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Spike TV Is Turning Red Mars Into a TV Series (arstechnica.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the hat-tip-to-andy-weir dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Kim Stanley Robinson's popular trilogy Red/Green/Blue Mars is going to see its first book turn into a TV series produced by Spike TV and is slated for release in 2017. The episodes will be an hour long, and their writing will be led by J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon-5. According to Variety, "the series will follow the first settlers charged with terraforming a mysterious planet, all of whom have competed to be a part of the mission."

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  1. Gonna need some hollywood magic by Nikkos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The books were interesting, but pretty boring. Very slow moving.

    1. Re:Gonna need some hollywood magic by jlv · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I didn't find them slow at all. However, I would have loved to see real 2nd and 3rd generation characters, rather than inventing life-extension and keeping the same old group around.

  2. Spoiler alert by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kim Stanley Robinson's popular trilogy Red/Green/Blue Mars

    According to Variety, "the series will follow the first settlers charged with terraforming a mysterious planet

    Spoiler alert: it's Mars.

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