{"id":5382,"date":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/mars-book-trilogy-gets-series-order-from-spike\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"mars-book-trilogy-gets-series-order-from-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/mars-book-trilogy-gets-series-order-from-spike\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Book Trilogy Gets Series Order from Spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tNEW YORK: Spike has given a straight-to-series order for an original TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson&rsquo;s award-winning <em>Mars<\/em>&nbsp;book trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Red Mars<\/em>, <em>Green Mars<\/em> and <em>Blue Mars<\/em> chronicle mankind&rsquo;s colonization and transformation of the red planet. The books have been adapted in 21 languages.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 10&#215;1-hour <em>Red Mars<\/em> series will be executive produced and written by J. Michael Straczynski, whose works include <em>Sense8<\/em>, <em>Babylon Five<\/em> and <em>Changeling<\/em>. The straight-to-series project will be executive produced by Vince Gerardis (<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, <em>Flash Forward<\/em>), who brought the project to Spike and has shepherded development, along with Skydance&rsquo;s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The heart and soul of <em>Red Mars <\/em>is about humanity,&rdquo; said Sharon Levy, the executive VP of original series at Spike. &ldquo;This group of strangers must find a way to live together and survive under the most daunting conditions mankind has ever faced to become the first living generation of martians. They will be each other&rsquo;s greatest source of strength&mdash;and if they can&rsquo;t coexist, the greatest reason for failure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We are thrilled to join forces with Spike to bring Kim Stanley Robinson&rsquo;s dynamic world of the <em>Mars<\/em> trilogy to television audiences for the first time ever, particularly in the brilliant creative voice of science-fiction legend J. Michael Straczynski,&rdquo; added Marcy Ross, the president of Skydance Television.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I look forward to being a part of bringing my long-time client&rsquo;s literary achievement to the screen,&rdquo; said Gerardis. &ldquo;Its themes are important to the future we are creating.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Spike has given a straight-to-series order for an original TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson&rsquo;s award-winning Mars&nbsp;book trilogy. 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