AMC Developing Red Mars
AMC is developing Red Mars, a series based on Kim Stanley Robinson's 1982 novel, from writer/executive producer Jonathan Hensleigh (Armageddon), according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Robinson's acclaimed book chronicles the first human colony on the Red Planet.
Hensleigh is
the writer and will executive-produce, alongside Michael Jaffe and Howard
Braunstein of Jaffe
Braunstein Entertainment and Vince Gerardis, Ralph Vicinanza and Eli Kirschner
of Created By.
AMC is no stranger to the SF arena: The network also is readying a miniseries
remake of the
1960s series The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen.