{"id":9045,"date":"2018-02-21T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/amazon-studios-adapt-consider-phlebas\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:16:15","slug":"amazon-studios-to-adapt-consider-phlebas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/amazon-studios-to-adapt-consider-phlebas\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Studios to Adapt\u00a0Consider Phlebas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Studios has acquired the global TV rights to <em>Consider Phlebas<\/em>, the first novel\u00a0in the Culture series.<\/p>\n<p>The Culture, a fictional interstellar utopian society from author Iain M. Banks, is being adapted for TV for the first time, headed exclusively for Prime Video. <em>Consider Phlebas<\/em> draws upon the world and mythology Banks created in the Culture, in which a highly advanced and progressive society ends up at war with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>The series will be adapted by\u00a0Dennis Kelly\u00a0(<em>Utopia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Matilda<\/em>) with Plan B Entertainment (<em>World War Z<\/em>,\u00a0<em>12 Years a Slave<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Big Short<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Moonlight<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Feud<\/em>) slated to produce and the Estate of Iain Banks attached to executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of the Culture is so rich and captivating that for years Hollywood has been trying to bring this utopian society to life on the screen,\u201d said Sharon Tal Yguado, the head of scripted series at Amazon Studios. \u201cWe are honored that we have been chosen, along with Dennis Kelly and Plan B Entertainment, to make\u00a0<em>Consider Phlebas<\/em>\u00a0into a television series we think will be loved by fans for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIain Banks has long been a hero of mine, and his innate warmth, humor and humanism shines through these novels,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cFar from being the dystopian nightmares that we are used to, Banks creates a kind of flawed paradise, a society truly worth fighting for\u2014rather than a warning from the future, his books are a beckoning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe revere the work of Iain Banks and continue to be moved by his inimitable spirit and his commitment to imagining a better future even in the darkest of times,\u201d said Plan B. \u201c<em>Consider Phlebas<\/em>, simultaneously explores the deepest questions concerning humanity and our future. We are so grateful to the Estate of Iain Banks for the opportunity to bring his work to life, and to Amazon for the scope of their ambition to building Iain\u2019s prescient world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Studios has acquired the global TV rights to Consider Phlebas, the first novel\u00a0in the Culture series.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":9046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1632,2031],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-amazon-studios","tag-plan-b-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amazon Studios to Adapt\u00a0Consider Phlebas - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/amazon-studios-to-adapt-consider-phlebas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amazon Studios to Adapt\u00a0Consider Phlebas - 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