.... or "How to Procrastinate and Not Finish Your Opus"
So George RR Martin has taken his longest running property, Wild Cards, a series of books, comics and games, running since 1986, and has convinced Universal Cable Productions to put it out as a TV show.
I've never read the series, or anything to do with it, but Martin describes it as "The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an unsuspecting Earth. Of those infected, 90 percent died horribly, drawing the black queen, 9 percent were twisted and deformed into jokers, while a lucky 1 percent became blessed with extraordinary and unpredictable powers and became aces. The world was never the same.”
He has an old writing partner, Melinda Snodgrass (who wrote some of the Wild Cards books), on-board Exec Producing along with Gregory Noveck.
Now, I'm down with some more Martin on screen, but my concern is Martin loves to promote, tour and talk about his productions and, right now, the completely selfish part of me wants him to focus on finishing A Song of Ice and Fire before I die. Martin in fact stepped away from GoT after season 4 to refocus his efforts on the books, but going by current interviews, he is still struggling wrapping up Winds of Winter.
So, oddly, my enthusiasm for this is inversely proportional to the volume of GRRM's involvement. Typically, the more a creator is involved in an adaptation of their work, the more interested I become. Yet, in this case, I'm all for letting others to continue to play in his sandbox, so he can focus on sitting in the corner and completing his massive sandcastle.
With Snodgrass at the helm this could be interesting as over 30 people have contributed to the world building so far. It would be fascinating if there was no specific delineated writing team, but these contributors (under Snodgrass' direction) revisiting, revising and forwarding their work on the series previously. There have been some strong contributors who would be fun to see bring their work to the screen
Snodgrass herself was one of the main editors of the series and, as many of you may recall, was a contributor to TNG (main writing room staff in S2-3) - some times brilliant, some times... not so much:
The High Ground - interesting if a little heavy handed
The Ensigns of Command - Fair
Up the Long Ladder - oh dear
Pen Pals - bit of a soft spot here
The Measure of a Man - classic
She also wrote and produced on Profiler and Odyssey 5, but nothing since, focusing on her Novel career.
Anyone care?
Edited for Source: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/07/george-rr-martin-wild-cards
Hugo - tell me, tell me, tell me
So George RR Martin has taken his longest running property, Wild Cards, a series of books, comics and games, running since 1986, and has convinced Universal Cable Productions to put it out as a TV show.
I've never read the series, or anything to do with it, but Martin describes it as "The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an unsuspecting Earth. Of those infected, 90 percent died horribly, drawing the black queen, 9 percent were twisted and deformed into jokers, while a lucky 1 percent became blessed with extraordinary and unpredictable powers and became aces. The world was never the same.”
He has an old writing partner, Melinda Snodgrass (who wrote some of the Wild Cards books), on-board Exec Producing along with Gregory Noveck.
Now, I'm down with some more Martin on screen, but my concern is Martin loves to promote, tour and talk about his productions and, right now, the completely selfish part of me wants him to focus on finishing A Song of Ice and Fire before I die. Martin in fact stepped away from GoT after season 4 to refocus his efforts on the books, but going by current interviews, he is still struggling wrapping up Winds of Winter.
So, oddly, my enthusiasm for this is inversely proportional to the volume of GRRM's involvement. Typically, the more a creator is involved in an adaptation of their work, the more interested I become. Yet, in this case, I'm all for letting others to continue to play in his sandbox, so he can focus on sitting in the corner and completing his massive sandcastle.
With Snodgrass at the helm this could be interesting as over 30 people have contributed to the world building so far. It would be fascinating if there was no specific delineated writing team, but these contributors (under Snodgrass' direction) revisiting, revising and forwarding their work on the series previously. There have been some strong contributors who would be fun to see bring their work to the screen
Snodgrass herself was one of the main editors of the series and, as many of you may recall, was a contributor to TNG (main writing room staff in S2-3) - some times brilliant, some times... not so much:
The High Ground - interesting if a little heavy handed
The Ensigns of Command - Fair
Up the Long Ladder - oh dear
Pen Pals - bit of a soft spot here
The Measure of a Man - classic
She also wrote and produced on Profiler and Odyssey 5, but nothing since, focusing on her Novel career.
Anyone care?
Edited for Source: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/07/george-rr-martin-wild-cards
Hugo - tell me, tell me, tell me
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