George R.R. Martin is getting another TV pilot
With at least one potential Game Of Thrones spin-off in sight, George R.R. Martin will be in the TV business for a while. It was only last month that Syfy picked up an adaptation of his novella, Nightflyers, which it described as a “paranormal meets space drama.” “Think The Shining in space,” bragged NBCUniversal’s Chris McCumber, though he wasn’t referring to Event Horizon (that’s what we think of, anyway). Few other details were given at the time, but a cursory search for Nightflyers reveals that it’s a nearly 40-year-old book about a team of scientists whose intergalactic voyage is upended by the ship’s computer, and the discovery of an alien species (which sounds more like “Alien meets 2001: A Space Odyssey,” but maybe that’s just the book).