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.

 

NEW EPIC SHOWS ANNOUNCED: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, DANIEL DEFOE'S ROXANE, MEDIEVAL SERIES MATILDA! BLACK NARCISSUS EPIC TV SERIES STARTS TONIGHT AT FX

   NEW PRODUCTION OUTFIT  

ANNOUNCES A WHOLE SLATE OF NEW EPIC TV SHOWS

Daniel Defoe's novel will become a series

Legendary Entertainment has launched the joint venture production company Watford & Essex with White Princess and White Queen producers Emma Frost and Matthew Graham, and has announced development of 10 projects, among which are: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (a remake of the 1960 adventure series to be penned by Chris Lunt and Michael Walker), ROXANA (dark and funny parable about female identity, adapted by Emma Frost from Daniel Defoe's epic novel), MATILDA (Medieval female driven political adventure series created by Matthew Graham)! Fingers crossed none of these projects will be like Frost and Graham's current ultimate flop Spanish Princess. 

  BLACK NARCISSUS  

EPIC SERIES STARS TONIGHT

And speaking of epic series, just to remind you that tonight over at FX BLACK NARCISSUS series airs for US audience, with UK audience seeing it

Alessandro Nivola will be the hunk factor

next month. The series will also be available on Hulu as of tomorrow if you prefer streaming! 

 

  BLACK NARCI- SSUS EPIC SERIES

 is set in Mopu, Himalayas, in 1934 at a remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’, the location holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. During the latter years of British rule in India, ambitious young nun Sister

Gemma Arterton takes the female lead role in the series

Clodagh (Gemma Arterton) heads a mission to a remote part of the Himalayas. The palace of Mopu has been donated by General Toda Rai, who hopes the Sisters of St. Faith will rid the ‘House of Women’ of unhappy

Aisling Franciosi also stars in the new series

memories connected tohis late sister, Srimati. Although Clodagh ignores the warnings of the General’s raffish agent Mr. Dean (Alessandro Nivola), isolation and illness soon take their toll, with the haunting atmosphere of the

Before starting in UK next month,the series will stream on Hulu

palace particularly affecting volatile Sister Ruth (Aisling Franciosi). As past and present collide, the arrival of the young General Dilip Rai (Chaneil Kular) is the catalyst for an explosion of repressed desires that may end in a fatal confrontation. Late Diana Rigg also stars alongside Jim Broadbent.