Posted on 08/05/2014 1:01:24 PM PDT by jalisco555
The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has put into development Ghost Brigades, a drama based on John Scalzi's Hugo-nominated Old Man's War universe book series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The NeverEnding Story's Wolfgang Petersen will oversee development on the project alongside Scott Stuber (Safe House), with Jake Thornton and Ben Lustig (Winter's Knight) on board to pen the first script. The drama hails from Universal Cable Productions, Petersen's Radiant Productions and Stuber's Bluegrass Films.
Ghost Brigades follows John Perry, who at 75 enlists in the Colonial Defense Force to fight a centuries-long war for man's expansion into the cosmos. Technology allows experiences and consciousness to be transplanted into younger bodies that are outfitted to endure the harsher rigors of war in space. However, soon after John arrives, he finds himself involved with a mysterious woman, and at the same time, at the center of an unraveling conspiracy involving an elite fighting force known as the Ghost Brigades.
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All new literature borrows from the past.
Neither Foundation nor Lazarus Long are being optioned for TV so that is not an option.
BTW John Scalzi acknowledges both Azimov and Heinlein as inspiration.
Darn, I was sure that would be the “modern” twist ending, and then the author would moralize about how evil we all were by being shocked by the scenario.
Maybe I should write that story, the lefties would slop it up.
Ping
A liberal acknowledging Heinlein? He must of took “stranger in a strange land” as hippy succor.
He has said Orson Scott Card is his favorite author.
He called Card’s ability to retell Ender’s Game story through the eyes of a second character,Bean, in Ender’s Shadow truly masterful. He did it in new interesting ways that simply did not regurgitate the first novel.
Not just Larry: most of the Baen stable of authors are conservatives.
The obvious examples:
John Ringo
Ton Kratman
Sarah Hoyt
and Michael Z. “Mad Mike” Williamson is a small-l libertarian and RKBA enthusiast. . .
Also, Baen recently signed Brad Torgersen: if you haven’t read him, you’re in for a treat. . .
Don't give up hope yet.
I was pretty impressed (negatively) at how they brought Heinlein's "line marriage" concept into the thinly veiled Mormon universe of Battlestar's "Caprica."
Kind of like my experience with Orsen Card and the "Ender's Game" series. Gave up on the third one.
Dunno why writers go soft and drifty like that. Even Heinlein was bad about that.
Sadly, I can not agree. The only appreciable difference I could find in "Zoe's Tale" was a new slate of one-liners.
Two weekends ago I read “Agent to the Stars”’ and loved it. Just reserved “”Old Man’s War” from the library, can’t wait to read that.
Not even close...
I have never read that who you speak of. I am behind on my SciFi reading about 30-40 years, though at one time that is all I read.
I did see Enders game. Probably the worst tripe of seen in a few years.
I liked the continuing adventures of Lazarus Long. But I can see where it got a bit soft. Now the foundation trilogy by Azimov was great.... But the later # 4 and 5 were way poor. And AC Clarke squeezed a drop too much from Rama, I do believe.
They ought to start with Old Man’s War, though.
I loved Time Enough for Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Heinlein.
Ender’s Game is a fantastic book.
Required reading at the US Naval Academy.
It is about the isolation of military command and how Ender deals with it. At the top of military command you have subordinates below and political leadership above but no real colleagues you can discuss things with.
Ender’s Game the movie sucked big time.
They only took a few action sequences from the book and strung them together with sparse dialogue.
Tough to get all that story line into 2 plus hours. Would have done much better as a TV series on cable.
BTW Orson Scott Card has said so called “gay marriage” is an intrinsic evil and any government that supports it is his enemy.
They are starting at the beginning.
They called it “Ghost Brigades” because that test better with 18-49 year olds than “Old Man’s War.” It is just marketing. It is sexier.
Then if they do it justice, it will be a great movie.
... and Tom Kratman and John Ringo.
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