A classic of sci-fi literature is ready to come to the screen with the announcement that Iain M. Banks’ Tradition cycle of novels is being tailored for Amazon MGM Studios by the folks behind Nomadland and Hulu’s Interior Chinatown.
Deadline has the exclusive that Charles Yu, creator of Interior Chinatown (which he tailored from his personal novel), is writing and performing as govt producer on an adaptation of Consider Phlebas, the first ebook in the Tradition collection; Chloé Zhao, who directed the Academy Award-winning Nomadland in addition to Marvel Studios’ Eternals, can also be an govt producer, and the collection is coming by means of her manufacturing firm E book of Shadows.
The novel, first launched in 1987, is an area opera a couple of battle between the Tradition and the Iridians; when a Thoughts — a sentient AI from the Tradition — is misplaced on a distant planet, each side ship brokers to retrieve it. As you may count on, issues ensue. The ebook is the first in a collection of ten novels, which got here to an finish with 2012’s The Hydrogen Sonata, revealed a yr earlier than Banks’ demise. (The novels aren’t informed in chronological order, nonetheless; the Hydrogen Sonata truly takes place a whole lot of years earlier than the earlier novel, 2010’s Floor Element.)
The Yu/Zhao adaptation received’t be the first time an adaptation has been tried for Consider Phlebas; Amazon and Brad Pitt’s Plan B manufacturing firm had been engaged on one again in 2018 that in the end by no means made it to the screen, with Prime Video as a substitute selecting to think about numerous different style reveals, together with The Boys, The Wheel of Time, and others.