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Following
its success with last year's Frank Herbert's Dune miniseries,
the SciFi Channel is turning its attention to producing more high
profile minis. According to Variety,
the cabler has signed a deal with producers Lawrence Bender and Kevin
Brown to develop a mini-series based on the first three books of Ursula
LeGuin's Earthsea series.
The books, which are more fantasy than science fiction, were compared
to Lord of the Rings by SciFi president Bonnie Hammer. She
also compared them to Harry Potter, which seems like a stretch
to us.
SciFi's new schedule is full of such event programming, including
Taken, a 20-hour mini-series produced by Steven Spielberg (if
it's 20 hours long does it qualify as a mini-anything?), a 6-hour
Dune sequel, a 4-hour sequel to Stephen King's Firestarter,
and a 4-hour version of the Kim Stanley novel Red Mars.
According to Hammer, they are focusing on well-known source material
because that makes it easier to get foreign co-financing. |
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Today
in history... |
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68 - Roman
Emperor, Nero commits suicide at the age of 31. Initially
a popular ruler, it didn't take him long to mess things up.
Killing his mother didn't do much for his rep, either.
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