Wild Cards Series in Development

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Over at “Not a Blog”, George R.R. Martin has some exciting news for fans of the <em>Wild Cards</em> series: Universal Cable Productions (the studio behind shows like <em>Mr. Robot</em>, <em>The Magicians</em>, <em>Battlestar Galactica</em>, and more) has <a href=“http://grrm.livejournal.com/496792.html”>acquired the rights</a> to adapting the series to television. Development work begins immediately, with Melinda M. Snodgrass (an originator of the <em>Wild Cards</em> series, and GRRM’s right-hand so to speak) attached to executive produce alongside Gregory Noveck.

Interestingly, GRRM notes that due to his development deal with HBO, he will not be working on the series.Of course, he cautions that as with all things, development is never certain to produce a series. Finally, Martin notes that he’s pretty sure that no matter when the series takes place, if it goes forward Croyd Crenson (“The Sleeper”, a beloved character created by the late, great Roger Zelazny) will almost certainly make an appearance.

Finally, it seems that there’s some fluidity in what the potential series will draw on from the many, many novels spanning decades. Martin asks fans to share their thoughts of which characters they’d like to see on the screen in the <a href=“http://grrm.livejournal.com/496792.html”>comments section</a> of his post.

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