{"id":1395,"date":"2008-11-10T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T11:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2008-11-07T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T17:23:32","slug":"red-mars-coming-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Red Mars Coming to TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nailing the early 60s milieu of the outrageously good dramatic series &#8220;Mad Men&#8221;,\u00a0 AMC is ready to try its hand at a more technically challenging setting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Locus &#8211; November 2008:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s RED MARS is being developed as a TV series for AMC with executive producer Jonathon Hensleigh.\u00a0 Ralph Vicinanza, Vince Gerardis, and Eli Kirschner of Created By will co-produce.\u00a0 Other projects upcoming from AMC include a remake of &#8217;60s series &#8220;The Prisoner&#8221;, and an adaptation of Glen David Gold&#8217;s &#8220;Carter Beats The Devil&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although RED MARS is a densely technical novel, if you strip away most of the info-dumps and concentrate on character and setting, a well written adaptation might work fairly well.\u00a0 With three series under its belt, AMC appears committed to high quality original programming.\u00a0 Of all the places a project like this could have ended up, I&#8217;m glad it landed there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nailing the early 60s milieu of the outrageously good dramatic series &#8220;Mad Men&#8221;,\u00a0 AMC is ready to try its hand at a more technically challenging setting.\u00a0 From Locus &#8211; November 2008:\u00a0 Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s RED MARS is being developed as a TV series for AMC with executive producer Jonathon Hensleigh.\u00a0 Ralph Vicinanza, Vince Gerardis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}