{"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&#8217;s &#8220;Martian Chronicles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MartianChronicles1958.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13574\" title=\"MartianChronicles1958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MartianChronicles1958-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MartianChronicles1958-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/MartianChronicles1958.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Paramount has picked up the film rights to Ray Bradbury&#8217;s seminal science-fiction short story collection <em>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&#8217;s indigenous inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I am intrigued by Paramount&#8217;s acquisition. Recently the studio ditched their long in-development adaptation of Frank Herbert&#8217;s classic novel <em>Dune<\/em>. It&#8217;s looking like they want to stay in the literary science-fiction business, though.<\/p>\n<p>But adappting a series of short stories that are only thinly linked can be tricky. <em>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&#8217;s an assessment that Bradbury shared evidently.<\/p>\n<p>Further troubling news is that the only person so far attached to the film is producer John\u00a0 Davis, whose credits include the recent <strong>Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/strong>, <strong>Marmaduke <\/strong>and <strong>Predators<\/strong>. Suffice it to say that I don&#8217;t have much confidence in the project right now.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/ray-bradburys-martian-chronicles-be-177463\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">the studio has picked up the film rights to the classic short story collection.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/paramount-buys-rights-to-bradburys-martian-chronicles\/\" title=\"Paramount Buys Rights To Bradbury&#8217;s &#8220;Martian Chronicles&#8221;\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3645,3644],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ray-bradbury","9":"tag-the-martian-chronicles"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13573"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}