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Is Trevor Sands the new go-to guy for science-fiction movie adapations? He's written the screenplay for Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos and the Six Million Dollar Man movie. And now he's taking on Jeff Somers' The Electric Church. More »
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Although Dan Simmons' literary-allusion-packed Hyperion novels have long been loved and critically-acclaimed, they've always seemed to resist conversion into film. Episodic, cyber-spiritual, and strange, the first novel tells the intertwined stories of several characters trying to get wishes granted by an entity called the Shrike on Hyperion, a planet full of really cool monsters and scary trees. Corporate-state weirdness and singularity manufacturing technologies provide a dreamy, far-future backdrop. Its sequel, Fall of Hyperion, is a more straightforward tale of posthuman political machinations, but no less complex. How will newly-announced writer Trevor Sands turn both books into one, coherent flick? More »
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