We’re still a couple of years away from the ending of Game of Thrones, but it looks like we’ll be getting more of George R.R. Martin on television to help assuage the pain.
This weekend, the best-selling author announced that Universal Cable Productions has optioned his superhero anthology series, Wild Cards. The series, which has been published since 1987, consists (as of now) of twenty-two volumes comprised of short stories by various authors that all tie into one overall story. Martin describes the series as “as large and diverse and exciting as the comic book universes of Marvel and DC (though somewhat grittier, and considerably more realistic and more consistent).”
Martin himself has a development deal that’s exclusive to HBO, so he won’t have any direct involvement with adapting Wild Cards for television. Instead, assistant editor Melinda M. Snodgrass will take charge of the project (along with Red‘s Gregory Noveck), and she will serve as an executive producer.
Martin says that the series of books begins in 1946 “when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an unsuspecting Earth. Of those infected, 90 percent died horribly, drawing the black queen, nine percent were twisted and deformed into jokers, while a lucky one percent became blessed with extraordinary and unpredictable powers and became aces. The world was never the same.” A twenty-third volume of Wild Cards is scheduled to release later this month.
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