George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards Series Headed to TV

LOS ANGELES: Universal Cable Productions (UCP) has acquired the rights to adapt George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series of anthologies and mosaic novels for TV.

The first volume of the Wild Cards series, which comes from the Game of Thrones author, was published in 1986. Melinda M. Snodgrass, Martin’s assistant editor on Wild Cards, will serve as an executive producer on the project, together with Gregory Noveck of RED, Slow Learner and SyFy Films.

Martin, who announced the news on his LiveJournal page, will not be working on the series, as his development deal is exclusive to HBO. He wrote: “Which stories will be adapted? Which characters will be featured? Hard to say at this early stage…. Which ones do you want to see?…. I am sure that Melinda and Gregory and UPC will be listening.”