I use Survivors – itself a remake of a 1970s series – as an example, but the post-apocalyptic sections of Atwood's books have many precursors, from Mad Max to The Omega Man and 28 Days Later. A mad scientist working for an evil corporation releases a virus that wipes out most of humanity the survivors must scrape a living from the ruins of industrial civilisation, fighting against feral gangs and sometimes each other. It is a peculiarity – a series of books written by a wonderful and justly venerated novelist, with a generic SF plot that closely recalls, say, the unloved recent BBC1 series Survivors.
In short, there’s lots of interesting sci-fi and fantasy shows on the horizon! It’s a good time to be into this stuff.Banks's thoughts came back to me while I was reading Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, which concludes with this novel. Oh, and did I mention that Dekarta keeps a quartet on gods imprisoned on Sky to use as weapons? So that’s a factor, too. Naturally, not everyone is pleased with his, most notably her cousins, who thought they were going to inherit Dekarta’s kingdom. There, she is told by her grandfather Dekarta that she is the heir to his throne, which basically means she’s in line to rule the world. It follows Yeine, the chief of the Darre people, who finds herself summoned to the floating city of Sky after the mysterious death of her mother. Westbrook Studios was founded by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, so there are some big names involved from the start.Ĭompared to MaddAddam, the Inheritance Trilogy - starting with the 2010 book The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - is far more fantasy than sci-fi.
Jemisin’s’ award-winning Inheritance Trilogy. Deadlinealso reports that Westbrook Studios is developing a TV show based on N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy is coming to TVĪnd that’s not the only influential sci-fi/fantasy story just announced for TV. And I guess Hulu is just the official home of Margaret Atwood stories now. There’s no word on when the MaddAddam show might come along, but it’s good to see ambitious stories like this getting adapted. The story takes place in a world dominated by huge corporations, where a brilliant bioengineer - that’d be Crake - conspires to create a miracle drug that will actually bring about human extinction, making way for Crake’s more peaceful group of genetically engineered humans. The first book in the MaddAddam series, 2003’s Oryx and Crake, is actually mostly concerned with what led up to the apocalypse.
Hulu, of course, is in the midst of adapting Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which is about a grim future of another sort. Deadlinereports that Hulu is adapting Canadian sci-fi icon Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy of books, about a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a pandemic. The fantasy and sci-fi TV renaissance continues apace.
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