The Amber Chronicles — What Happened SCI FI?
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
In April 2002 the SCI FI Channel had issued a press release that gave a listing of all their ambitious miniseries projects. One of those was to be a 4-hour miniseries based on the “The Complete Amber Chronicles,” written by the late Roger Zelazny.
Since that original, one-time notice, little or nothing has been said about SCI FI’s plans for the series.
What I do know is Zelazny’s 10-part chronicle has earned a place as one of fantasy literature’s all-time classics and deserves a well intentioned miniseries or, better still, a franchise of films for the big screen created by a major film studio. If SCI FI has backed down from its proposal of 6 years ago to make the miniseries due to its inability to do the books justice, then I hail them for not slighting fans by creating a less than honorable visual rendition of the books. However, regardless of SCI FI’s reasons, I also think that fans deserve an update from the cable channel on the future of this enterprise.
So, tell us SCI FI — “What happened?”
it doesn’t have wrestling in it….. so the sci-fi channel is out.
I agree with you. If it’s worth telling us in the first place, let us know what the general deal is as it progress or not.
One of my (few) favorite series, and one of my favorite authors.
I’m wondering if the story arc would be a little too complicated to translate into film. I should say . . . to translate into film well.
If it’s like most of the Sci Fi movies, than I think it’d reek so bad Zelazny would haunt everyone who watched it. And WTF is up with wrestling?!?!? What does that have to do with Sci Fi?
And thank god they didn’t make it. The important question, though, is who has the film rights now, and what do they want for me to acquire them? Only a fan could ever do those books justice, and they need justice.