star to lead their reboot of famous ROBOCOP! Dan Stevens will lead the science fiction series created by Peter Ocko. In the eight part drama a giant tech conglomerate persuades the city to place a powerful robot on its police force – a robot implanted with the consciousness of a beloved fallen officer, Alex Murphy (to be potrayed by Dan Stevens).

LEAD CAST SET FOR BBC'S TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF POPULAR SF NOVEL MINISTRY OF TIME

     MINISTRY OF TIME   

SERIES SETS CAST OVER AT BBC

More than two years ago I told you that BBC is turning Kaliane Bradley's popular sf novel MINISTRY OF TIME into a six part TV series and now we have the cast: Aoife Hinds (the nepochild of Ciaran Hinds) will star as Sophy and Billy Howle as Commander Graham Gore. The Ministry of time is a newly established government department gathering

The series will have six episodes

‘expats’ from across history in an experiment to test the viability of time-travel. Our heroine Sophy achieves a hard fought promotion in the civil service, only to learn that her role is to help a time traveller acclimatise to the modern world as part of a top secret Ministry programme. Commander Graham Gore is a Victorian polar explorer and one of several ‘expats’ from history who are now part of the Ministry’s extraordinary experiment. The professional friendship between Sophy and Graham develops into an intense forbidden romance that reveals the transporting power of love across centuries, just as the sinister nature of the Ministry’s true intentions increasingly puts them in danger.

SEE STUNNING TRAILER FOR LAVISH SF MOVIE THE NINTH PLANET WITH YURA BORISOV

   THE NINTH PLANET  

SEE THE TRAILER FOR NEW SF MOVIE

An exquisitely interesting trailer for you today, one for new science fiction movie THE NINTH PLANET (Девятая планета) by Russian director Nikolai Rybnikov with Yura Borisov and Irina Starshenbaum in the

The movie is out this September

 lead roles, which will be released on September 24, 2026. Following an accident, memories of his service on the Ninth Planet come flooding back to auto mechanic Dima Khrust: breath taking landscapes, an Earthling base, battles against monsters, friends, and Polina, the woman he once saved. His fellow soldiers think he’s lost his mind, as their own memories are entirely different, consisting of ordinary military service. But when Dima encounters Polina in real life, he is certain: someone has tampered with all their memories. Who did it, and why? The truth can only be uncovered by returning to that dangerous planet... Parts of film were shot in Morocco. 

 

NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS: PATTY JENKINS TO TURN BEST MEN BESTSELLER INTO A ROMCOM ABOUT A MAN OF HONOUR WHO FALLS FOR THE BEST MAN AT A WEDDING, JOE WRIGHT TO DIRECT SF THRILLER JUICE

   PATTY JENKINS  

TO TURN BEST MEN INTO A ROMCOM

Patty Jenkins will produce the adaptation

According to Deadline, Patty Jenkins will produce romantic movie adaptation of Sidney Karger's best seller BEST MEN about a romantically challenged “man of honour” who falls for the groom’s charming best man. To be directed by Jason Crain this gay love story follows romantically challenged Max Moody, who is asked by his childhood best friend Paige to serve as her “man of honor” at her wedding, only to be paired with the groom’s impossibly charming best man, Chasten. What begins as competitive misery soon gives way to unexpected chemistry, transforming the wedding Max has been dreading into the romance he never saw coming!

 

Joe Wright will direct the feature

JOE WRIGHT TO DIRECT SF JUICE

Meanwhile, Joe Wright has been set to direct the movie adaptation of sf  post apocalyptic thriller JUICE by Tim Winton set in a fractured and ravaged world following a climate-change disaster. A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, joining the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.

THERE IS NO WAY OUT OF YOUR HOME IN THE LAST HOUSE SF MOVIE THRILLER TRAILER FROM NETFLIX

   THE LAST HOUSE  

HOW LONG CAN YOU SURVIVE?

