{"id":13573,"date":"2011-04-13T07:04:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=13573"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:04:09","slug":"paramount-buys-rights-to-bradburys-martian-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/paramount-buys-rights-to-bradburys-martian-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Buys Rights To Bradbury’s “Martian Chronicles”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Paramount has picked up the film rights to Ray Bradbury’s seminal science-fiction short story collection The Martian Chronicles<\/em>. The stories contain no real recurring characters but are instead linked as a future history telling the tale of a future colonization of mars and the resistance of the planet’s indigenous inhabitants.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I am intrigued by Paramount’s acquisition. Recently the studio ditched their long in-development adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune<\/em>. It’s looking like they want to stay in the literary science-fiction business, though.<\/p>\n

But adappting a series of short stories that are only thinly linked can be tricky. The Martian Chronicles<\/em> was adapted into a three-part miniseries with Rock Hudson headlining the cast in 1979 for NBC and although I last watched in college about 20 years ago, I recall it to be fairly boring. It’s an assessment that Bradbury shared evidently.<\/p>\n

Further troubling news is that the only person so far attached to the film is producer John\u00a0 Davis, whose credits include the recent Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/strong>, Marmaduke <\/strong>and Predators<\/strong>. Suffice it to say that I don’t have much confidence in the project right now.<\/p>\n

Via Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the studio has picked up the film rights to the classic short story collection.<\/div>\n

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