Skydance Television ( Manhattan, Grace and Frankie) came on board as studio, with the company’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross executive producing. Michael Straczynski was then brought in to write and executive produce the adaptation. The Red Mars TV series, named after the first book in the trilogy, had been on fast-track development at Spike since the network took in the project last fall with HBO’s Game Of Thrones co-executive producer Vince Gerardis as executive producer and Robinson as consultant. The network has changed course, going in a completely new direction - from a family drama set against the black-market body-part trade ( Harvest) to a hard sci-fi series set in space ( Red Mars). That distinction was originally supposed to go to the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Harvest, ordered to series in August, but that series recently fell through, with Spike brass going back to the drawing board. Red Mars would be Spike TV’s first drama series in a decade. About In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanitys struggle to survive at its farthest frontier. An additional collection of short stories was published as The Martians (1999). Spike TV has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Red Mars, a scripted drama based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s best-selling “hard” science-fiction trilogy about the colonization and terraforming transformation of Mars into a place where humans can live sustainably. The novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996).

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