Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries

Snaller writes "The Sci Fi Channel has listed its programming for the upcomming year, it includes the Farscape miniseries already mentioned by Slashdot, it also includes a miniseries based the legendary scifi story by Larry Niven: Ringworld. In the far future 4 travelers crash on a ring around a sun in a distant system. Shall be interesting to see how they depict the Puppeteers."

Comments

Wanna see a puppeteer?

[Mikey-San]

Well, a rendition of one, anyway:

http://students.biology.lsa.umich.edu/bio208_11/ br ain.html

The image is taken from this book, which is definitely teh awesome:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/08 94 803247/002-9348466-3390413?v=glance

You missed the best Puppeteer image:

[AtariAmarok]

Please see this one.

Apparently, a pair of ostriches. But.... maybe not.

[SPOILERS] Questions...

[TheFrood]

I'm wondering exactly how much material from the books they're going to include.

The original Ringworld book doesn't really end with a tense climax. It's a satisfying ending for a book, but I think it would fall a bit flat in a movie/miniseries.

Ringworld Engineers ends with a good fight scene, but including that would mean they'd have to explain Pak Protectors and a lot of other things. I don't think that much material can be adequately handled in a four-hour miniseries.

Ringworld Throne just wasn't very good at all, so let's not go there.

And how faithful will they be to the books? Will they have the "invulnerable" General Products hull? Will they have the Slaver shotgun? Will they include the Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds?

This has so much potential to be great or awful.

TheFrood