Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are teaming with filmmaker Rian Johnson to tackle an adaptation of Liu Cixin‘s renowned Chinese sci-fi book The Three-Body Problem and its sequels. The series will be developed for Netflix, who announced that Benioff and Weiss will write the series alongside Alexander Woo (showrunner of AMC’s The Terror). Johnson will[…]
The X-Files has already had one revival, and now it’s getting a second, albeit in a surprising form. Fox is reportedly developing an X-Files animated comedy series titled The X-Files: Albuquerque. The series will will follow an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases that are deemed too ridiculous to merit the attention of Mulder and[…]
Former Pixar employee Colin Levy’s dystopian sci-fi short film Skywatch is being adapted for TV. Streaming service Peacock have landed the rights after a competitive bidding war, with UCP and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door set to produce. The original movie was only 10 minutes long and was written and directed by Levy. Back then, the project, funded via[…]
Seth MacFarlane may be best known for wacky comedy and talking, anthropomorphic animals, but for his next project he’s getting serious. MacFarlane signed a $200 million overall deal with NBCUniversal earlier this year, and his first series under that deal will be an epic war drama based on a series of historical novels. The show is titled The[…]
Adaptations of Twitter feeds, they’re a thing now! Later this year we’re getting a movie called Zola, based on an infamous 148-tweet Twitter thread revolving around a waitress who met a sex worker at a restaurant. And now we’re getting an show based on an entire Twitter account. Ava DuVernay will adapt the One Perfect Shot Twitter account into[…]