MARTIAN CHRONICLES

[John Johnson]

24 Frames is reporting that producer John Davis (his filmography) has optioned the film rights to the Ray Bradbury classic THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. The book is describes as follows:
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
Ray Bradbury's THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

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[Paul MacLean]

I doubt it will have the unintentional hilarity of the miniseries.

[John Johnson]

I doubt it will have the unintentional hilarity of the miniseries.

Nothing could.

[AndyDursin]

Odd, I find the book very much "un-adaptable," I don't understand why anyone would want to go that route again.

I'd prefer to see a remake of SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, which could've made for a great movie...but didn't.

[Paul MacLean]

Odd, I find the book very much "un-adaptable," I don't understand why anyone would want to go that route again.

Ray Bradbury actually said "I taped the miniseries when it was aired, but wound-up erasing it."