Altered carbon será una serie de Netflix

En io9 se hacen eco de una noticia muy interesante. Netflix adaptará la novela Altered Carbon de Richard Morgan.

La cadena norteamericana ha comprado los derechos para crear una serie de 10 capítulos basada en esta novela cyberpunk, publicada en España como Carbono Alterado.

La escritora y productora Laeta Kalodrigis afirmó:

“Altered Carbon is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there. A dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.”

Libro sobre Powers

powersDe la existosa serie Powers ya conocíamos su adaptación a la televisión, pero ahora su guionista Brian Michael Bendis, en colaboración con Neil Kleid ha escrito un libro sobre los orígenes de Deena, la protagonista femenina.

Aquí os dejo la nota de prensa:

Ever since she could walk, Homicide Detective Deena Pilgrim followed in her father’s footsteps. A man with a badge, Waldo Pilgrim surrounded himself with what Deena believed to be the cream of the crop when it came to serving and protecting. These days, Deena won’t discuss her father or the life she left behind in Atlanta years ago, a life before she partnered with Christian Walker to investigate homicide cases in a city where perps and victims boast incredible, dangerous powers. Now, nearly a decade of bringing Powers to justice has broken down Deena’s resolve, along with the walls she erected long ago to protect herself from prying eyes. Walls that kept her from a past best left alone, and from those determined to get close and bring horrible, heartbreaking memories to the surface once more.

But when a cold case reopens a series of unsolved murders that point back to Deena’s family tree, she is unavoidably reacquainted with a former boyfriend with ties to both sets of killings, along with her sordid past. Forced to question the choices, decisions, and steps she’s taken in life, love, and career—including her long-standing partnership with Walker, a former Power whose secret history intersects with Deena’s own—Detective Deena Pilgrim must bring a killer to justice and, in doing so, hopefully come to terms with the kind of cop she wants to be . . . assuming that she wants to continue being a cop at all.

Written by Powers cocreator Brian Michael Bendis and novelist Neil Kleid, The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim is the first-ever prose story set in the world of the award-winning, critically acclaimed comic book series by Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. Powers tells the stories of human police officers attempting to solve crimes in a world inhabited by superheroes and supervillains. In January 2015, the Playstation Network debuted it as its first-ever hour-long scripted programming, featuring characters and plots from the comic book series.

The magicians se emitirá en Syfy España

Según la propia web de Syfy, estrenará a principios del año que viene la serie The magicians, basada en los libros de Lev Grossman.

Como reza la nota de prensa:

The Magicians está basada en el exitoso libro de Lev Grossman en el que gira en torno a un grupo de veinteañeros que viven en Nueva York y mientras estudian lo que es la magia descubren que la fantasía que leen los niños es demasiado real y representa un grave peligro para la humanidad.

La serie cuenta con un reparto formado por Jason Ralph, Arjun Gupta, Olivia Taylor Dudley y Summer Bishil, entre otros.

Y : The Last Man será una serie de televisión

Antes de la exitosa Saga, uno de los trabajos más conocidos de Brian K. Vaughan fue Y : The Last Man, donde nos narraba las peripecias de Yorick y su mono, los únicos machos que sobreviven en el mundo.

Estos cómics se van a convertir en una serie de televisión, según leemos aquí, siguiendo la tendencia actual de adaptar todo lo adaptable y lo que no, también.

La serie será producida por FX y FX Productions.

Luna será una serie de TV

Acabamos de saber que Luna, de Ian McDonald, será adaptada para la televisión.

Shane Brennan (NCIS) escribirá la adaptación del nuevo libro de Ian McDonald, situado en el mismo mundo que el estupendo relato “The Fifth Dragon”.

Os adjunto un extracto de la nota de prensa.

Luna is set in the year 2110 on the moon, which over the previous 60 years has been colonized and industrialized. It is controlled by five powerful, highly competitive dynastic corporate families (known as the Five Dragons) who run their various business enterprises with an iron fist in a near-feudal society. The moon, under the control of the Five Dragons, is a lucrative source of valuable resources such as Helium-3, carbon, water ice and rare metals, which are exported back to Earth for huge profits.

Forty years ago, Adriana wrested control of the moon’s lucrative Helium-3 industry from the powerful Mackenzie Metal corporation. Now, in the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana’s five children must defend their mother’s empire from her many enemies… and each other.

The city and the city será una serie de TV

La BBC ha anunciado que adaptará la obra de China Miéville The city and the city, como una miniserie de cuatro capítulos.

The city and the city es considerada una de las obras más accesibles del autor, en un escenario donde dos ciudades comparten el mismo espacio físico.

Los productores han afirmado:

“We are thrilled to be bringing China’s dazzlingly inventive novel to BBC Two. It’s a 21st Century classic – a truly thrilling and imaginative work which asks big questions about how we perceive the world and how we interact with each other.”

No hay fecha confirmada, así que la miniserie se espera para finales del año que viene o principios del siguiente.

Adaptación de Uprooted

Según hemos podido saber gracias a The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros se ha hecho con los derechos para la película del nuevo libro de Naomi Novak, Uprooted. En la producción también intervendrá Ellen DeGeneres, más conocida por su labor como presentadora.

Aquí os pongo una pequeña sinopsis de Uprooted:

The plot centers on a young woman named Agnieszka, who lives near the border of an evil wood, with only a wizard named Dragon who seems to keep the danger at bay. The price for the man’s protection is that a woman from the village is sent to serve him for 10 years, and to everyone’s surprise, the rather plain Agnieszka is selected. Thus the adventurous journey begins.