Please God no!!!!!! I love that series and I don't want SciFi coming anywhere near it.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (giving another moment to the wall...) > > Right now, I'm reading "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi. Why not adapt *that* for TV? > > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eick Adapts Children For TV > > Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he's > working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of > Men, P.D. James' SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 > film of the same name. > > "It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it > will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the > society's utter focus," Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview > at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on > March 18. "Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something > [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when > you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free > to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?" > > Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines > responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't > necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. "So it's a very > compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always > explored extremely provocatively," he said. "It's not really a war show > like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue." > > Eick is writing Children of Men now, even as he closes out SCI FI > Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica and prepares for > production on SCI FI's recently green-lighted prequel series Caprica. > Eick's Bionic, meanwhile, has been canceled by NBC. (NBC is owned by NBC > Universal, which also owns SCI FI Channel and SCIFI.COM.) --Ian Spelling > > http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=50711 > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