The movie is out August 7th on Netflix

I must confess I rarely watch anything on Netflix, but I do like it when they give us something apocalyptic. Today we have a very atmospheric and scary first trailer for thriller movie THE LAST HOUSE from Louis Leterrier which will be available for streaming August 7th! Greta Lee and Wagner Moura star in the original sci-fi thriller about a family who are mysteriously sealed into their home with no way out. If that doesn’t sound nightmarish enough, their resources are running thin, and they must work together to survive not only a lack of essentials but also the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped inside. And the lock down does not last for days or weeks, but for years! Check out the intriguing trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

EWAN MCGREGOR AND ANNE HATHAWAY DEFEND THEIR BLOCK FROM THE DINOSAURS IN THE END OF OAK STREET MOVIE TRAILER

  THE END OF OAK STREET  

THERE ARE DINOSAURS IN OUR YARD

The dinos will attack your block this August

After the mysterious teaser back in March, a full, an even scarier, trailer has been released now alongside a poster for David Robert Mitchell's sf movie THE END OF OAK STREET starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. It will be released August 14th in cinemas. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, a family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. Watch the trailer below and tell us what you think.

 

BRANDON SANDERSON'S POPULAR SF SAGA SKYWARD TO BE TURNED INTO A TV SERIES

  BRANDON SANDERSON'S 

SKYWARD TO BE TURNED INTO TV SERIES

Sanderson will pen the scripts himself

One of the most popular writers among the fantasy fans Brandon Sanders will have his SKYWARD book turned into a TV series by Tomorrow Studios with him penning the scripts together with Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen! In the book humanity is trapped on a harsh planet and constantly under attack by mysterious alien forces. The story follows Spensa Nightshade, a determined pilot who dreams of joining the fighter corps to defend humanity and redeem her disgraced father’s legacy. Blending high-stakes aerial combat, advanced technology, and themes of courage, identity, and discovery, the series explores both the secrets of the galaxy and Spensa’s growth from an outsider into a key figure in humanity’s fight for survival.

BRENDAN FRASER TO FLY TO THE MARS IN STARMAN SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE THRILLER

     BRENDAN FRASER    

Brendan Fraser will take the lead

TO LEAD STARMAN SF MOVIE

Beside finishing the new Mummy movie with Rachel Weisz which will hit the big screens next year, Oscar winner Brendan Fraser will also star as the lead of STARMAN science fiction action movie from director Josh Wakely. He will portray visionary technologist Tom Adams, an architect of the future, who launches a historic expedition to Mars, positioning himself at the forefront of humanity’s next frontier. But when unforeseen events find him millions of miles from Earth, his mission becomes an unexpected and urgent race against time, driven not by survival alone, but by love.

STUART MARTIN, IAIN DE CAESTECKER, GUGU MBATHA RAW CAST IN BBC SF THRILLER TV SERIES SUTHERLAND

  SUTHERLAND SF SERIES  

AT BBC CASTS IAIN DE CAESTECKER,  STUART MARTIN AND GUGU MBATHA RAW

BBC One has set cast for their new six part sf thriller series SUTHERLAND set at Sutherland, the far north of Scotland, in the near future. Mirren (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) works at Paravel Space Hub as flight director for the UK's first crewed mission to the stars. Everything is going to plan when, just hours after launch, a series of unexplained events engulf Sutherland in mystery and risks destroying everything Mirren’s been striving for. As a decades old conspiracy begins to resurface, local detective Logan (Stuart Martin) is unexpectedly pulled back into Mirren's orbit. When Logan’s investigation and Mirren’s mission threaten to unravel, the pair join forces to make an extraordinary discovery that will change their lives forever. Iain De Caestecker also stars.

SEE EWAN MCGREGOR AND ANNE HATHAWAY CHASED BY A DINOSAUR IN THE END OF OAK STREET FANTASY MOVIE TEASER TRAILER

  THE END OF OAK STREET  

EWAN MCGREGOR AND ANNE HATHAWAY

A mysterious trailer has been released for David Robert Mitchell's sf movie THE END OF OAK STREET starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. It will be released August 14th in cinemas. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, a family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. 

