{"id":9719,"date":"2015-01-23T00:44:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9719"},"modified":"2015-01-23T00:44:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:44:23","slug":"red-mars-trilogy-tv-project-update-j-michael-straczynski-babylon-5-selected-as-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9719","title":{"rendered":"Red Mars trilogy TV project update:  J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) selected as writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Michael_Straczynski\" target=\"_d\">J. Michael Straczynski<\/a>, creator and chief writer of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babylon_5\" target=\"_d\">Babylon 5<\/a>\u00a0series, has been chosen to write the scripts for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spike TV<\/a>\u00a0serialization of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Stanley_Robinson\" target=\"_d\">Kim Stanley Robinson<\/a>&#8216;s famous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy\" target=\"_d\">Mars trilogy<\/a>\u00a0books :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/01\/j-michael-straczynski-red-mars-series-spike-1201354875\/\" target=\"_d\">\u2018Babylon 5\u2032 Creator J. Michael Straczynski To Write Spike TV Project \u2018Red Mars\u2019 &#8211;\u00a0Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The books lay out a \u00a0scenario for Mars settlement in\u00a0a realistic, hard sci-fi approach. The primary plot conflict is the battle between those who want to terraform Mars into a place safe for humans to live without protective gear and those who want Mars to remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B000QCS914&amp;asins=B000QCS914&amp;linkId=BC3CJQOTFJUZ6UZ7&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B000QCS91E&amp;asins=B000QCS91E&amp;linkId=YX6DTWPDBEKDJNWV&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00165EXI8&amp;asins=B00165EXI8&amp;linkId=EFFVLIOQOYWGJ6OE&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. Michael Straczynski, creator and chief writer of the\u00a0Babylon 5\u00a0series, has been chosen to write the scripts for the Spike TV\u00a0serialization of Kim Stanley Robinson&#8216;s famous\u00a0Mars trilogy\u00a0books :\u00a0\u2018Babylon 5\u2032 Creator J. Michael Straczynski To Write Spike TV Project \u2018Red Mars\u2019 &#8211;\u00a0Deadline. The books lay out a \u00a0scenario for Mars settlement in\u00a0a realistic, hard sci-fi approach. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Mars trilogy TV project update:  J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) selected as writer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78,38,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2wL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1768,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1768","url_meta":{"origin":9719,"position":0},"title":"TV sci-fi in a rut + More on exoplanet naming","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The creator of Babylon 5 talks about the state of TV science fiction: Babylon 5's J. 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