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2. J. Michael Straczynski Will Adapt Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars for Spike TV

It’s been a long road bringing Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) to the small screen. First it was James Cameron who held the rights, with the intention of creating a five-hour miniseries; later, Gale Ann Hurd had a similar idea, intended for Syfy. The next network to set its sights on the trilogy was AMC, back in 2008 and fresh off the start of Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

Finally, Spike TV took over the rights—and according to Deadline, they’ve signed on Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski to adapt Red Mars.

Red Mars tracks the eary colonization and terraforming of Mars, as told through the perspectives of the First Hundred who are chosen to leave behind an Earth suffering from overpopulation, ecological disasters, and the emergence of transnational corporations threatening to overthrow the world’s governments. On Mars, the First Hundred debate the ethics of terraforming, namely how much power humans should have over an entirely new planet.


http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/j-michael-straczynski-red-mars-spike-tv


Straczynski did Babylon 5 and might do the books justice. I've been waiting years for a film on this since I read the books. back then.