Syfy Adapting Futuristic Military Drama 'Ghost Brigades' (Exclusive)(John Scalzi book series)

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 8/5/2014 | Lesley Goldberg

[jalisco555]

The NBCUniversal-owned cable network has put into development Ghost Brigades, a drama based on John Scalzi's Hugo-nominated Old Man's War universe book series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The NeverEnding Story's Wolfgang Petersen will oversee development on the project alongside Scott Stuber (Safe House), with Jake Thornton and Ben Lustig (Winter's Knight) on board to pen the first script. The drama hails from Universal Cable Productions, Petersen's Radiant Productions and Stuber's Bluegrass Films.

Ghost Brigades follows John Perry, who at 75 enlists in the Colonial Defense Force to fight a centuries-long war for man's expansion into the cosmos. Technology allows experiences and consciousness to be transplanted into younger bodies that are outfitted to endure the harsher rigors of war in space. However, soon after John arrives, he finds himself involved with a mysterious woman, and at the same time, at the center of an unraveling conspiracy involving an elite fighting force known as the Ghost Brigades.

[Vaquero]

Might give it a try. Thanks

[Reaganez]

Ghost Brigades will be a TV Series.

The linked article is not very clear if it is a movie or tv series but Scalzi on his site is quite clear.

http://whatever.scalzi.com/

[Ransomed]

“At least there is Larry Correia.”

Also John C. Wright.

Freegards

[papertyger]

Ringo’s new “Dark Isles” series reads like he had a screenplay in mind!!!!!

[Eepsy]

:tries to envision Paladin of Shadows on television:

:fails:

I want a 1632 miniseries, myself....

[papertyger]

I always wonder how people write stories about characters that fight (real) oppression, use weapons, are self-disciplined, skilled, responsible, moral and ethical, yet expouse liberals ideals which are contrary to everything they have written.

It's not that hard to understand. Liberals, by nature, are despotic, though they like to think of themselves, philosophically, more as benign dictators.

As such, they have a romantic attraction to the notion of characters who are compelled, constrained, or otherwise in servitude to a doctrine, discipline, or social construct...as long as it's not them!

In short, they LOVE the idea of a world were they can play benevolent deity to a cast of rigorously structured chess pieces.