The Sci-Fi Channel has announced three mini-series for this year and next which will function as pilots for potential series should they draw a favourable audience. Two are based on books, one on comics: a reworking of Alice in Wonderland (yes, another one, but then Lewis Carroll is an irresistible lure to many creators), a work drawn from the late Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld books (wasn’t there already a Riverworld mini-series? I’m sure I remember watching it) and something based on the classic comic character, Lee Falk’s The Phantom, who’s never quite pulled off a really successful live action TV or film series despite being around since the first great wave of superheroes in the 30s. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
(panels from a Phantom strip by Tony DePaul and Paul Ryan, borrowed from and (c) King Features Syndicates)
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
Books, Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio