“He says that he heard they were making this show and he was like, ‘How can they do that? I haven’t given them the rights,'” Kirtley says. Martin was barely involved with the show.
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley had high hopes for Nightflyers, but was disappointed to learn that George R.
“I felt like they watched a lot of science fiction movies and TV and said, ‘Oh, that would be cool, that would be cool, that would be cool.’ But it never really cohered into a solid narrative.” “To me it just felt like someone was unfamiliar with the tropes of science fiction,” he says. Mike Cahill will direct the pilot.Science fiction author Matthew Kressel notes that Nightflyers never really moves beyond recycling familiar elements from better movies and TV shows. Andrew McCarthy will be a producer-director on the project. Robert Jaffe, who penned the feature film based on Martin’s novel, is set as a producer, too. Neuhauser of Lloyd Ivan Miller Productions. Smith) and Doug Liman ( Suits) Alison Rosenzweig and Michael Gaeta ( Jacob’s Ladder) of Gaeta Rosenzweig Films and Lloyd Ivan Miller and Alice P. The cast was formally announced in January along with the official pickup, which is when Cerone was brought in as showrunner.īuhler ( Jacob’s Ladder) penned the script and executive produces the UCP drama alongside Hypnotic’s Gene Klein ( Suits), David Bartis ( Mr. The series was fast-tracked after being put in development in May, picked up to pilot in June with Netflix boarding in September, helping to get the ambitious drama picked up to series. The Ireland-produced drama also received financial support from the government of Ireland through the minister for culture, heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Irish Film Board.
Netflix’s involvement has helped the studio offset the costs associated with producing the ambitious space-set series. Gretchen Mol ( Boardwalk Empire) stars in the series, with Netflix having first-run rights to the show outside of the U.S.
12 Monkeys showrunner Terry Matalas, who has the final season of the Syfy drama coming up this year, was brought in briefly to consult on the series.Įarly in the process, Syfy brought in Netflix as a co-producer on what sources say is the most expensive drama the NBCUniversal-owned cable network has ever developed. 'Chucky,' 'Reginald the Vampire' Renewed at SyfyĮxec producer Jeff Buhler, who penned the script to bring Nightflyersto TV, will take over as showrunner after Daniel Cerone exited the drama.
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