ray bradbury's the martian chronicles the authorized adaptation

Trying to speculate where it may end up is a daunting task, as well. In 1988, however, the Soviet Armenian studio Armenfilm produced a feature film adaption called The 13th Apostle. It’s twice been optioned for feature film adaptations, once in 1960 by MGM and then again in 2011 by Paramount, but neither actually ended up being made. Several of the individual stories were also adapted for the short lived HBO anthology series, Ray Bradbury Theater. However, Bradbury was noted as saying that he had found that particular version to be “just boring”. The Martian Chronicles has previously been adapted into a mini-series by a partnership between NBC and BBC in 1979 and featured performances by Rock Hudson, Bernadette Peters, and Roddy McDowell. That date has obviously past us now, so we can safely assume it will be updated for this new adaptation as well. The book, at the time of release, took place in the then-near future, 1999. Author Ray Bradbury took these stories from the science fiction magazines of the day and wove them together with interstitial vignettes.

The book, originally published in 1950, is itself a collection of short stories that had been previously published in the late 1940s. It’s also unknown what network or streaming service this may end up on. Something similar happened with Gunn’s reboot of Starsky and Hutch for Amazon, which never materialized. RELATED: TILDA SWINTON CAST AS FEMALE LEAD OF HBO’S PARASITE SERIESĪs the series is currently only in development, it’s impossible to say whether or not it will actually go to pilot or – beyond that – be greenlit for a full season. 3, it’s hard to say where The Martian Chronicles will fit into his schedule. With James Gunn currently busy filming The Suicide Squad for DC and Warner Bros, then eventually going to work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Little information is currently known about the series outside of its status as “in development”. The series is in development at Civic Center Media, as a joint venture between UTA and Valence Media. Credit: Photo by Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9126774fb)

Ray bradbury's the martian chronicles the authorized adaptation