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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 22, 2015 9:27:54 GMT -6
deadline.com/2015/01/j-michael-straczynski-red-mars-series-spike-1201354875/J. Michael Straczynski To Write Spike TV’s ‘Red Mars’ Drama Series Project Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has been tapped to write Red Mars, Spike TV’s scripted featured drama series project in development based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s best-selling “hard” science-fiction trilogy about the colonization and terraforming transformation of Mars into a place where humans can live sustainably. The TV series adaptation, named after the first book in the trilogy, has been on fast-track development at Spike since the network took in the project in October with HBO’s Game Of Thrones co-executive producer Vince Gerardis as producer and Robinson as consultant. The three novels — Red Mars (1993), Green Mars (1994) and Blue Mars (1996), which have won Nebula and Hugo Awards — are regarded as the best books written on the subject and a holy grail for science fiction fans. Straczynski, repped by Paradigm, wrote the Clint Eastwood feature The Changeling and co-wrote Thor and World War Z. In TV, he is wrapping the first season of Sense8, Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi series that Straczynski co-wrote and executive produces/runs with the Wachowskis. He has written more than 300 produced episodes of television and nearly 500 comics for Marvel, DC and others.
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