AMC develping Robinson’s Red Mars for series
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
AMC has done pretty well for itself of late with the critically acclaimed series Broken Trail, Mad Men and Breaking Bad. I’m additionally hopefully optimistic that they will do a good job with their mini-series remake of The Prisoner. considering of that established pedigree, I am incredibly excited to take in that AMC is developing a series based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars novel. With Terry Goodkind’s The Sword of Truth series already coming to television, it looks like someone in TV land has been raiding my library. Oh there are so many more good sci-fi and fantasy series to develop. Feel free to stop
The essay indicates the series is based on Robinson’s 1982 novel of the same name, but I hope they take it a step further and look to his expanded Mars trilogy from the latter ’90s. That way they can have several seasons of stories to tell. I guess, though, with the bigger story covering a couple of centuries there could be some casting problems. Hell, overtake the entire cast every few seasons. ER does it and it’s been on the air for nearly fifteen years.
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