 

FIRST IMAGES FROM EPIC SF TV SERIES IT'S HARD TO BE A GOD WITH ALEKSANDAR RADOJICIC, SERGEI BEZRUKOV, NIKITA KOLOGRIVY, NINA SENICAR

  IT'S HARD TO BE A GOD  

FIRST IMAGES FROM THE SF EPIC SERIES

Russian streamer Wink and their broadcaster NTV have finished production on their eight part action-adventure drama IT'S HARD TO BE A GOD (Трудно быть богом) based on the novella of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. With the sets that are a combination of medieval European and Eastern architecture, the series was shot in Iran and Moscow with over 600 builders, engineers, artists, sculptors, and decorators working on it for five months. A whole city was built including the lavish Condor palace. Hope we get a trailer soon!

 WHAT IS THE STORY?

 In the distant future, Earthlings help less advanced civilizations overcome the difficult stages of evolution. Anton, an employee of the Institute of History, travels to medieval Arkanar to rescue scientists capable of advancing evolution. He is destined to become Don Rumata Estorsky, a wealthy aristocrat who enjoys fighting, drinking, and women. The Progressors' main rule is not to directly interfere with the natural course of history, selectively helping a few Enlighteners avoid destruction. But Anton also has a personal interest, which he concealed from the institute. Somewhere here, in Arkanar, his father has disappeared without a trace. 

 

WHO IS IN THE CAST? 

To make the cast international, the producers have given the role of Rumata in the series to Serbia's hottest movie star, the wildly handsome and stunningly beautiful Aleksandar Radojičić who thus joins another Serbian star Milosh Bikovich in the Russian movie and TV world. Sergei Bezrukov plays Condor. The cast also includes Victoria Isakova, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Nikita Kologrivy, Fyodor Lavrov, Vladimir Yumatov, Nikolai Kozak, stunning Nina Senicar actress from your spy's country of Vojvodina joins the international part of the cast. The series will also include Irina Pautova, Lev Zulkarnaev, Ravshana Kurkova, Victor Dobronravov, Artemy Milgram, Ivan Agapov, Maria Denisova, Boris Zverev, Daniil Kiselev, Yana Sexte and others.

SEE LUKE EVANS AND MILLA JOVOVICH FIGHTING SOME NASTY CREATURES IN APOCALYPTIC THRILLER TRAILER WORLDBREAKER

   WORLDBREAKER TRAILER   

WITH LUKE EVANS AND MILLA JOVOVICH

The world will break at the end of January

An apocalyptic trailer has been released for science fiction disaster action movie WORLD BREAKER which will storm into cinemas January 30th with Luke Evans and Milla Jovovich in the lead roles. Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. Luke Evans plays a father who hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe, while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. However, when the world is about to break, no place is safe. See trailer below for the movie directed by Brad Anderson.

 

ALIENS ARE HERE IN STEVEN SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY MOVIE TRAILER WITH EMILY BLUNT, JOSH O'CONNOR, COLIN FIRT, HENRY LLOYD HUGHES

 DISCLOSURE DAY TRAILER 

WITH EMILY BLUNT AND JOSH O'CONNOR

A trailer has been released for a new science fiction thriller movie DISCLOSURE DAY from Steven Spielberg which will be out in cinemas June 12th next year starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Henry Lloyd Hughes and Colin Firth in the story about the arrival of aliens. If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day. 

 

PRIME VIDEO ORDERS NEW STARGATE SF TV SERIES BASED ON THE LEGENDARY SF MOVIE

    NEW STARGATE   

SF TV SERIES ORDERED BY PRIME VIDEO

Prime Video has ordered a brand new TV series version of popular STARGATE movie which was already turned into two TV series before. This time Martin Gero will write, direct and executive produce it and Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich who created the original movie will also be executive producers. As you know Stargate is a military sci-fi franchise that centers on the Stargate, an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a stable wormhole, enabling near-instantaneous travel across the cosmos.