According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Davis will produce the adaptation. Universal optioned the rights in 1997, but they reverted earlier this year after the studio couldn't get the project launched.
The Los Angeles Times
' 24 Frames blog first reported Davis' involvement back in June. The producer's most recent credits include “Gulliver's Travels,” “Predators” and “Marmaduke.” He began his producing career with the original “Predator” film in 1987.No writer or director has been announced.
“The Martian Chronicles” was published in 1950, collecting stories Bradbury wrote in the late 1940s. It follows the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing a troubled Earth and confronting the native population.
The collection was previously adapted into a television mini-series produced by NBC and BBC, starring Rock Hudson in the lead.
Although it remains to be seen whether Paramount will have better luck than Universal, this news coming on the heels of the Dragonflight adaptation getting a screenwriter is a good sign that Hollywood is taking a serious look at classic science fiction and fantasy.
That has to be better than yet another remake, right?
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