AMC Mines Red Mars for New Sci-Fi Series

By Hugh Hart October 03, 2008 | 5:19:00 PMCategories: Sci-Fi, Television

AMC is going to Mars.

Hot on the heels of its Emmy wins for Mad Men and Breaking Bad, the cable channel is making its move into sci-fi by developing a new series based on Red Mars, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Writer-producer Jonathan Hensleigh (Armageddon, Die Hard: With a Vengeance) will be in charge of adapting Kim Stanley Robinson's classic 1992 novel, which describes a team of humans as they attempt to colonize the planet.

Although the show is set in outer space, don't expect much in the way of visual effects. AMC programming exec Jeremy Elice said the show is character-driven: "It's not the spectacle of sci-fi that you typically see," he told the Reporter.

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