"children of men" coming to tv?

[GL]

this could be interesting:

12:00 AM, 21-MARCH-08

Eick Adapts Children For TV

Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he's working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of Men, P.D. James' SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film of the same name.

"It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society's utter focus," Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. "Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?"

Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. "So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively," he said. "It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue."

Eick is writing Children of Men now, even as he closes out SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica and prepares for production on SCI FI's recently green-lighted prequel series Caprica. Eick's Bionic, meanwhile, has been canceled by NBC. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCI FI Channel and SCIFI.COM.) --Ian Spelling

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[Spellbound]

Sounds interesting.

 

[tHaTeViLmOnKeY]

If this ends up happening it better be good. It's one of my favorite movies and my favorite, Crash is already getting the same treatment. I expect the best.

 

[davy]

the main character in the book is gay. i wonder if they'll include that while they're exploring the human condition.

 

[justsimon]

the main character in the book is gay. i wonder if they'll include that while they're exploring the human condition.

Theo? He was married.

 

[Glafna]

Does it matter whether or not Theo is gay?? It matters whether or not they do a good job, and if and when we're going to form an angry mob(torches and pitchforks not included unless you bring them) and string them up for doing a crappy job.

 

[GL]

well that tears it... this is another book i'm going to have to pick up.

 

[Glafna]

you sound like thats a bad thing, lol

 

[GL]

you sound like thats a bad thing, lol

oh i assure, it isn't a bad thing.

 

[davy]

Theo? He was married.

in the first chapter, he describes his attraction to his male cousin.