AncalagonTheBlack Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Shane Brennan To Adapt Ian McDonald's Sci-Fi Book 'Luna' As TV Series In a competitive bidding, NCIS: Lost Angeles showrunner Shane Brennan and CBS Television Studios have secured the rights to Luna: New Moon, the first book in an upcoming science fiction series by Ian McDonald. Brennan is set to write the adaptation. CBS Studios, where Brennan is under an overall deal, will produce with Shane Brennan Productions. Brennan and McDonald executive produces, along with Grant Anderson, who runs Shane Brennan Productions. Luna is set in the year 2110 on the moon, which over the previous 60 years has been colonized and industrialized. It is controlled by five powerful, highly competitive dynastic corporate families (known as the Five Dragons) who run their various business enterprises with an iron fist in a near-feudal society. The moon, under the control of the Five Dragons, is a lucrative source of valuable resources such as Helium-3, carbon, water ice and rare metals, which are exported back to Earth for huge profits. Forty years ago, Adriana wrested control of the moon’s lucrative Helium-3 industry from the powerful Mackenzie Metal corporation. Now, in the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana’s five children must defend their mother’s empire from her many enemies… and each other. Australia-born Brennan joined mothership series NCIS at the beginning of Season 4 in 2006, taking the reins as showrunner the following season. He created spinoff NCIS: LA and ran both series for two years before focusing his attention solely on NCIS: LA, which landed a $2 million-plus episode off-network syndication deal with USA only seven episodes into its freshman run. McDonald is an award-winning writer from Northern Ireland. Working mostly in science fiction, he’s had 18 novels and three story collections published in 23 languages. He also spent 16 years in television program development, ranging from documentary to children’s television to animation. Luna will be published September 22 by Gollancz (UK/British Commonwealth) and by Tor (U.S.). Not sure about the CSI guy as showrunner for a SF show TBH :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Well that's quick isn't it? Book 1 still to be released. Expectations for McDonald's series were already high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 This guy seems to have skipped the 10 years most writers spend working on their manuscript at Starbucks. He thought it was preferable to jump ahead to the money making stage directly. Yeah, like you said, folks can expect this space show to feel very..... PRO-FESSIONAL, with an ensemble cast that looks at each other meaningfully and often as they talk very quickly to gloss over all the facts of the alien invasion in time to solve it before the hour is up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unJon Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 This guy seems to have skipped the 10 years most writers spend working on their manuscript at Starbucks. He thought it was preferable to jump ahead to the money making stage directly. Yeah, like you said, folks can expect this space show to feel very..... PRO-FESSIONAL, with an ensemble cast that looks at each other meaningfully and often as they talk very quickly to gloss over all the facts of the alien invasion in time to solve it before the hour is up. Ian McDonald is a very renowned and prolific SFF author. Not sure what you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Ian McDonald is a very renowned and prolific SFF author. Not sure what you mean. Yeah,the guy's been writing some very good to great SFF since 1982 and has either been nominated or won almost every SFF award. SF noobs need to educate themselves :P - http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/mcdonald_ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Well that's quick isn't it? Book 1 still to be released. Expectations for McDonald's series were already high. The preview chapter he's been reading at conventions was excellent, so I'm hopeful the rest of the book will live up to it. It's impressive that the rights have been snapped up before the book has even been released but I imagine it's still a long way from being made. I remember McDonald talking a few years ago about an attempt to get [i]River of Gods[/i] filmed as a collaboration between some Indian film-makers wanting to do something other than Bollywood and a Western film company which sounded interesting, but sadly it never seemed to go anywhere. I think there was talk of a [i]Dervish House[/i] adaptation about the same time which also didn't go anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 He didn't emphasize sitting at Starbucks for a decade is what I'm saying. It's the go-to option for many writers. It'd be nice to see a non-Trek space show actually get popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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