Producers Ilene Kahn Power and Elizabeth Stanley have secured the rights to Marion Zimmer Bradleys’ Darkover series and developing a television series based on the books.
The series would be based on Bradley’s 20 books, some of which detail the colonization on a new planet where the inhabitants begin their own species.
“The novels have a huge fan following throughout the science fiction and fantasy communities internationally and Marion Zimmer Bradley was an inspiration to and a nurturer of many notable speculative fiction writers,” said Kahn Power.
Bradley’s estate first believed the “Darkover” books would best be adapted as a theatrical film, but Kahn Power and Stanley convinced the estate that TV was a more viable option.
The producers have pitched the series to one cable outlet and are reportedly talking to several other networks about the potential series.
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