AMC is developing Red Mars!!!

[Temis the Vorta]

AND...Carter Beats the Devil! Great novel! A fantastic read! My wife will be thrilled to hear the news.

I don't know anything about that one, I just like the idea of a historical show that is pre-1950s (recent-historical time periods are overdone), but are there any sf/fantasy/supernatural elements in it?

 

[Canadave]

Here's a thought... Adrian Pasdar as Frank Chalmers? I think he could pull off the conflicted moral ambiguity needed for that character.

John Boone, though, I think would be the toughest to cast properly. He needs to be able to be both larger-than-life (since his character remains so important and revered well after his death), but we-the-audience need to be able to see that he's quite flawed and human at the same time.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Here's a thought... Adrian Pasdar as Frank Chalmers? I think he could pull off the conflicted moral ambiguity needed for that character.

Sounds good.

John Boone, though, I think would be the toughest to cast properly.

Maybe that's the role for Clancy Brown, then. Or Henry Ian Cusik.

 

[Titus Andronicus]

Wow, I'd better get to reading these books!

I always put them off, but I guess now is as good a time as any to start reading them.

 

[Canadave]

John Boone, though, I think would be the toughest to cast properly.

Maybe that's the role for Clancy Brown, then. Or Henry Ian Cusik.

I don't know Clancy Brown very well as an actor, but I can see Henry Ian Cusik doing a good job with the role. Can he pull off a midwestern accent? Not that it's critical, though, it doesn't matter if they retcon him to be Scottish.

 

[Starbreaker]

Woohoo! I need to have a reread and tackle the whole series between now and then.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Oddly, I always imagined a young, blond William Shatner as John Boone.

 

[Cain]

I love Mad Men, so I'm excited to see AMC tackle a Sci-Fi series if they bring the level of that level of craft to it. I've never read Red Mars, but I will now be reading it soon.

AND...Carter Beats the Devil! Great novel! A fantastic read! My wife will be thrilled to hear the news.

I don't know anything about that one, I just like the idea of a historical show that is pre-1950s (recent-historical time periods are overdone), but are there any sf/fantasy/supernatural elements in it?

This is a great book. There are no sf/fantasy elements. Carter is a real magician from the 20's. The book is a fictionalized account of his life. I'd be interesting to see AMC tackle this one too.

 

[wamdue]

i had an idea similar to this ages back (my idea was basically following the first generation & second generation of settlers on Mars, and the friction that develops between the two) however this book / TV series probaly covers the same ground I was thinking of.