Author Topic: Mars Trilogy being made into TV series (Red Mars, with JMS on Spike TV) (Read 2355 times)

GregA · « **on:** 12/08/2015 05:08 am »

Spike TV has announced they'll do a Red Mars series, using JMS (who did Sense8, Babylon 5, Thor...)

10x 1hr episodes to start

JMS is great at long story arcs, so I have high hopes!

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/red-mars-spike-series-order-1201656112/

Jarnis · « **Reply #1 on:** 12/08/2015 06:08 am »

Cautiously optimistic.

Hope they'll have an actual budget and hope it will be free of network meddling (this being SpikeTV, odds of this are non-zero)

Archibald · « **Reply #2 on:** 12/08/2015 11:38 am »

Back in 2000 there were rumours James Cameron may adapt the Mars trilogy into movies. The idea went nowhere and instead was Avatar (and its very lame scenario)

WBY1984 · « **Reply #3 on:** 12/08/2015 11:59 am »

Oh my... this could be amazing. JMS is a good choice for this, Babylon 5 covered similar issues during its run. The Mars trilogy easily makes it into my top ten list of books, so I can't wait to see how this turns out.

Prober · « **Reply #4 on:** 12/10/2015 02:02 am »

Quote from: Jarnis on 12/08/2015 06:08 am

Cautiously optimistic.

Hope they'll have an actual budget and hope it will be free of network meddling (this being SpikeTV, odds of this are non-zero)

If the network can keep out of it....

“Sense8” co-creator J. Michael Straczynski will serve as writer, exec producer and showrunner on “Red Mars.”

I trust Straczynski when he has a free hand in the writing. B5 still to this day has some of the best writing.

Dalhousie · « **Reply #5 on:** 12/31/2015 03:33 am »

The only think I liked about these book was Peter Elson's cover art. I'll probably give the series a miss. I would watch in preference to the forthcoming blockbuster the Hagiography of Elon Musk