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Old 03-26-08, 02:01 PM
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CHILDREN OF MEN- The Series ?

I saw this and it excited my fancy greatly. I would love to see this show.....:
from sci-fi.com (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index...y=1&id=50711):
Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he's working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of Men, P.D. James' SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film of the same name.

"It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society's utter focus," Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. "Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?"

Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. "So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively," he said. "It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue."

Eick is writing Children of Men now, even as he closes out SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica and prepares for production on SCI FI's recently green-lighted prequel series Caprica. Eick's Bionic, meanwhile, has been canceled by NBC. (NBC is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCI FI Channel and SCIFI.COM.) --Ian Spelling

I like BG but I have never seen Bionic woman but it looked bad thats for sure and therefore I am hesitant to see what this guy could do with the show but I'd still like to see ti no matter what I guess.
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Honestly, I thought it would have worked better as a TV series than a movie when I saw it.
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I am not sold on it. I though the movie was excellent...but it could work as a miniseries.
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If the only tie to the Cuarón film is the original novel, I'm not too excited by this.
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They should have Cuaron shoot the pilot.
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Children of Men is one of the greatest films I have ever seen, so I hope they don't butcher this.

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