http://deadline.com/2015/01/j-michael-straczynski-red-mars-series-spike-1201354875/
Was interested before, very interested now.
Was interested before, very interested now.
JMS to write Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy tv series
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I'm definitely in/ Don't know a thing about the Source Material, but, Babylon 5 is my all time favorite Series, so, I'm always interested in JMS. I also, seem to recall there was some excitement about the possibility of this Series a few years back with someone else writing it? Hard Scifi definitely sounds cool
I am curious to see what JMS does with the material. I'm also looking forward to seeing "Sense8." However, my love of JMS's writing has waned over the years, which began during his run on the regular Superman comic series.
They're very good.
That's a swathing generalization of liberals.
No. Liberals (in the conventional American sense of the world) are still capitalists. They may be compared to European-style social democrats insofar as they would like to see capitalism tempered by socialist-style programs to curb its worst excesses, but the basic economic system they favor remains capitalism--they still favor private, individual ownership of the means of production. Socialists, by contrast, want communal ownership of the means of production.
To make a comparison: Liberals would want Mars to be like Scandinavia. Socialists would want Mars to be like a country that has never existed in real life.
Excellent point.
I'm very happy by this news. Red Mars is one of the finest science-fiction novels I've ever read (the rest of the trilogy is pretty good, too) and I think JMS is a good fit for density of Red Mars' narrative. I'm even more excited about this series and I didn't think that was possible.
And we have a full series order - coming Jan 2017!
Spike Gives Straight-to-Series Order to ‘Red Mars’
JMS to showrun and write over half of it, from his comments on social media, with the ten episodes ordered to be set within the scope of the first book (it's designed as an ongoing rather than a mini).
No word on the casting as yet.
Spike Gives Straight-to-Series Order to ‘Red Mars’
JMS to showrun and write over half of it, from his comments on social media, with the ten episodes ordered to be set within the scope of the first book (it's designed as an ongoing rather than a mini).
No word on the casting as yet.
A writer can explore a philosophy they don't necessarily agree with. For instance, Mal Reynolds of Firefly had a libertarian point of view that Joss Whedon doesn't share, and Whedon has said that he probably wouldn't get along with Mal. Not all writing is polemic; sometimes it's just about exploring interesting characters and ideas.
I think there are enough different points of view among the characters of the Mars trilogy that the show could include them all without taking a specific side.
I think there are enough different points of view among the characters of the Mars trilogy that the show could include them all without taking a specific side.
So is jms Still doing Sense8? I didn't watch much of it, but it was renewed..?
Great fan of his storytelling, not so much of his writing. Hoping for the best; Red Mars was fantastic.
Mark
Great fan of his storytelling, not so much of his writing. Hoping for the best; Red Mars was fantastic.
Mark
Yes, he and the W's started writing season two in late August or early September. Don't know if it's complete yet. A recent interview with the season one cinematographer said they were looking at starting shooting in March.
I loved Sense8 a lot. Can't wait for season two!
Jan
Well, I'm roughly halfway through Blue Mars, the final volume now, and I feel like it actually should take a side. The Mars trilogy, as a narrative, is pretty definitive in its depiction of corporatism as oppressive and of a form of ecology-based market socialism as morally superior. The narrative very clearly endorses the system, and this is illustrated most clearly
at the Constitutional Convention, when Vlad defeats Jackie and her allies when they argue for Martian capitalism
You're quite right to note that a writer can write, even very passionately, from the POV of characters whose politics they disagree with; Firefly does have a strong libertarian bent that doesn't jive with Whedon's more liberal politics.
The reason I wonder with JMS is that, well, I think he often is polemic. Babylon 5's villains could occasionally be political strawmen, frankly, and JMS loves his speechification. Add to this the very simple fact that a large corporation is of course paying for the whole show. So I do wonder if he's going to write the adaptation from the same anticapitalist, market socialist perspective that the books are written from.
Not sure I get the objections that JMS might not be "anti corporation" enough to write this. In B5 the mega-corporations played a minor but important role in the Earth Alliance story arc and it wasn't a positive one. IPX was as much to blame for waking the Shadows early as Department Sigma. Edgars Industries tried to engineer a plague that would either wipe-out or enslave all human telepaths to whomever held the patent on the antidote, to say nothing of claiming to be able to puppet the previous administrations and that it's only because Clark went full fascist dictator that he slipped their corporate leash.
