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Amazon Studios today announced it has acquired the global television rights to the Culture’s first novel Consider Phlebas. The famed space opera by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks features Banks’ fictional interstellar utopian society, the Culture. The series will be adapted by Dennis Kelly (Utopia, Matilda) with Plan B Entertainment (World War Z, 12 Years a Slave, The Big Short, Moonlight, Feud) slated to produce and the Estate of Iain Banks attached as Executive Producer.
They’re actually bringing a space opera to the screen.
I’ve always thought the Culture series, or the Nights Dawn trilogy should be made into a movie, though they’d be 50 hours long. Seems someone else thought so to.
I wonder if they will be able to adapt it well enough or not?